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they can be collected or sprayed with the fish-oil soap mixture and 
killed. The stronger of these mixtures did not appear to affect the 
peach, while the weaker injures the leaves and young fruit of the grape. 
In May, in Wayne County, the young buds of the blackberry were 
considerably injured by attacks of the larvee of the following species 
of moths: Hxartema permundana and a species near FL. fasciata, Oxypti- 
lus tenuidactylus, one of the cigar-case bearers, and a species that has 
not yet developed adults and is therefore as yet undetermined. Spray- 
ing the bushes, May 9, with 4 ounces Paris green in 50 gallons water 
proved effectual. 
Colaspis brunnea has been especially abundant, the adults and larve 
feeding on the leaves of Rumex. The adults were accused of injuring 
-eorn by eating the silk before the kernels had been fertilized. 
The asparagus beetle, Crioceris asparagi, persists in its slow but 
steady march westward across the State, with exasperating disregard 
of Dr. Merriam’s carefully prepared life-zone maps. Its advance may 
now be indicated by its occurrence in northwestern Erie, eastern Huron, 
extreme northeastern Richland, northern Ashland, Wayne, Stark, and 
Columbiana counties. In some of these localities it has not been before 
observed, and careful search has failed to reveal its presence at ail in 
this State to the westward of the line indicated. It made its first 
appearance at Wooster, on the experiment station farm, this spring, and 
is found only singly or in limited numbers along the border indicated. 
In one instance the larve were being destroyed by Podisus spinosus. 
The harlequin cabbage bug, Wurgantia histrionica, has certainly sus- 
tained a severe repulse by the low temperature of last winter. While 
the insect was’ observed breeding in Clermont County, southern Ohio, 
last May, its almost entire absence has been reported in localities 
where last year it was disastrously abundant. [From this it would 
appear that only the most hardy or best protected individuals have 
survived in Ohio, and we may now look for it to again attempt to push 
its way northward until itis again driven back by adverse meteorological 
conditions. 
The grape sawfly, Selandria vitis, was reported, with specimens, from 
Holmes County August 11. All stages except the pup were sent to 
the station, the larve varying in size from very young to nearly or 
quite full grown. This is the first time that it has been reported to us 
from Ohio, though it seems to occur in profusion in this one locality. 
The grape-berry moth, Hudemis botrana. This insect seems to winter 
over in the larval stage in the seed clusters of sumach. Some of the 
seed clusters were collected about Wooster, September 20, 1898, and 
from them great numbers of moths issued in the insectary during the 
following winter. Clusters collected in the same locality as those just 
mentioned, January 23, 1899, gave us not a single adult, though there 
were numerous dead larvee in them-when collected. There are no vine- 
yards of any consequence about Wooster. Seed clusters of sumach 
