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collected at Gypsum, Ottawa County, January 17, 1899, gave us no 
adults at all of this species, but swarms of Canarsia open though 
there are extensive vineyards in the immediate vicinity of where these 
seed clusters were collected, and H. botrana was destructively abundant 
here in 1897 and quite abundant in 1898, <A large quantity of fallen 
leaves collected in and about these vineyards January 17, 1899, did not 
give us a Single grape-berry moth in the insectary, nor did this lot of 
leaves, like those collected in precisely the same locality May 6, 1898, 
give us a Single adult of the grapevine gallmaker, Ampeloglypter sesos- 
tris, or the clover-hay moth, Pyralis costalis. 
Hadena devastatrix. The larve of this species were very abundant 
in winter-broken bottom sodland near Troy, Ohio. This ground was 
planted to seedling peaches in spring and by June 5, 1899, fully 35 
per cent of these had been cut off about 2 or 3 inches above the roots, 
and thus destroyed. A single larvee was taken in the act of attacking 
a young plant June5. This pupated on the 12th and the adult emerged 
on 26th. 
The injury that has been observed by Professors Rolfs and Johnson 
and discussed by these gentlemen in Entomological News, seems to be 
done in Ohio by the tarnished plant bug, Lygus pratensis. No evidence 
of the presence of any such insect as mentioned by them has been 
found, while the extent of injury has been observed to coincide with 
' the abundance of L. pratensis in the peach nurseries. Our nurserymen 
state that they frequently ne the pest at its work and are sure that 
_ they are not mistaken. 
Chramesus icorie. This was reared from twigs of walnut tree, collected 
at East Cleveland April 7, 1897. 
Gymnetron teter. Adults were jarred from plum trees May 28, 1898, 
at Wooster, and observed at Mantua swarming among leaves of mullein, 
June 8, 1897. 
Two larve, found at Mount Union July 22, 1898, about a decaying 
beech stump, were brought to the insectary, together with a mass of the 
decaying wood in which they were found apparently feeding, all being 
placed in a jelly cup. These larve formed cocoons of the material in 
which they were collected August 1898, the cocoons resembling those 
constructed by the larvee of Lucanus dama. May 29, 1899, one of the 
cocoons was opened and found to be filled with a white fungus resem- ~ 
bling Sporotrichum. This was referred to Dr. Thaxter, who. replied 
under date of June 11 as follows: “The fungus was not in very good 
condition when received, so that I have waited for it to develop before 
answering. It proves to be the Sporotrichum globuliferum that seems to 
attack insects so universally.” 
Agromyza ceneiventris. Larvee found burrowing in pith of the common 
garden sunflower, at Wooster, October 19, 1898, on being transferred 
within this pith to the insectary gave us aan flies during January and 
February, 1899. In Indiana, in 1886, Mr. Webster reared this species 
