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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  on 
  economic 
  entomology, 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  30 
  years. 
  It 
  was 
  first 
  brought 
  

   to 
  their 
  notice 
  in 
  183 
  1, 
  by 
  Say, 
  who 
  believing 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  undescribed 
  

   species, 
  characterized 
  it 
  and 
  gave 
  it 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Capsus 
  oblineatus, 
  

   stating 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  very 
  common 
  insect. 
  Later 
  it 
  was 
  -found 
  that 
  it 
  had 
  

   been 
  previously 
  described 
  by 
  Beauvois 
  as 
  Coreus 
  linearis^ 
  and 
  finally 
  it 
  

   was 
  ascertained 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  originally 
  described 
  by 
  I>innaeus, 
  over 
  100 
  

   years 
  ago, 
  as 
  Cimex 
  pratensis. 
  

  

  Economic 
  aspect. 
  This 
  insect 
  has 
  long 
  been 
  known 
  as 
  occurring 
  

   on, 
  and 
  often 
  quite 
  injurious 
  to 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  both 
  cultivated 
  and 
  

   native 
  plants. 
  Its 
  earliest 
  notice 
  as 
  of 
  economic 
  importance 
  is 
  by 
  Harris, 
  

   who 
  represents 
  it 
  as 
  a 
  very 
  general 
  feeder. 
  Another 
  early 
  account 
  is 
  

   that 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Riley 
  in 
  his 
  second 
  report 
  (see 
  citation), 
  where 
  he 
  ascribes 
  to 
  

   it 
  an 
  extended 
  range 
  of 
  food 
  plants, 
  and 
  mentions 
  it 
  as 
  often 
  exceedingly 
  

   destructive 
  to 
  young 
  pear 
  trees. 
  He 
  cites 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  Mr 
  E. 
  J. 
  Ayres 
  

   of 
  Villa 
  Ridge, 
  who, 
  in 
  his 
  efibrts 
  to 
  grow 
  young 
  pear 
  trees, 
  was 
  quite, 
  

   discouraged 
  by 
  the 
  insidious 
  work 
  of 
  this 
  insect. 
  Prof. 
  Riley 
  also 
  gives 
  

   an 
  instance, 
  coming 
  under 
  his 
  personal 
  observation, 
  of 
  potato 
  fields 
  with 
  

   almost 
  every 
  stalk 
  bhghted 
  and 
  black 
  from 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  this 
  pest. 
  It 
  

   has 
  proved 
  itself 
  a 
  destructive 
  enemy 
  of 
  the 
  strawberry, 
  sucking 
  the 
  

   green 
  berries 
  and 
  causing 
  them 
  to 
  ' 
  button 
  ' 
  (Forbes, 
  see 
  citation). 
  It 
  

   has 
  been 
  recorded 
  by 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  writers 
  as 
  very 
  injurious 
  to 
  several 
  

   flowers, 
  and 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  found 
  injuring 
  celery 
  to 
  such 
  an 
  extent 
  as 
  

   to 
  materially 
  reduce 
  its 
  market 
  value. 
  It 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  attack 
  such 
  a 
  large 
  

   number 
  of 
  plants 
  that 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  them 
  would 
  be 
  of 
  little 
  value, 
  including 
  

   as 
  it 
  would, 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  crops 
  grown 
  on 
  a 
  farm 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  garden 
  

   besides 
  many 
  native 
  wild 
  plants. 
  

  

  Injuries 
  in 
  peach 
  nurseries. 
  In 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  nurseries 
  in 
  the 
  

   western 
  part 
  of 
  this 
  state, 
  many 
  peach-trees 
  showed, 
  in 
  the 
  early 
  autumn 
  

   of 
  the 
  present 
  year, 
  a 
  peculiar 
  short 
  bushy 
  growth, 
  which 
  was 
  evidently 
  

   caused 
  by 
  a 
  bhghting 
  or 
  stunting 
  of 
  the 
  growing 
  tips 
  earlier 
  in 
  the 
  year. 
  

   In 
  some 
  localities, 
  a 
  large 
  proportion, 
  perhaps 
  one 
  half, 
  of 
  the 
  young 
  trees 
  

   were 
  so 
  seriously 
  affected 
  as 
  to 
  greatly 
  reduce 
  their 
  value, 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  no 
  

   longer 
  first-class 
  stock. 
  The 
  damage 
  to 
  one 
  block 
  of 
  trees, 
  not 
  many 
  

   miles 
  from 
  Rochester, 
  from 
  this 
  cause, 
  was 
  estimated 
  by 
  its 
  owner 
  at 
  

   $1,000. 
  The 
  total 
  loss 
  for 
  the 
  year 
  to 
  the 
  nurserymen 
  growing 
  peach- 
  

   trees 
  in 
  that 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  state, 
  must 
  have 
  amounted 
  to 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  

   thousands 
  of 
  dollars. 
  

  

  The 
  nurserymen 
  informed 
  me 
  that 
  the 
  trouble 
  was 
  due 
  to 
  an 
  insect 
  

   * 
  stinging 
  ' 
  the 
  young 
  shoots 
  from 
  the 
  bud 
  as 
  they 
  appeared. 
  The 
  injury 
  

  

  