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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[April. 



The Potato Stalk Borer.— This species, Trichobaris trinotata Say, has 

 been unusually abundant in some parts of New Jersey during the season 

 of 1894. Some parts of Pennsylvania also have been troubled, and among 



them the vicinity of Germantown — the locality from which the very first 

 reports of injury from this insect were ever received as far back as the 

 days of Harris and Fitch. The insect has been much more troublesome 

 in the Western States than it has been in the East heretofore, and, curi- 



