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FE and in three of them there were two eggs each and in the other one. 
- In some cases the eggs were side by side, and others end to end, but 
always laid lengthwise with the stem. The slits made for the eggs 
were not closed in any manner by the beetle, yet the eggs were not 
visible in them until some of the tissue was torn away. 
The work of the beetle was not confined to the soft maple nor to the 
petioles of leaves, but the incisions were common upon small twigs and 
shoots also, which nearly always died as the result, and were often 
found broken over. The twigs were all small, seldom more than one- 
eighth inch in diameter, and where one cut was found there were usually 
several, from a quarter to a half inch apart. In most cases the cuts 
extended about halfway around the twig. The dead twigs gave the 
trees the appearance of having been struck by a blight of some sort. 
The injuries were found upon maple, honey locust, elm, ash, birch, 
aspen, and oak. Nearly all of the smaller trees of the above varieties, 
those under 2 feet in height, have suffered seriously from the injuries, 
a good proportion of them seeming perfectly dead at this writing. 
A FEW INSECTS THAT HAVE BEEN UNUSUALLY ABUNDANT IN 
COLORADO THIS YEAR. 
By C. P. GILLETTE, Fort Collins, Colo. 
I wish to call the attention of the Association of Economic Entomol- 
ogists to a few insects that have been unusually abundant in Colorado 
the past spring and summer. 
The peach twig borer (Anarsia lineatella Zell.)—For three years past 
there has been some complaint among the peach growers of the western 
slope of a small worm eating into peaches about the time that they 
ripen. On the 7th of May of this year I received three letters aud as 
many packages from parties in western Colonado, who complained of 
a small worm that was doing a large amount of damage to peach, plum, 
apricot, and almond trees by eating into the buds and young twigs 
causing both to die, and many letters have been received since con- 
cerning the same insect. The three men who wrote, so that I received 
their letters the same day, were, Mr. A. V. Sharpe, Fruita, horticultural 
inspector for Mesa County; Mr. B.C. Oyler, Grand Junction, ex-inspector 
of the same county; and Mr. W. M. Hastings, Delta, an extensive fruit 
grower. Mr. Hastings estimated that one-third of all the young shoots 
on his peach trees were bored into and destroyed by this inseet. 
I advised Mr. McGinty, horticultural inspector for Delta County, to 
put cloth bandages about the trunks of the trees to see if the lary 
could be trapped under them, and he afterwards sent me a large num- 
ber of pup taken thus, from which moths began to appear June 1. 
No parasites were bred. Moths sent to Dr. Fernald were determined 
as the above species. This insect probably came to Colorado in Cali- 
fornia peaches which were wormy. 
