﻿INJURIOUS 
  INSECTS 
  

  

  Tenthredo 
  rufopectus 
  Norton 
  

  

  Red-breasted 
  saw-fly 
  

  

  Ord. 
  Hymenoptera: 
  Fam. 
  Tenthredinidae 
  

  

  Norton, 
  Edward. 
  Baston 
  journal 
  of 
  natural 
  history, 
  i860. 
  7:255- 
  

   56/* 
  no. 
  38 
  (male 
  and 
  female 
  described, 
  from 
  Conn 
  , 
  Pa.; 
  as 
  Allantus)\ 
  

   Boston 
  society 
  of 
  natural 
  history. 
  Proceedings. 
  1862. 
  9:121 
  (referred 
  

   io 
  Tenthredo) 
  \ 
  American 
  entomological 
  society. 
  Transactions. 
  1868-69. 
  

   2:237 
  (description, 
  distribution). 
  

  

  Cresson, 
  E. 
  T. 
  Synopsis 
  of 
  the 
  Hymenoptera 
  of 
  America. 
  1887. 
  

   p. 
  168 
  (reference). 
  

  

  Harrington, 
  W. 
  H. 
  Canadian 
  entomologist. 
  1890. 
  22: 
  25 
  (taken 
  

   at 
  Ottawa 
  in 
  June 
  and 
  July) 
  ; 
  Ottawa 
  naturalist. 
  1893. 
  7: 
  125 
  (taken 
  

   early 
  m 
  July) 
  ; 
  Canadian 
  entomologist. 
  1894. 
  26 
  : 
  197 
  (mention). 
  

  

  Smith, 
  J. 
  B. 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  of 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  1890. 
  p. 
  14 
  

   (listed). 
  

  

  O-^born, 
  Herbert. 
  Partial 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  animals 
  of 
  Iowa. 
  1892. 
  

   p. 
  17 
  (listed). 
  

  

  For 
  the 
  past 
  15 
  years 
  the 
  stems 
  of 
  currant 
  bushes 
  in 
  widely 
  sepa- 
  

   rated 
  localities 
  have 
  been 
  injured 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  by 
  an 
  insect 
  boring 
  in 
  the 
  

   tender 
  tips, 
  causing 
  them 
  to 
  wilt 
  or 
  lop 
  over 
  and 
  eventually 
  die. 
  It 
  was 
  

   not 
  till 
  1 
  89 
  1, 
  however, 
  that 
  the 
  author 
  of 
  the 
  mischief 
  was 
  reared 
  and 
  

   identified 
  as 
  Jaiius 
  flaviveniris 
  Fitch, 
  which 
  has 
  since 
  been 
  referred 
  by 
  

   Mr 
  A. 
  D. 
  MacGillivray 
  to 
  Janus 
  integer 
  Norton 
  [see 
  Bull. 
  126 
  Cornell 
  

   agricultural 
  experiment 
  station. 
  1897. 
  p. 
  41). 
  Up 
  to 
  the 
  present 
  year 
  

   there 
  has 
  been 
  no 
  reason 
  for 
  suspecting 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  more 
  than 
  one 
  

   insect 
  injuring 
  the 
  currant 
  stems 
  in 
  this 
  particular 
  manner. 
  

  

  New 
  currant 
  pest. 
  The 
  currant 
  twigs 
  of 
  Mr 
  Thomas 
  Tupper 
  of 
  

   Corning, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  have 
  suffered 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  from 
  the 
  currant 
  stem 
  girdler, 
  

   Janus 
  ifiteger, 
  for 
  the 
  past 
  10 
  years, 
  although 
  the 
  insect 
  was 
  not 
  identified 
  

   till 
  1891. 
  In 
  1895 
  Mr 
  Tupper 
  informed 
  me 
  of 
  his 
  finding 
  several 
  

   black 
  saw-flies 
  associated 
  with 
  the 
  currant 
  stem 
  borer, 
  which 
  he 
  thought 
  

   might 
  be 
  the 
  male 
  of 
  that 
  species. 
  Specimens 
  of 
  this 
  black 
  insect 
  were 
  

   finally 
  obtained, 
  both 
  by 
  captures 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  and 
  by 
  rearing 
  from 
  

   infested 
  twigs. 
  They 
  were 
  submitted 
  to 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  entomology, 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  department 
  of 
  agriculture, 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  identified 
  by 
  Mr 
  Mar- 
  

   latt 
  as 
  Tenthredo 
  rufopectus 
  Norton. 
  

  

  aVoliime 
  and 
  page 
  references 
  are 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  colon, 
  e. 
  g. 
  7 
  : 
  255-56 
  means 
  volume 
  7, 
  

   pages 
  255-56. 
  

  

  