BRAMBLE INSECTS 275 



CLASS ARACHNIDA (Spiders and their relatives) 

 Order Acarina 



Tetranychus telarius (Linn.). The Red Spider. Attacks rasp- 

 berries under glass, doubtless also in the field in dry climates, 

 as it does many other plants. 



Bryobia pratensis, Garman. The Clover Mite. Riley and Marlatt, 

 Ins. Life 3:45. Rural New-Yorker 1894: 568. On raspberries. 



CLASS MYRIAPODA (Centipedes and Millipedes) 

 Order Chilognatha 



lulus impressus, Say. Webster, Bull. O. Exp. Sta. 45:216. Ins. 

 Life 2:258. Found in raspberry fruit after being harvested. 



CLASS HEXAPODA (Insects) 



Order Orthoptera 

 FAMILY ACRIVIV&. 



Melanoplus spretus (Thomas). Comstock, Man. Ins. 110. [Calop- 

 tenus spretus, Thomas. Riley, Mo. Rep. 7:159.] Nearly omniv- 

 orous; injures blackberries more than raspberries. 



FAMILY LOCUSTID^E. 



Orchelimum glaberrimum, Burm. ,Riley, Mo. Rep. 5:123. Fruit 

 Recorder, 15:180 (1883). Webster, Bull. O. Exp. Sta. 45:205. De- 

 posits its eggs in the canes and other pithy stems. 



Order Physopoda 



Thrips tritici. Fitch, N. Y. Rep. 2:304. Lintner, Rep. N. Y. Agr. 

 Soc. 1881-82:192, Webster, Bull. O. Exp. Sta. 45:207. On flow- 

 ers of raspberry and blackberry. 



Order Hemiptera 

 FAMILY 



Nysius angustatus, Uhler. Lintner, N. Y. Rep. 5: 321. Riley, Rep. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr. 1884:315. [Nysius destructor, Riley. Nysius 

 raphanus, Howard.] On raspberry fruit ; a general feeder. 



FAMILY PENTATOMID^:. 



Cosmopepla carnifex (Fabr. ). Lintner, N. Y. Rep. 2: 144. Webster, 

 Bull. O. Exp. Sta. 45:212. [Cimex carnifex, Fabr.] On leaves 

 and stems of blackberry and potato, fruit of currant, etc. 



EuscUistus variolarius, Pal. Beauv. Townsend, Ins. Life, 2:44. 

 Reported as injuring red raspberry fruit. 



