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

 Notices Bibio femoratus and the plum curculio. 



Mites in clothing. (Country gentleman. June 9, 1881. 46:37626) 

 Mites in a box of clothiDg were probably Bryohla pratensis. 



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

 July I, 1881) 



Larvae collected at Potsdam have been identified as NepheJodes violans 

 Giien. [var. of N. mn,ians Guen.] and Crambus exsiccatus Zeller [irisectus 

 Walk.]. 



Orchard caterpillar. (Country gentleman. July 14, 1881. 46:455^5) 



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

 Worms on tomatoes. (Country gentleman. July 14, 1881. 46:45632) 



'Li^^ht brown worm or fly/ can not be named without examples of the 

 insect. 1 uo 



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'') 



Quince curculio, Conotracnelvs crataegl Walsh, the apple worm, Carpocapsa 

 pomoneUa Lmn. and a fungus, noestelia auranUaca [aecidial form of Gymnos- 

 porangnim darlpes']. 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, Orgyla INotolophus-] 

 leucostigma. x- j 



Insects on strawberry roots. (Country gentleman. Sep. 8, 1881 . 6 • 

 583'^) ' ^ ' 



Unable to ideutify the insect without examples. 



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

 46: 58322) ^ ' 



Brief notice of the fungus, Omd/ttm2>^n,taSchw. [aecidial form of Gym- 

 nosporanf/ium macropus']. 



Beetle on the tomato. (Country gentleman. Sep. 8, 1881. 46:584^5) 

 Ash gray blister beetle, Epicanto dnerea Foist, is recorded on the ton.ato. 



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

 Sep. 14, i88i) 



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

 [var. of jV. minians Guen.] 



