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PEACH. LEAVES. 
It closely resembles the foregoing, but has three white or pale 
yellow stripes when young, and five when mature, and is also 
then freckled with pale dots. See No. 40. 
The Unstable drab moth, occurs also upon the peach, at the 
same time with the preceding, and most closely resembles it as 
already stated. See No. 41. 
03. PF.ACn Aphis, Aphis Persian ? Sulzer. (Homoptera. Aphid*.) 
This begins to appear upon the first small leaves which protrude 
from the buds and continues through the season unless swept away, 
as it frequently is, with surprising suddenness, by its several insect 
enemies. (See Transactions, 1854, pp. 767-806, where a full 
account of our American destroyers of the Aphides will be 
found.) It punctures the leaves to suck their juices and is a 
common though probably not the only cause of “ the curl.” It 
lives together in crowds, hid in the crevices of the curled, cor¬ 
rugated leaves, most of the individuals being larvae and wingless 
females. The winged individuals are 0.12 long, black with the 
under side of the abdomen dull green, the shanks and bases of 
the thighs pale brownish, and the horns or horny tubes as long as 
to the tip of the abdomen. This would appear to be different from 
the European peach aphis as figured in Koch’s invaluable mono¬ 
graph and described by Fonscolombe and others, though the wing 
veins coincide with Walker’s description. I however have not 
yet given this insect a careful examination, and have noticed indi¬ 
viduals so unlike those above described that they seemed to be 
another species. 
The Buffalo tree-hopper, a light green jumping insect shaped 
like a beech nut, puncturing and sucking the juices. See No. 22. 
The Saddled leaf-iiopper, a smallish oblong black jumping 
insect with a large bright yellow spot like a saddle upon the mid¬ 
dle of its back. See No. 69. 
AFFECTING THE FRUIT. 
The Blum weevil (No. 70) bores in the young fruit, causing it 
to drop from the tree. The Rose bug (No. 501 sometimes invades 
this fruit also, nibbling and killing it. 
