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Dr. Fitch states as follows in his account of this insect given in 

 liis First Report on the Insects of New York : 



The beetle makes its appearance every year early in June. * * * In the 

 course of this <ind the following month the female deposits her eggs (page 13). 



Commonly, here in Washington county, they begin to be found upon trees about 

 the 20th of June, from which time until the close of the month they appear to 

 be more numerous than they are afterward (page 17). 



In all orchards where the borer is present this measure [soap application] should 

 invariably be resorted to the latter part of May, or in more northern localities, where 

 the beetle will be somewhat later in appearance, early in June (page 22). 



Referring to Mr. Junkins' observations of the first egg deposited 

 after the middle of June, many after July 11th, and oviposition 

 contin\ied after August 7th, it would seem advisable that the use 

 of the soap application should, in Northern JSTew York, not be 

 delayed longer than the 15th of June, and should be continued 

 through the month of July, and perhaps Jater, 



Mr. Charles G. Atkins, of Eucksport, Maine, in a paper read 

 before the Maine State Poraological Society at its last annual meet- 

 ing, confirms the above observations upon the late oviposition of 

 Saperda candidcL He has found the egg-laying to begin (at his 

 farm in Kennebec county) soon after the middle of June, and to 

 continue until late in August, and had met with nnhatched eggs 

 after the 1st of September. 



Mr. Atkins offers the suggestion that relief from this apple-tree 

 borer may be better sought through remedial than preventive meas- 

 ures. With young trees having a smooth bark he would prefer 

 mounding the base to a height of six inches or more with sand, thus 

 compelling the beetle to place her eggs where they, or the young 

 larvae emerging from them and entering the bark, may easily be dis- 

 covered by proper inspection, and destroyed. {Home Farm, March 

 5, 1885.) 



The Cloveb-leaf Weevil Destroyed by a Fuxgus Attack. 



During the latter part of May, some larvte were received from 

 Dr. Sturtevant, of Geneva, N. Y., which had evidently been killed 

 by fungus attack. The larvae were found attached to, and coiled 

 around, the tips of blades of grass, dead, stiffened, shrunken, and 

 partly covered with a whitish fungus. From a careful examination 

 of the larvae, it seemed probable that they were immature forms of 

 the punctured clover-leaf weevil, Phytonomus punctatus. 



Other examples of the same larva were received from the same 

 source, on November 3d, in the same condition with those previ- 

 ously sent. Not being positive of my determination of the species, 

 request was made for living examples, to be souglrt for buried be- 

 neath the surface of the ground, or while feeding at night, but they 

 could not be obtained. Some of the material was, therefore, sent to 

 the Entomological Division of the Department of Agriculture at 

 Washington, where it was compared with alcoholic specimens, and 



