Insects Injurious to the Cherry. 



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wrote concerning it, stating that tlie bark was seriously damaged 

 near the ground of aljont twenty trees, thirteen j-ears old. It N\'as 

 pointed out that those trees were worst where rougli grass was 

 around the l)ase. 



Kit:. 14(i. — I'l.l'M AMI i!I1:i;KV TUEE ^TE3I Bii];K]; 



iSruiasiu irni'heriiiua). 



A, Lldnlt (Vcnureil); B, l;ir\:l ; ('. hivva in ivoi.il ; i), larval (/iKuiilH.r and fiass (.r). 



In 1887 I found it damaging wall peach trees at Kingston-on- 

 Thames, where it eventually caused their death. It is recorded by 

 Wilkinson (8) from the A'icinity of Edinburgli and at llelfast, he 

 referring to it as attacking the laurel, almond and apple. 



THE SEMA^I.V L.Un'.E. 



Ivollar(3), Kaltenbach(4) and Tascheuberg(5) refer to it m 



Germany. 



The damao-e is done to ap])le, plum, cherry, nectarine and peach, 



