REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1901 (or 
The specimens from which the above description was drawn 
were bred from leaves of oak by Prof. Comstock, probably at 
Ithaca N. Y. and from cultivated cherry by Miss Murtfeldt in 
Missouri. Prof: Fernald states that there are no other records 
concerning this insect; and, while most of the above recorded 
injury to peach twigs may possibly be the work of the peach 
twig borer, it is certainly of interest to know that this species 
also attacks the peachtree, and further investigation may show 
that it is responsible for considerable of the injury. The one 
bred specimen pupated in a leaf. The empty pupal case 
was about 2 inch in length, light brown in color, and the 
dorsum of each of the abdominal segments bore two trans- 
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Fig. 12 Typhlocyba (sp.): aT. comes Say, female; bT. comes Say, male; ce typical form of 
T. vitifex; dlarva; epupa; fappearance of injured leaf; gcast pupal skins. (After Marlatt, 
U.S. dep’t agric. Yearbook 1895. p. 401) 
verse rows of serrations, the anterior rows being very well 
developed and consisting of from seven to 10 dark, chitinous 
teeth. The cremaster is dark brown, blunt at the extremity 
and tipped with six or eight rather stout, though small, recurved 
spines. 
Grapevine leaf hopper, Typhlocyba comes var. vitis. 
This little leaf hopper is very familiar to many grape growers, 
and during the past season it has been exceptionally abundant 
in parts of the grape-growing districts of Chautauqua county. 
The foliage in many vineyards was very seriously affected, parti- 
