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DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 
BEUTENMULLER, WILLIAM. Sesia pictipes (G. & R.). <Bul. Amer. Mus. 
Nat. list: (NOY... Violiolx sp 220: 
Larva under bark of plum, cherry, beach plum, chestnut, and juneberry, 
usually some distance up from base of tree; also on black knot fungus. 
Luecer, Orro. The Plum Tree Borer (Sesia pictipes G. & R.). <Bul. No. 
61, Minnesota Agric. Exp. Sta., St. Paul, p. 119, fig. 63. . 
Same as Lugger, 1899. 
Idem. The Plum Tree Borer (Sesia pictipes G. & R.). <4th Ann. Rep. ~ | 
Ent. State Exp. Sta. Univ. Minnesota f. 1898, St. Paul, p. 65, fig. 63. | 
Short summary account. Apparently increasing. Larva feeds mainly in — 
trunks and branches of wild and cultivated plums and cherries. Figure of © 
adult. Recommends use of pruning knife. 
BEUTENMULLER, WILLIAM. Synopsis of food-habits of the larvze of the 
Sesiidie. <Canadian Ent., London, Ontario. Vol. XXXII, pp. 301, 302. 
Sesia larve sometimes found in borings madé by other insects. Under | 
bark of cherry, plum, and juneberry, some distance from base of tree, or in — 
the limbs. 
SMITH, JOHN BERNHARD. Sesia pictipes (G. & R.). <Insects of New j 
Jersey. Supplement 27th Ann. Rep. State Bd. Agric., 1899, Trenton, p.— 
472. : 
Listed from Newark, Staten Island, Philadelphia, etc. Adults in June and : 
July. Larva on plum, cherry, beach plum, and sometimes peach, but rarely ~ | 
injurious. 
BEUTENMULLER, WILLIAM. Sesia pictipes (G. & R.). <Monograph Sesii- 
dz of America, North of Mexico. Memoirs American Mus. Nat. Hist., — 
NY. Volo. pp. 2262229. 231) 291-292 RP ls eae ne as 
Systematic treatment, with synonymy, distribution, description, and food j 
plants; colored figure of female. Moths out June and July. Time of adult 
emergence (p. 226), synoptic table of larve of the Sesiide (p. 229), and ’ 
secondary sexual characters of pupe (p. 231). 
Dyar, HarrRISON Gray. Sesia pictipes Grote & Robinson. <List of North — 
American Lepidoptera. Bul. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., Washington, p. 369. | 
Distribution given as “ U. 8.” 
HoLuanp, W. J. Synanthedon pictipes Grote & Robinson. <The Moth ~ 
Book: N: Y:, p. 386, Pl Xi, fe. 24. 
Brief account. Synonymy and food plants. Adults on wing in June and ; 
July. Good colored figure of female. b 
WASHBURN, F. L. Plum Tree Borer. <Bul. No. 84, Minnesota Agric} 
Exp. Sta., St. Anthony Park, p. 82, fig. 70. Ibid., Eighth Ann. Repm 
State Ent. Minnesota f. 1903. 
Sesia. Listed as injurious to plums, with figure of male. Cut out and 
burn infested parts. Lugger’s (1899) figure. i 
KELLOGG, VERNON LyMAN. American Insects, N. Y., fig. 558 (p. 392). 
Figures male. Sesia. 
BEUTENMULLER, WILLIAM. Sesia pictipes Gr. & Rob. <Insects affecting ~ 
park and woodland trees (Felt), Memoir No. 8, Vol. II, N. Y. State 
Museum, Albany, pp. 428, 458-454. 
Brief account based mainly on Bailey (1879). Description of adults. 
QUAINTANCE, ALTUS Lacy. The Lesser Peach Borer (4/geria pictipes G. & 
R.). Yearbk. U. 8. Dept. Agric. f. 1905, Washington, p. 335, Pl. XXXII | 
figs. 3 and 4. ; q 
Brief account. Found abundant on old or diseased peach trees in Georgia — | 
and Maryland during 1905. Figures both sexes and pupal cast in cocoon. — 
Recommends digging out. 
STARNES, HucH M. Bul. No. 73, Georgia Exp. Sta., p. 154. 
Mentioned as the “ wild cherry borer (Synanthedon pictipes),’’ and as being 
often mistaken for male peach borer, 
