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HERBARIUM PEST THE APPLE MAGGOT. 77 



The larva above mentioned was that of a species of saw-fly (family 

 Tenthredinidce). We sent for a number of additional specimens in order 

 to endeavor to obtain the mature insect, for we did not recall any record 

 of injury to wheat by a Tentkredinid in this country. Curtis gives an 

 account of one in Europe, the description of which agrees very closely 

 with this larva, but from his account it would seem to have come from 

 some neighboring woods and not to have been naturally feeding on 

 wheat. As many of the saw-fly larva-, when abundant, have a habit of 

 wandering from their original food plants, such may have been the case 

 in this instance. We endeavored to get positive evidence of its wheat- 

 feeding habits, but failed, and the larvae received from Mr. Hostetter 

 died before transforming, so that the species was not even ascertained. 

 The same larva was reported by W. S. Chamberlain, Secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, as occurring on wheat at Columbus, Ohio.] 



Ti>eid Moths in Dried Fungi. 



Please allow me the privilege of sending you a specimeu of my col- 

 lection of fungi and their foe, and, if not too much trouble, please tell 

 me the name of the insect. These fungi were put in a strong paper 

 box and tightly wrapped in three folds of paper and tied with twine to 

 prevent the moths from depositing on them their eggs. It seems that 

 the larva? bored through paper and box and gained access to them. 

 Corrosive sublimate, &c., does not appear to protect them unless satu- 

 rated. The only way I have succeeded in saving specimens is to put 

 them in tight boxes with a sponge saturated with chloroform. 



I sent you specimens once before. You wrote me you thought them 

 new. Your final answer is given in American Entomologist, vol. 3, p. 

 297 — Cis fuscipes Mell. Evidently a mistake has in some way hap- 

 pened.— [J. J. Beown, M. D., Sheboyg in. Wis., May 15, 18S3. 



[The moth proved to be Scardia chnu-dla, Haw., allied to the common 

 grain moth. There was no mistake about Cis fuscipes. Both species 

 were received, and both infest the fungi. J 



The Apple Maggot. 



* * * In regard to the apple maggot. I can say that with us it is 

 a pest equal if not exceeding the Codlin moth (or its larva). It attacks 

 both early and winter fruit, greenings and Baldwins seeming to be its 

 choice, sometimes, yes often, completely honey-combing the Unit. We 

 have fed out quantities of apples infested with this maggot — 8, B. 

 Fkisbie, Milford, Conn., March 15, 188 ; 



Yourvery obliging letter, acknowledging receipt of the Dynastes pupa. 

 should have been noticed sooner, but 1 wanted to And some memoran- 



