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GRASSHOPPERS. 
Pezotettix femur-rubrum.  Acridium americanum. 
[Plate X, Fig. 1.] 
We have found the young of both the above species feeding upon 
the leaves of the strawberry in considerable numbers in Southern 
Iilinois. Mr. F. 8. Karle wrote me in July, 1882: <‘‘A few days 
ago I noticed some ‘flocks’ of young grasshoppers [probably of this 
species] that were literally eating up some strawberry plants. They 
were quite small, apparently just hatched, and there were not enough 
of them to do any serious harm, but they made a clean sweep as 
they went.” 
** By an insect rolled or folded in a leaf. 
THe Common StrawBeRRY Lear-Rouurr. 
(Phoxopteris comptana, Frol., 
= Anchylopera fragarie, Riley.) 
Order Leprpoprera. Family Tortricipm. 
(Plate VI§ Fig. 7.1 
This is by far the most destructive known enemy to the straw- 
berry, often utterly ruining the field, year after year, wherever it 
gets a foothold and is not effectively checked by artificial measures ; 
but, fortunately, although it has caused the strawberry growers of 
Central and Northern Illinois and of adjacent States the loss of 
many thousands of dollars, a mode of arresting its ravages, first 
proposed by my predecessor, Dr. Thomas, has served completely to 
check its progress and to bring it under the easy control of the 
horticulturist. It has not hitherto been reported as injurious to the 
southward, but has been regarded as a northern species. ‘This 
abundant and destructive strawberry leaf-roller, which has for 
several years been on the lists under the name of Anchylopera 
fragarie or Phoxopteris fragaria, proves to be identical with a Euro- 
pean species (originally described in 1828), which seems not to have 
been reported as feeding upon the strawberry at all in the old world; 
although, according to Prof. Fernald, it lives there upon several 
genera and species of the same family of plants as that to which 
the strawberry belongs, and also upon at least two species of 
Labiate. 
LITERATURE. 
The earliest notice of a leaf-roller of the strawberry in this country 
appeared in the ‘‘Canada Farmer” for August, 1567, and subsequent 
developments have made it likely that ours was the species mentioned. 
In the ‘“‘Prairie Farmer” for October 5 of that year, Prof. C. V. Riley 
acknowledges the receipt of strawberry leaf-rollers from Northern 
