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“worm” boring in at the tips. A few days later Mr. H. E. Dosch, hor- 
ticultural commissioner for the first district, reported the same injury 
to prunes as very common throughout his district. Up to and inelud- 
ing the 18th of June many similar reports were received. some of which 
were accompanied by injured twigs each of which contained a single 
larva. 
Unfortunately none of these larve were preserved, all being con- 
signed to the breeding jars. However, my recollection is that they were 
reddish pink in color with the head and shield of the first segment pale 
brown, and that they corresponded in every particular with Mr. William 
Saunders’s description of the larve of Anarsia lineatella as quoted by 
Dr. Lintner in his first report on the “Injurious and Other Insects of 
New York.” At least I compared them with that description and 
ubhesitatingly identified them as belonging to that species. 
June 22, 1896, some of these larve were observed to have left the 
twigs and to have pupated in various parts of the breeding jars, the 
pup being held in position by a very slight cocoon consisting only of 
a few silken threads. July 3 four moths issued from these pupe. 
These moths agreed perfectly with the description of A. lineatella as 
quoted by Dr. Lintner in the article referred to above. 
No further reports of injury to prune trees were received, and noth- 
ing nore was observed concerning this insect until October 2, 1896, when 
the strawberry plants on the college grounds and in a neighboring 
patch were found to be very badly infested by reddish-pink larve 
which were not to be distinguished from those that had attacked peach 
and prune twigs in June. Several infested plants were removed to the 
insectary, and together with plants out of doors were examined from 
time to time throughout the winter, with the result that it was found 
that the larvee pass the winter in their burrows in the strawberry 
crowns in a nearly dormant condition. During the winter infested 
strawberry crowns were received from several localities and in every 
case the burrows were found to contain the larve. 
May 19, 1897, one moth issued in a cage in the insectary, although an 
examination of plants out of doors showed that the larve were just 
beginning to pupate, and it was June 1 before any considerable num- 
ber of pup could be found. At the present time (July 6) moths are 
still continuing to issue. These moths are exceedingly similar to, if not 
identical with, those reared from peach and prune twigs last July. 
From the fact that there was a somewhat extensive attack by the 
twig-borer last June, and still no evidence throughout the summer, fall, 
and early winter months of any attack on prune trees by a second brood 
of these larvie, and since in early fall strawberry plants were so gener- 
ally attacked by great numbers of apparently identical larve, I have 
been led to infer that the first brood of moths deposits its eggs almost 
entirely upon the strawberry, although that inference is somewhat 
opposed to the statement made by Professor Comstock that ‘ the fruit- 
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