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and erumples the leaves of the cherry, and rici the pear. A minute 
moth is also described as mining the leaves of the apple, a single leaf 
sometimes containing five or six larve. hi is a Micropteryx (M. pomivo- 
rella n. sp.), allied to the European M. oi te though about half its 
Size. This is the only species of this interesting genus yet found in 
America. Of the two moths infesting the cherry, the v-marked tortrix 
is the yellow cranberry worm (Tortrix vacciniivorana n. sp.), of the New 
Jersey cranberry fields, while the habits of the cranberry weevil (Pl. 6 
tig. 10, enlarged; 10a, larva, enlarged), are described from the observa- . 
tions of Mr. sh, who has paid more attention than any one else 
to the insects infesting the cranberry. Two Fig. 154. 
insects not before known to feed on the cur- 
rant, are the Cherodes transversata of Walker, 
and Halia wavaria, a species introduced from - 
Europe, where it has long been known to 
feed on the gooseberry. a 
aspberry is einig a a beetle (By- s 
turus unicolor Say, Pl. 6, , enlarged), 3 = 
ic s the fruit buds, ate kes long = 
slits in the leaves during June. Of forest = 
nen the many-teethed Priocycla (P. bili- E 
nearia n. sp.), is a span worm feeding on the E: 
oak. Tul pine Vninbh (P. piniata n. sp. bi 
W. Saunders, to whom our entomologists are e di benet Xu: 
descriptions of the larve of many of our butterflies and moths. Besides 
ese pine insects, the singular saw-fly larva of a species of Lyda (Fig. 
154), which has been found on the Austrian pine in a garden in Salem, 
deserves mention. It is a reddish olive green worm, with a pale reddish 
head, and two appendages to the end of the body like its antenne. 
A species of the Snout moth, of the genus Botys ( B. syringicola n. sp.) 
a clear winged moth (Ægeria syringe Harris) to be often destructive 
to lilacs, 
Of uM to gardeners is an account of the bean weevil (Bruchus 
granarius of Linneus, Pl. 6, fig. 8, bean containing several grubs; 8a, 
pupa). is is the wen known and very destructive bean weevil of 
Europe, concerning which Mr. Angus writes from West Farms, N. Y., to 
the author: = I send you a sample of beans which I think will stabile you 
