246 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



favorite paper dressed up and, though with no intent to wrong, 

 yet edited in a way that would cause the ashes of Darwin to be- 

 come restless in their seclusion, while the author would be totally 

 unable to recognize his production. The agricultural press, 

 while affected in this way to far less degree, still offers a wide 

 field for improvement." — F. M. Webster. 



As an illustration of an article from an agricultural journal we 

 present the following, which has the remarkable distinction of 

 not having a single scientific name correct: 



"Our fruits when successfully raised are a source of consider- 

 able revenue, and the demand keeps pace with the increased 

 quantity raised. But our fruits are often seriously injured or 

 entirely destroyed by small insects. The currant is a general 

 favorite in all households is often killed by the caterpillar of 

 (Aegeria tipulafarnus) which bores into the pith of the stem, and 

 the foliage is devoured by the caterpillar of (Nemoratus grossu- 

 lasia) and if not killed by the powdered grellbone sprinkled on 

 the leaves, the crop is ruined. The gooseberry is stripped of its 

 leaves by the same greenish worm. The raspberry is often much 

 injured by a little beetle related to the common cockchafer the 

 ■(Melalanthia horticoly). Ants also are troublesome, destroying 

 the blossoms as well as the aplus. The cherry is injured by a 

 sun fly (Selandria cenasi) or a closely allied species called the 

 slug worm that eats out the parenchynia of the leaves. A beetle 

 the (Rynchites Baccies) bores into the fruit and deposits an egg 

 the grub of which spoils the fruit. The cherry fly provides for 

 the maggot by depositing the egg in the cherry. The plum crop 

 is often ruined by the plum aphis which comes in such vast num- 

 bers as to ruin both leaves and fruit. The (Laccus pessica) with 

 its sucker pumps the sap from the limbs, and the (carpacapra 

 nigricans) and a sun fly (Tonthredo Morio ) eat the fruit, and then 

 the Curenlio that little turk of which there are several species are 

 the enemies of all stone fruits, and if not fought with traps jarring 

 and the modern quite effective methods of spraying the whole 

 tree just as it is blossoming and two or three times after at inter- 

 vals of eight or ten days. The pear tree has its aphis and the 

 little beetles (Scolyus pisi Strobi) and also (phylla pivis). They 

 pierce the bark and live on the albumen. The larvae of the little 

 moth (Tinea clerkellie) eats out the parenchyme of the leaves. 

 The blossoms are rendered aborative by a grub of the beetle 



