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cherry, and it had not been sufficiently abundant to cause more than 
occasional record of the fact in the literature of economic entomology. 
For instance, it is not mentioned in the Catalogue of the Exhibit of 
Economic Entomology at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 
Portland, Oreg., 1905, given in Bulletin No. 53 of this Bureau. It 
has been listed several times, however, as occurring: on plums and 
cherries, and in the following cases had been mentioned especially in 
respect to its injury to these plants: Kellicott reported serious injury, 
in some instances, to plums in New York State in 1881, but Smith, 
nine years later (1890) ,* stated that it was rare in New Jersey. In 
1892 Kellicott reported serious injury to cherries in Ohio. In 1899 
Lugger thought the insect was increasing in Minnesota. Finally, in — | 
1906, Quaintance reported it as very abundant in Georgia, causing 
material injury to peach trees. 
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION; SCIENTIFIC NAME. 
The insect was first described as new to science in 1868 by Grote 
and Robinson, from adults captured in the “Atlantic district 
(Penna.).” It was given the specific name pictipes and placed in 
the genus Ageria of Fabricius. In 1881 it was redescribed as new 
by Henry Edwards under the name of 4 geria inusitata, from speci- 
mens obtained in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, and at 
Andover, Mass. Twelve years later Beutenmiiller (1893) established 
inusitata Hy. Edwards, as a synonym of pictipes. In the meantime 
Smith (1890) had removed the species pictipes to the genus Sesia of 
Fabricius, which removal was accepted later by Beutenmiiller (1896, 
1897) and Dyar (1902). Soon afterwards Holland (1903), finding 
that the name Sesia had been restricted to a genus of the Sphingide 
by Fabricius, applied to the genus Hiibner’s proposed name, Synanthe- 
don, which seems to be the proper course in this case (p. 385). The 
insect’s scientific name, therefore, is Synanthedon pictipes (Grote and 
Robinson ). 
COMMON NAMES. 
Owing to the fact that the lesser peach borer feeds in the larval 
stage on a variety of trees it has become known by local or common ~ 
names, depending on its most common or most important food plant 
in particular localities. It was first found on plum, and hence was 
first called, by Bailey in 1879, the plum-tree borer, which has since 
been the name oftenest applied to it. In 1896, as previously men- 
tioned, Webster referred to it incidentally as “the peach borer; ” 
and in 1906 it was designated by Starnes as “ the wild-cherry borer.” 
In the same year, however, because of its increasing abundance on the 
a@ Dates in parentheses refer to the bibliography at the end of this paper. 
