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not uncommon. In the National Museum collection there are also 
specimens from Maiden and one other locality in Massachusetts, and 
Mr. M. L. Linell informs me that he has taken a specimen near Brook- 
lyn. L. I. 
It will be noticed that although the species was known to have been 
introduced at least ten years ago, that it is still limited to districts near 
the sea shore. Like other allied wingless species that have been intro- 
duced from Europe it will probably not extend its range much farther 
south, but will move gradually westward from the points where it has 
now established itself. It it a common European species and is known 
to feed on a great variety of deciduous trees and shrubs, and though it 
is impossible to forecaste the future it is not probable that it will ever be 
particularly injurious to cultivated plants in this country. — F. H. C. 
DAMAGE TO CLOVER IX MICHIGAN. 
Two of the most important insect enemies of the clover plant, both 
importations from Europe, have reached the State of Michigan on their 
westward march from the Atlantic coast, and during the past two sea- 
sons have done a great deal of damage. These are the clover-leaf 
weevil. Phytonomus punctatus. and the clover root-borer, Hylastinus 
obseuru.s Marsh. From an article in the Michigan Farmer for Septem- 
ber 8. 1894, we learn that during the past two years the combination 
of the attacks of these two insects with the protracted drought has 
resulted in the most general failure of the clover crop in Michigan that 
has ever been known. 
A NEW COTTON INSECT IN TEXAS. 
We have recently received from San Diego County, Tex., specimens 
of cotton bolls damaged by Anthonomus grandis Boh. This insect was 
sent to Prof. Riley more than ten years ago by Dr. Edward Palmer 
(see Annual Report Department of Agriculture, 1885, p. 279), who 
found it feeding in dwarf cotton bolls in northern Mexico, but it has 
never been reported with certainty from the United States until the 
present summer. Dr. W. G. Dietz, in his revision of the Authonomini 
(Tr. Am. Ent. Soc., vol. xviii, p. 205), has, indeed, reported the species 
from Texas on the basis of a specimen in Mr. Schwarz's collection 
bearing a Texas label, but Mr. Schwarz informs us that he ha§ 
recently learned that the specimen referred to was from Mexico and 
came indirectly from the same source as did Prof. Riley's specimens. 
The larva lives within the bolls and is full grown before the end of 
September. The bolls which were sent in October contained adult 
larva*, pupae, and full-grown insects as well. The life- history of the 
insect is not fully known, and we can not at the present time suggest 
any competent remedy. It will possibly prove a very important enemy 
to the cotton crop in the southwest. A more detailed account will be 
published in the next number of Insect Life. 
