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Report of the State Entomologist. 



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Speyer: Europ.-amer. Yerwantschaften, in Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1870, p. 107; 

 id., 1875, p. 134. 



Grote: List. Noct. N. A., in Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1873, p. 135 

 (identical with A. inermis Harris); id., ii, 1874, p. 11; id., 1875, pp. 

 308, 314; in 6th Kept. Peab. Acad. Sci., 1874, p. 22 (Eur. and Amer.) ; 

 in Bull. G.-G. Surv. Terr., vi, No. 1, 1881, p. 163. 



Morrison: in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xvii, 1875 (in Texas, and 

 identical with A. Ortonii Pack.). 



French: in Trans. 111. Hort. Soc, xi, 1877, pp. 192-194 (habits, etc.); in 7th 

 Kept. Ins. 111., 1878, pp. 94-5, 211-213 (description, habits, food- 

 plants, etc.). 



Lintner: Ent. Contrib., IV (in 30th Kept. ft. Y. St. Mus. Nat. Hist.), 1878, 



p. 45 (dates of collection), p. 53 (in Patagonia) ; in 44th Kept. N. Y. 



St. Agr. Soc. for 1884, pp. 62, 63, 64 (food-plants), 68; in 39th Ann. 



Kept. [N. Y.] St. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1886, pp. 94, 95 ; in Trans. N. Y. 



St. Agricul. Soc. for 1888, pp. 71, 74, 75, 79, 85 ; Bull. N. Y. St. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., No. 6, 1888, pp. 8, 11, 12, 16, 22, figs. 11, 21. 

 Marten : in 10th Kept. Ins. 111., 1881, p. 134 (description and habits of larva). 



From Mr. P. Barry, of the Mount Hope Nurseries at Rochester, 

 N. Y., some apple twigs, containing an egg-deposit from which the 

 larvse were emerging, were received on May seventh. The eggs had 

 been sent to him for name, from Centralia, Kansas. 



The Eggs. 



The twigs were quite small, not exceeding one-sixth of an inch in 

 diameter. The eggs were closely and symmetri- 

 cally arranged, in a single layer, in regular rows 

 joined to one another, forming an unbroken patch. 

 In one example there were seven rows of about 

 sixty eggs in each, extending over about an inch 

 and a half of the twig. The eggs, upon the point 

 of hatching, were of a lavender color. They were 

 round, with about forty sharp and prominent 

 longitudinal ribs, which were connected some- 

 what irregularly with numerous transverse lines. 

 In Figure 16, at a, one is shown in enlargement, 

 and at b, a twig with one of the egg-deposits is 

 represented. 



Desiring to learn more of the occurrence of the aqrotis saucia greai> 

 eggs, I addressed a request for the information ly enlarged; b, eggs 

 to Mr. A. Oberndorf, Jr., of Centralia, Kansas, 

 from whom the eggs had been sent to Mr. Barry, size. 

 The following communication was sent in reply, under date of May 

 twentieth : 



Up to the seventeenth inst. I have found the eggs on the twigs 

 and bodies and branches of young apple, pear, and peach trees, but 

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