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cattle and is certainly but little travelled, the query arises, as to 

 where these insects find a sufficiency of their necessary food. 



Oniticellus cubiensis Duval. Some years since I received 

 a single si)ecimen of this insect, from the late H. K. Morrison, 

 collected by him in Key West, Florida. This species, common in 

 the West Indies, has probably obtained a foot-hold in Southern 

 Florida and should be added to our list. The specimen men- 

 tioned above is now in Dr. Horn's cabinet. 



SOME INJURIOUS INSECTS OF THE ORCHARD 

 AND GARDEN. 



Bv Makv Trkat, Vinelani), N. J. 



Insects are everywhere and their food is almost everything 

 that one can think of in the world. But those who try to grow 

 fruits and flowers are more interested in the pernicious creatures 

 that live in (;ur orchards and gardens. In the orchard no part of 

 a tree is exempt from the attacks of the numerous and various 

 insects whose existence depends in a great measure upon our labor 

 in making the trees grow to supi^ort them. We find them feeding 

 upon the bark, others eating into the solid wn)od, and some live 

 upon the leaves and twigs, which they devour entire, while others 

 live upon the fruit and flowers, and dainty ones eat only the par- 

 enchyma, leaving the skeleton of the leaf intact, and still more 

 tiny ones find am|)le room for homes between the epidermis of the 

 leaf when they mine and make intricate roads in every direction. 

 In the garden, also, are untold numbers feeding upon our small 

 fruits and vegetables. The currant borer eats the pith of the 

 stems of our currant bushes, while the currant worm strips the 

 leaves from both gooseberry and currant bushes, and borers at- 

 tack our blackberries and raspberries. In fact, everything that we 

 attempt to grow is hedged about with foes. In this brief article I 

 can mention only a few of the most destructive that come under 

 my own observation in our home grounds. 



Every few years jmrticular kinds of insects will be very abund- 

 ant, and then for a time partly subside. Just now we are having 

 an unusual visitation of the round-headed apple tree borer. (Sa- 

 pi'Vila /n'ritfafa.) It threatens to kill our trees in spite of all our 



