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various Solanaceae, one of which, 8. rostratum, is characteristic of the 
sab-alpine of Colorado, but is wanting in the mid-alpine 
Further details of this sort need not be now given, as I hope to be 
able to describe the Santa Fe insect fauna at greater length hereafter, 
in comparison with that of other localities. 
The more noteworthy iusect pests which have so far come under 
observation may now be briefly mentioned. 
(A) IMPORTED SPEdES. 
These are mentioned first, being the most troublesome. 
(1) OF BOTH MESILLA VALLEY AXD SAXTA FE\ 
The codling moth {Carpoeapsa pomonella), though unknown in either lor-ality ten 
years ago, is now extremely injurious, heing altogether the worst insect pest in the 
Territory. Mr. Boyle, of Santa Fe, iuforms me that he has seen the native jays in 
his garden eating the larvae, finding them in places where they had gone to pupate. 
Mr. H. Casad, of Mesilla, remarked to me that in that locality many of the larvae 
entered the fruit at the side. This statement was c onfirmed by an examination of 
his orchard in company with him. 
In the Mesilla Valley apples injured by the codling moth are attacked by Dro- 
soj)hiIa ampelophila ; but this fly has not yet been detected at Santa Fe. 
The house fly (Musca domestica). There does not seem to be any reason for sup- 
posing that this insect is a true native of New Mexico, though it is now of course 
everywhere established. In the Mesilla Valley and at Albuquerque it is extremely 
numerous, but much less so at Santa Fe. At Las Cruces I found Eucoila impatiens 
Say (identified by Mr. Ashmead) on horse dung in a corral, and suspected it might 
have been parasitic on house-fly larvae breeding in the dung. So long as the town 
is full of corrals, cleaned out at not very frequent intervals, the fly plague seems 
inevitable. 
The common cockroach, apparently true Blatta orienial'is, is found abundantly in 
Las Cruces, and more rarely in Santa Fe. In my house in Las Cruces I caught an 
apparently undescribed Evania, which is probably parasitic, on the eggs of the 
Blatta. The large Periplantta americana has not been observed. 
The cabbage aphis (Aphis brassicw) is sufficiently plentiful in both localities. At 
Las Cruces it is parasitized by AUotria brasxiccu Ashm. 
The woolly aphis {Schizoneura lanigera) is fairly common. 
(2) OF MESILLA VALLEY OXLY. 
The San Jose" scale (Aspidiotus perniclosus) is well established at Las Cruces, but 
has only just reached the neighboring town of Mesilla. It has also been detected 
at Chamberino. 
The sesiid peach-borer (S. exitiosa) no doubt has been imported, and I have my- 
self seen it in peach trees only just received from Missouri, and not yet planted. 
The peach shield-scale (Lecanium persica') is found at Las Cruces, but so far has 
done no serious damage. 
The cottony scale of the Osage orange (Pulvina) % ia maclurce) has been introduced, 
and is found on a tree in Las Cruces, and also in a hedge between Las Cruces and 
Mesilla. The Osage orange hedges in Mesilla, raised from seed by Mr. Bull, of that 
place, appear to be free from the scale. 
There is also a large Lecanium (a new species or a variety of L. robiniarum Dougl.) 
on Osage orange in Las Cruces. 
Stored grain suffers from the attacks of Tribolium confusum and Calandra granaria. 
