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PEAR. LEAVES. 
rations like pin holes appearing at several of the buus, from which 
perforations issue a small cylindrical beetle of a deep brown or 
black color, its antennae and legs rust-yellow. Length 0.10, 
This works also in the trunk of the tree, earlier in the season, as 
already stated, page 327. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 78. 
AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 
Cherry slug-worm, Celandria Ccrasi. A shining slimy blackish 
slug worm, shaped like a tadpole, in June and July consuming 
the parenchyma of the leaves and leaving their veins entire; 
some years destroying almost the whole of the foliage. See Cherry 
insects, No. 92. 
57 . Goldsmith beetle , jfreoda lanigera, Linn. (Coleoptera. Scaralaeidu).) 
In May and June, eating the leaves of this and of various forest 
trees, a large thick oval beetle of a shining lemon-yellow color, 
its thorax of a greenish golden tinge, and its under side coppery 
or dark green with w'hite hairs. Length 0.80 to 1.00. See Har¬ 
ris’s Treatise, p. 21. 
AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 
58 . Pear blistering fly, Cantharis Pyrivora, new species. (Coleoptera. 
Meloidae.) 
Early in June devouring the young fruit, a long cylindrical 
blistering beetle, of a green-blue color and not shining, its legs 
orange yellow with the hips, knees, feet and tips of the shanks 
blue-black and the antennae black. Length 0.90. 
For specimens of this insect I am indebted to my friend Wm. 
S. Robertson, who informs me they were taken upon a pear tree 
at Canajoharie about the first of June, 1838. Soon after its flowers 
had fallen these beetles made their appearance, in numbers, eating 
the young fruit voraciously and in a short time destroying all or 
nearly all upon the tree. I have also received this same insect 
from the southern section of the State. It equals in size our 
largest American Cantharis hitherto known, the Nuttallii ol Say 
(fulgifei- Le Conte) but is destitute of the brilliancy belonging to 
