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: QUINCE 
QUINCE CUPCUI.I0 ( Conotrachelus crataegi Walsh) 
C. R. Crosby and assistants (July 18): Rather serious injury 
has resulted from the infestation in certain quince and pear 
orchards in Ontario County. In the few quince plantings found 
in Greene County this pest is quite abundant and injurious. 
PEACH 
GREEN PEACH APHID ( Myzus nersicae Sulz. ) 
Geo. P. Knowlton (July 2): The green peach aphid has been found 
damaging peach and truck crops but it is less numerous now than 
a little earlier in the season. 
PFACH BORER ( Aegeria exitiosa Say) 
W. P. Flint (July 20): S. C. Chandler reports emergence of the 
peach tree borer in larger numbers at this date than was the case 
last year. 
COTTONY PEACH SCALE ft Pulvinaria amygdali Ckll. ) 
C. R. Crosby and assistant (May 28): Several peach orchards in- 
fested at Lockport. 
E. P. Pelt (July 24): The cottony peach scale has been extremely 
abundant and somewhat injurious to peach trees in Niagara County, 
some branches being laterally festooned the last of June with the 
cottony masses of the females. 
BLACK PEACH APHID (Anuranhis persica e- niger Smith) 
J- 7. Adams (June): By estimate, 2d to 40 per cent of a block 
of 1,500 fall-planted peach trees have been killed at Hilton. 
PLUM CURCULIO (Co notrachelus nenuph ar Hbst. ) 
J. ?. Adams (June): Considerable injury to apple, peach, and 
cherry as usual in Sussex County. 
S. B. Fracker (July 10): A normal abundance on apple. 
ORIENTAL FRUIT MOTH ( Laspeyresia molesta Busck) 
Philip Sarman (June 24): Evidence of first-brood work in twigs 
is abundant in one large orchard near Yfellingford. (July 24): 
Much more abundant than last year. Second-brood larvae still 
in twigs and fruit at T&llingford. 
C. 0. Houghton and J. -F. Adams (June): Marked injury by this 
species has been observed at Newark and South Delaware. 
