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THE CURRANT STEM-GIRDLER. , 
(Phyllecus [Janus] flaviventris Fitch.) 
By C. L. MaRtatrT. 
This interesting saw-fly has again been brought to notice in Dr. 
Lintner’s recently issued Eighth Report as New York State Entomoi- 
ogist (pp. 166-168). It will be remembered that Dr. Lintner, in his 
Fourth Report, described the girdling of the tips of Currant stems by 
an unknown Hymenopterous insect in the gardens near Albany, N. Y. 
(4th Report on the Insects of New York, p. 47), and that later (INSECT 
Lirg, Vol. 111, 1891, p. 407) was published, in Extracts from Corre- 
spondence, a communication from Mr, E. W. Allis, Adrian, Mich., with 
which he transmitted for identification an insect reared from Currant 
bushes affected as described by Dr, Lintner. No difficulty was expe- 
Fig. 18.—Phyllecus flaviventris Fitch: a, female; b, lateral view of male abdomen; c, do. of female; 
d, apex of anterior tibia of female, showing serrated tibial spine—all enlarged (original). 
rienced in identifying this insect as a male of Dr. Fitch’s Janus flav. 
ventris, which he described in his Seventh Report from a captured 
specimen. In April, 1891, Mr. Allis submitted personally an affected 
twig of the Currant containing a dried larva, and bred males and 
females of this insect, donating a specimen of each of the latter to the 
Department. From these the accompanying illustration was made 
(Fig. 18). A single specimen was reared by Dr. Lintner, as reported — 
in his last communication, but was mislaid before a careful comparison 
with Fitch’s description was made, but was thought not to be the same 
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