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Insects on plum trees. (Country gentleman. June 9, 1881. 46: 376 23 ) 

 Notices Bibio femoratus and the plum curculio. 



Mites in clothing. (Country gentleman. June 9, 1881. 4 

 Mites in a box of clothing were probably Bryobla pratensls. 



Late insect invaders of northern New York. (Albany evening journal. 

 July i, 1881) 



Larvae collected at Potsdam have been identified as Nephelodes violans 

 Guen. [var. of N. minians Guen.] and Crambus exsiccatus Zeller [trisectas 

 Walk.]. 



Orchard caterpillar. (Country gentleman. ' July 14, 1881. 46:455 35 ) 

 Apple tree tent caterpillar, Clisiocampa amerlcana Fabr., is noticed. 



Worms on tomatoes. (Country gentleman. July 14, 1881. 



'Li<;ht brown worm or fly,' can not be named without examples of the 

 insect. 



Pear tree blight. (Middleburgh gazette. July ? 1881) 

 Pear blight is described and treatment indicated. 



Insects and fungus on quinces. (Country gentleman. Aug. 18, 1881. 



46:535 16 ) 



Quince curculio, Conotrachelus crataegi Walsh, the apple worm, Carpocapsa 

 pomonella Linn, and a fungus, RoesteHa aurantiaca [aecidial form of Gymnos- 

 porangium davipes], are noticed. 



Insect pest. Preservation of our shade trees from its ravages. (Albany 

 ' evening journal. Aug. 31, 1881) 



General account of the white marked tussock moth, Orgyia [Notolophus] 

 leucostigma. 



Insects on strawberry roots. (Country gentleman. Sep. 8, 1881. 46: 



58 3 18 ) 

 Unable to identify the insect without examples. 



Apple leaf cluster cup fungus. (Country gentleman. Sep. 8, 1881. 



46: 



Brief notice of the fungus, Oecidium pyratum Schw. [aecidial form of Gym- 

 nosporangium macropus]. 



Beetle on the tomato. (Country gentleman. Sep. 8, 1881. 46: s84 36 ) 

 Asb gray blister beetle, Epicauta cinerea Forst. is recorded on the tomato. 



Crambus vulgivagellus in northern New York. (St Lawrence republican. 

 Sep. 14, 1881) 



Notes on this species it is the depredator, not Nephelodes violans Guen. 

 [var. of JV. minians Guen.] 



