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Coleophora sp. — A New Pear Insect. (Popular Gardening, for 

 June, 1890, v, p. 198, c. 1, 2 — 7 cm.) 



Young pears in the Mt. Hope Nurseries at Rochester, N. Y., are 

 attacked by a small case-bearing caterpillar which eats numerous round 

 holes of the diameter of the case into the fruit and badly injures it in its 

 subsequent growth. Early arsenical spraying would doubtless prevent 

 the injury. 



[See page 347 of this Report.] 



The Pear-blight beetle* (Popular Gardening, for June, 1890, v, 

 p. 198, c. 2 — 6 cm.) 



Notices the attack of Xyleborus pyri in a pear orchard at Lockport, 

 N. Y., in the spring of 1888, and the injury inflicted. 

 [See page 348 of this Report.] 



Quince Blossoms Beetle. (Popular Gardening, for June, 1890, v, 

 p. 198, c. 2— 4 cm.) 



A snapping-beetle [Limonius confusus] proved quite destructive to 

 quince blossoms in the spring of 1889, at IMacedon, N. Y., and had been 

 injurious for the preceding four years. 



[See page 351 of this Report.] 



The Peach Bark Borer. (Popular Gardening, for June, 1890, v, 

 p. 198, c. 2 — 3 cm.) 



No preventive of the attack of this Scolytid borer {Phlceotribus 

 liminaris) is known. Infested trees should be taken up and burned. 

 It is apparently increasing in number in the State of New York. 



[See page 351 of this Report.] 



The Grapevine Flea-Beetle. (Popular Gardening, for June, 1890, 

 V, p. 198, c. 2 — 5 cm.) 



The best methods of dealing with this insect [Haltica chalybea] are 

 given. A hemipterous insect [Poclisus sp.] has been detected preying 

 upon it at Penn Yan, N. Y. 



[See page 353 of this Report.] 



A New Enemy of the Currant Worm. (Popular Gardening, for 



June, 1890, v, p. 198, c. 2 — 4 cm.) 



One of the large plant-bugs, Podisus cynicus, has been taken at 

 Jamestown, N. Y., feeding upon and destroying many currant worms. 

 [See 356 page of this Report.] 



Seventeen-year Locusts make their appearance. (Albany Morning 



Express, for June 13, 1890, p. 2, c. 5 — 14 cm.) 



Capture of examples of Cicada septendecim reported at Tivoli, N. Y. 

 The only brood to which they can be referred is that due on the Hudson 

 river in 1894. But this insect is not known ever to have anticipated its 



