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less strawberry at Ooeiir d'Alene, Idaho. This is a rather remarkable 

 facts not only because the species of the family Buprestid?e, to which 

 this flat-headed borer belongs, have hitherto been found boring under 

 the bark of hard^YOod trees, but because the species belongs to an 

 undescribed species of Chrysobothris, the same genus to which the Fiat- 

 headed Apple-tree Borer belongs, and one which has been recently 

 monogTaphed. In company with it there was an undescribed Lepidop- 

 terous crown-borer. 



A saw-fly larva {Janus flaviventris Fitch) has been found in the stems 

 of Currant at Adrian, Mich. 



A case-bearer belonging to the genus Coleophora, also undescribed, 

 was reported on orange trees from Los Angeles, Cal. 



An undescribed mite of the genus Tetranychus. the same genus to 

 which the Eed Spider belongs, has been found on lemon trees at Los 

 Angeles, Cal.. as also an undescribed Thrips on orange trees in the 

 same locality. 



A leaf-hopper {Ti/jyhlocijha rosce) has been very numerous on the 

 leaves of apple trees at Biu^lington. Vt. 



A canker-worm belonging to the genus Anisopteryx was rei^orted on 

 Plum from Elliott. Cal. 



A snout-beetle {Cercopeus clirysorliceus) belonging to the same family 

 as Fuller's Eose-beetle. and supposed to be the Grape Curctdio. was 

 found upon grapevine at Paris, Tex. 



A cuiTant-stem hoTQviOlyerea oceJJata] has been found breeding in the 

 twigs of Peach in Harris County, Tex. 



A new span-worm has been fotmd feeding on the bark and young 

 twigs of plum trees and doing considerable damage, at Mitchell. Ind. 



A new case-bearer of the genus Coleophora was found on the buds 

 of Blackberry in parts of Indiana. 



A beetle larva, belonging to the family Tenebrionidae and somewhat 

 resembling a wire-worm, was very injurious to the roots of peach and 

 plum trees in southern Cahfornia- 



An undescribed bug belonging to the genus Trapezonotus, has been 

 very injurious to fruit trees in Lead County, Idaho, by sapping them. 



A beetle (Ptyclwdes trlrittatus) is reported as girdling the twigs of 

 fig trees at Xew Orleans, La. 



Another snout-beetle (Tliricolepis inornaia) was found injuring the 

 foliage of young prune trees in Salem, Oregon. 



A plant-louse, undeterminable, was badly infesting orange leaves at 

 Santa Barbara, Cal. 



A larva belonging to the same genus (Heliothis) as the Boll Worm 

 was doing great damage to the leaves of axople and quince trees at 

 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 



An undetermined species of Lygus. one of the true bugs, was injur- 

 ing young pears at South Byi^on. X. T. 



Fidia Jongipes and F. murina, two leaf- feeding beetles, were injimous 

 to the leaves of grapevine at Tineland. Ark. 



