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Dactylopius infesting the roots of red clover, Trifolium pratense L. We 

 have also found them burrowing in ripe apples. 



Limonius auripilis Say. — We have observed the adult feeding upon 

 ripe raspberries during July. 



Carpophilus brachypterus Say. — These beetles are sometimes quite 

 numerous in the fruit of the raspberry, especially if it be a little over- 

 ripe. Their small size, and the habit of secreting themselves in the cav- 

 ity of the berry about the receptacle, renders their presence difficult to 

 detect. 



lulus impressus Say. — About the middle of July of the present year 

 (1888) a lady of Lafayette purchased from her grocer a quantity of black 

 raspberries for preserving. The case consisted of 1 6 quart-boxes, such as 

 are usually employed for holding fruit. On looking the berries over, 

 preparatory to cooking, she began to find these worms intermingled 

 among and devouring the fruit. By the time a small portion of the 

 supply had been inspected, upwards of fifty worms had been found, and 

 the fruit was disposed of in a way rather more summary than that of 

 preserving. Samples of both fruit and worms submitted to me left no 

 doubt as to either the species of lulus engaged, or its appetite for this 

 kiud of fruit. Whether the worms infested the fruit in the field, or 

 whether the case was left on the ground and they made their way into 

 the boxes, I was not able to learn, but the latter appears more probable. 



Cosmopepla carnifex Fab. — This was reported to me from Livingston 

 County, New York, as injuring the foliage of the black raspberry. See 

 Insect Life, vol. 1, p. 157.— [F. M. Webster, November 30, 1889. 



NEBRASKA INSECTS. 



We have just received from Prof. Lawrence Bruner his report to the 

 Nebraska State Board of Agriculture for 1888. He considers a number 

 of injurious species, including the Chinch Bug, the Corn Worm, the Box- 

 elder Plant-louse, the Green-striped Maple-worm, the Willow Cimbex, 

 the Apple-tree Flea-beetle, the Apple Twig-borer, the Corn Root- worm, 

 the Army Worm, Cut Worms, the Box-elder Bug, the Imbricated Snout- 

 beetle, the Sculptured Corn Sphenophorus, Tree Crickets, a new enemy 

 to the Colorado Potato-beetle, Ox Warbles, Plum Curculio, Codling 

 Moth, Strawberry Worms. The report-is mainly compiled, but con- 

 tains some account of the author's personal observations in Nebraska 

 of the species mentioned. Among these we may note that the Army 

 Worm is here recorded in injurious numbers for the first time in Ne- 

 braska. The damage by the Imbricated Snout-beetle to young corn is 

 also of interest, while the illustrated article on the Box-elder Plant- 

 louse is new. Under the article upon the Plum Curculio he mentions 

 finding a species of Coccotorus, which he proposes to name hirsuttiSy feed- 

 ing upon the Sand Cherry, in Cuming County. This we have since 

 learned is the true Coccotorus scutellaris of Leconte (see note in Insect 



