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Peck, at Menands, Albany county, N. Y., were received on September 

 tenth. By holding to the light, the little caterpillar was plainly to be 

 seen actively mining within. The blotches made by them appeared 

 of a brick-red color, on the upper side of the leaves. 



The Hickory Tussock Caterpillar. — From Pawling, Dutchess county, 

 N. Y., Mr. Ira W. Hoag sent a colony of the young larvae of the 

 hickory tussock, Halisidota caryce (Harris), taken from a cherry tree. 

 They also occurred on several of his apple and pear trees. From a 

 small pear tree " nearly a pint " (many hundreds at their then small 

 size) was taken. When disturbed they dropped by a thread and 

 hung suspended. Shaken upon a sheet their quickness of motion 

 made them difficult to kill. (They could easily have been destroyed 

 by first saturating the sheet with kerosene.) This insect has not 

 been recorded as a pest of fruit trees, having usually been confined 

 to forest and shade trees, as walnut, butternut, elm, and ash. 



The Oblique-banded Leaf-roller. — Serious injury was inflicted in a 

 pear-block at Seneca Falls, N. Y., during the month of May, to certain 

 varieties of pears, by a small caterpillar eating into and destroy- 

 ing the buds, and later, by spinning together, and feeding on, the 

 young leaves. It had prevailed for a few years preceding. The 

 larvae sent to me were those of one of the Tortricid moths, and appa- 

 rently that of Gaccecia rosaceana, but I was not successful in obtaining 

 the moth for positive identification. This species — " the oblique- 

 banded leaf-roller " — is a common pest of our fruit trees, roses, 

 strawberry, and a number of other trees, shrubs and plants. The 

 remedy for it would be spraying with an arsenical liquid at its earliest 

 attack upon the buds, before it conceals itself among the leaves. 



The Eye-spotted Bud-moth. — Pieces of the new growth of plum 

 trees were sent, June fourteenth, from the nurseries of T. C. Maxwell & 

 Bros., at Geneva, burrowed into by a small caterpillar, which is 

 believed to be that of Tmetocera ocellana (Schiff ), although the larva 

 may not properly be described as cylindrical, its head being about one- 

 third the diameter of the body, and the central segments the broad- 

 est. In two of the tips examined the larva had burrowed just at the 

 commencement of the new growth upward for about a half-inch, and 

 in another, at the extreme tip from the terminal leaves downward for 

 more than an inch. The lower t)urrows were filled with gum — the 

 upper one with rounded pellets of excrementa. 



The V-shaped Tonrix. — Young pears, into which large holes had 

 been eaten, even extending into the seeds, and in some of the examples 

 embracing nearly one -half of the pear, were received, together with 

 the caterpillar feeding upon them, June thirteenth, from Mr. P. Barry, 



