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

 Notices Bibio femoratus and tlie plum curculio. 



Mites in clothing. (Country gentleman. June 9, 188 1. 46:376^^) 

 Mites Iq a box of clothing were probably Bryohia pratensis. 



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

 July I, 1881) 



Larvae collected at Potsdam have been identified as JSfephelodes violans 

 Guen. [var. (>£ iV. mlnhins Guen.] and Crambus exsiccatus Zeller Itrisectus 

 Walk.]. 



Orchard caterpillar. (Country gentleman. July 14, 1881. 46:45 5^^) 

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



Worms on tomatoes. (Country gentleman. July 14, 188 1. 46:456'^) 



'Light brown worm or fly,' can not be named without examples of the 

 insect. 



Pear tree blight. (Middleburgh gazette. July ? 1881) 

 Pear blight is described and treatment indicated. 



Insects and fungus on quinces. (Country gentleman. Aug. iS, 188 1. 



46:535'') 



Quince curcalio, Conotrachehis crataegl Walsh, the apple worm, Carpooapsa 

 pomonella Linn, and a fnngus. RoesteUa aurant'iaca [aecidial form of Gymnos- 

 porangium cJavipes^, 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, Orgyia [Notoloplms] 

 leucostigma. 



Insects on strawberry roots. (Country gentleman. Sep. 8, 1881. 46 : 



583'') 



Unable to identify the insect without examples. 



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



46: 583'') 



Brief uotice of the t'angus, Oecidium pyrafumSchw. [aecidial form of Gym- 

 nosporangium macropns'] . 



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

 Ash gray blister beetle, Epicauta cinerea Forst. is reconh.'d on the tomato. 



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

 Sep. 14, 1881) 



Notes on this species — it is tlie depredator, not Nephelodes violana Guen. 

 [var. of y. minians Guen.] 



