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 of Eochester. The caterpillar changed to a pupa within the leaves of 



the pear, and on June twenty-fifth gave out the moth, which proved to 

 be Gaccecia argyrospila (Walktr) — the Tortrix furvana of some authors, 

 and the T. V-signata of Packard, whence we have the common name 

 above given. It is reported as having been bred from rose, apple, 

 hickory, oak, maple, elm, and cherry. It has not been recorded pre- 

 viously from the pear. 



A New Enemy of the Gurr ant-worm. — A large plant-bug was dis- 

 covered by Mr. Samuel Gr. Love, of Jamestown, N. Y., with its beak 

 inserted into currant-worms Nematus ventricosus, sucking out their 

 juices and killing numbers of them. When received by me, they 

 were in their pupal form. They were fed on currant- worms until 

 they transformed to the perfect stage, permitting of their identification 

 as Podisus cynicus (Say), after which they were released to feed at 

 large, in the hope that their progeny in coming years would inherit a 

 special fondness for the food of their ancestors, and thus aid in the 

 work of bringing under control that annoying garden pest, the intro- 

 duction of which into this country from its native home in Europe, it 

 is said, is chargeable upon a prominent member of the Western New 

 York Horticultural Society. But this was in the infancy of your 

 Society, and we trust that since then — during a term of years 

 exceeding the average length of human life — you have accomplished 

 sufficient good to atone, over and over again, for the commission of so 

 great an evil — innocently done. Enterprise often leads us into 

 danger and harm. 



