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The larvae emerged and entered the ground, but none of the flies have 

 made their appearance. 



In Keene Valley, in former years, I have found this cherry very 

 abundantly galled by apparently the same insect in the month of July. 

 Many larvae were disclosed from them, but in the several attempts made 

 to obtain the imago all have met with failure. 



The present year not a single galled cherry could be found in the 

 localities in Keene Valley where in other years they had abounded. 



These galls have been studied by Prof. George E. Atkinson, of Cornell 

 University, in connection with a fungus attack which he found to be 

 usually associated with them, named and described by him as Exoascus 

 cecidomophilus (see Bulletin 73, Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, September, 1894). It was not ascertained by him if the 

 larvae attack the fruit before or after the attack of the fungus. It was 

 thought that the larvae attack and deform fruits which are not affected 

 by the fungus. In this he was probably correct, as I have no recollec- 

 tion of the fungus presence on the galls collected by me in Keene 

 Valley. 



This cecidomyiid has not as yet been described, although it has been 

 observed by several entomologists. 



The larvae of Euphoria inda Linn., formerly known as the Indian Ceto- 

 nian, were found iu large numbers beneath chip manure at Menands, 

 N~. Y., in the latter part of June. From their general appearance and from 

 their occurrence in manure they were believed to be the "muck- worm" 

 (Ligyrus relictus Say). Examples were brought to me within the manure 

 inclosed in a box. Not long thereafter they were found to have eaten 

 all of the excremental portion, leaving only the bits and pieces of chips 

 and a large quantity of rounded pellets of their excrementa. These, 

 together with additional ones obtained, were transferred on July 30 to a 

 larger box, with an ample supply of food. The box was opened from time 

 to time until the 8th of August, when two Euphoria inda were resting 

 on the surface. Examination of the contents gave the following: Two 

 perfect beetles within their cells, one of which was on the point of emerg- 

 ing. Another cell gave a beetle, uncolored, having just transformed 

 from the pupa. The remaining cells (5) contained pupae. 



Do the larvae feed also on growing vegetation % State Botanist Peck, 

 from whom the larvae were obtained, had applied some of the manure to 

 a few hills of corn in his garden. The following day one of the hills 

 was noticed as having been cut down as if by cutworms. Upon digging 

 around the stalks two larvae of the Euphoria were discovered, but no 

 cutworms, from which it would seem probable that the grubs had 

 committed the injury. 



The oak pruner (Elaphidion villosumF&bY. ) is not, I believe, of frequent 

 occurrence on apple trees, but during the first week of June its opera- 

 tions were very noticeable in an orchard in Voorheesville, Albany 

 County, where a large number of twigs and branches had been thrown 



