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ANNUAL REPORT OF NEW-YORK 
CHERRY. UMBS. 
female makes in the limbs to deposit her eggs. With us it appears 
to resort to the maple more than any other tree, and in forests and 
frequently in the trees around our dwellings the loud shrill note 
of the male is heard every clear sunshiny day throughout dog- 
days. See Harris’s Treatise, p. 190. 
7 i . CnERRY bark-louse, Lecanium Cerasifex, new species. (Homoptera. 
Coccidae.) 
In June, adhering to the bark upon the under side of the limbs 
of the wild black cherry, a hemispherical shell nearly the size 
and shape of a half pea, of a black color more or less mottled 
with pale dull yellow dots, covering a mass of minute eggs the 
lice from which spread over the bark and subsist upon its juices. 
I find no bark-louse indicated by authors as occurring upon the 
cherry in Europe. We in this country have two insects of this 
family infesting trees of this kind, the one now mentioned and the 
following. 
75. Cherry scale insect, jispidiotus Cerasi, new species. (Homoptera. 
Coccidae.) 
In winter, on the bark of the choke cherry, little roundish 
white wax-like blisters, scarcely perceptible to the naked eye, 
containing beneath them in an open cavity a cluster of minute 
dull red or resin-like eggs. The history and habits of this species 
will be analogous to that of the Apple bark-louse, No. 15. 
affecting the leaves. 
7C. May beetle, Lachnosterna fusca, Frohlich. (Coleoptera.Melolonthida).) 
About the middle of May gathering by night upon the trees and 
eating the leaves, sometimes in such numbers as to wholly strip 
the foliage from the choicer varieties; a thick-bodied chestnut- 
brown or black beetle nearly an inch long, its legs of a lighter 
tawny yellow color and its breast coated with pale yellowish hairs. 
The larva of this insect lives under ground and is most inju¬ 
rious to meadows and pastures. It has been very destructive the 
present year in some parts of our State, and enquiries have been 
addressed to me for information respecting it and the best remedies 
