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Reddish, black-ringed caterpillars about 1^2 inches long, feed from June to August on Vir- 

 ginia creeper and grape. . Eight-spotted forester, Alypia octomaculata, p. 575 

 Sprawly, yellowish green beetles about ?4 inch long, swarm on rosebushes and the foliage 



of trees and shrubs Rose beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosus, p. 575 



Greenish, black-headed caterpillars about Y^ inch long, bore in the buds or web together 



leaves of roses Rose bud worm, O 1 e t h r e u t e s n i m b a t a n a, p. 576 



Yellow-headed, dark green larvae tying rose leaves together 



Rose leaf tier, Olethreutes c y a n a n a, p. 577 

 Yellowish green, brown-headed caterpillars '2 inch long occur on oak and rose 



Cenopis pettitana, p. 579 

 Cenopis r e t i c u 1 a t a na, p. 580 

 Brown headed, greenish caterpillars about |<( inch long, live in the webbed leaves of roses 

 and those of a large number of trees 



Oblique banded leaf roller, A re hips r o s a c e a n a, p. 580 

 Rose leaf folder, Archips r o s a n a, p. 581 



Insects affecting fruit of deciduous forest trees 



A curculio much resembling the plum pest, thougli larger, '4 inch long, frequently infests 

 walnuts and butternuts. . . Walnut curculio, C o n o t r a c h e 1 u s j u g 1 a n d i s, p. 581 



Conotrachelus seniculus, p. 582 

 A slender, white caterpillar about ?8 inch long, mines hickory shucks, causing them to abort 



and fall prematurely Hickory shuck worm, Enarmonia c a r y a n a, p. 583 



A weevil with a remarkably long, slender, curved beak, occurs on acorns or may be bred 

 from white, legless grubs within tliem or other nuts 



Acorn weevil, B a 1 a n i n u s n a s i c u s, p. 583 

 A similar weevil and legless grubs occur in chestnuts 



Chestnut weevils Ba Ian in us ]) r o b o s c i d e u s and B. rectus, p. 585 



Frequenters, usually injurious, of deciduous forest trees p. 588 



Frequenters, usually beneficial, of deciduous forest trees p. 603 



Plant galls and gall makers p. 615 



Brachys aerosa Melsh. 



A triangular, flattened, metallic colored beetle about ""\(, inch in length, occurs on 

 oak and elm leaves in midsummer. 



A number of examples of this species were taken on elm May 20, 1903, 

 at Poughkeepsie N. Y., where they were eating irregular, oval holes near 

 the edgfes of the leaves. 



