258 
gathered and destroyed, as they may be easily known by their ap¬ 
pearance, unless the grapes have been attacked by grape rot. As the 
worm feeds inside the berry, appliances of poisons to the vines will be 
of but little service, as they would fail to reach the insect. 
Anchylopera fragarijE, Riley.—The Strawberry Leaf-roller. 
In the number for December 1, 1877, of the Prairie Farmer, ap¬ 
peared the following communication from Prof. Thomas in regard to 
this insect in answer to a correspondent who had sent the insects to 
this office for identification. 
“The insects sent by Porter & Bro., Mackinaw, were received in 
good order, having been properly and very carefully packed. There 
were none of the specimens in the perfect or moth state, but the 
caterpillar and its work as shown by the leaves sent and the state¬ 
ment of Messrs. Porter & Bro., are amply sufficient to determine with¬ 
out doubt, it is the Strawberry Leaf-roller, first described in the 
American Entomologist for January 1869. It has been, as I learn, 
doing considerable injury to strawberry plants during this autumn 
in central and northern Illinois, but so far I have heard no com¬ 
plaint against it in the southern part of the state, in fact, it appears, 
from all the evidence I can obtain, to be a northern insect seldom ex¬ 
tending further south than the southern border of the central section 
of the state. 
“The letter accompanying the specimens makes the following state¬ 
ments in reference to its operations this season. ‘We know nothing 
of the habit of it. We first discovered them on our strawberry plants 
about six weeks ago, (date of letter Nov. 8.) About the same time 
we saw an article in the Bloomington Pantagraph, describing the 
same worm and stating that a good many plantations about Bloom¬ 
ington and Normal had been entirely destroyed by them, while some 
were saving theirs by hand picking, (which we think would be an 
endless job on matted rows.) We judge that it is not a new thing 
in the west as we find two or three inquiries about it in the Fruit 
Record in the last two or three years. We copy an extract from 
a correspondent at Waupun, Wis., in October number of the Fruit 
Record for 1874, signed W. Sperry. 
“ ‘I with others have been troubled with white grubs m our straw¬ 
berry beds for five years, but that is nothing compared to a very 
formidable foe in the shape of a small worm on the leaves, about one- 
third of an inch in length, of a yellowish green. They form a web 
on the upper side of the leaf, which causes the leaf to double up and 
shut them in. They do not eat the leaves, but the plant turns rusty 
and soon dies. They so completely destroy old beds of one or more years 
standing that not one green leaf is left. The pest is not confined to 
Waupun, but is equally bad in other parts of the State.’ The editor 
answers: ‘The worm spoken of is quite prevalent over the West, 
but suggests no remedy. Our experience corresponds with the above, 
and out- plants had that rusty appearance, and were dying, until the 
rains set in about a month ago; since then they seemed to have 
