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siderable numbers, late in September, which I have sent to several 
correspondents in Europe who have written me that they were quite 
unlike anything there. These proved to be like the slate-colored 
and red mixed form mentioned above, except considerably 
larger; I can see no difference except in size. There is no cran¬ 
berry growing where these are found, but other related plants, as 
blueberry, upon which they might have fed. My impression is 
that they hibernate in the imago state, but of this I am not sure. 
A few years ago I received several specimens from Mr. G. M. 
Dodge of Glencoe, Neb., ‘bred on wild rose,’ which are so like 
those taken here that 1 could separate them onty by their greater 
depth of coloring and their much larger size, for they are as much 
larger than those taken here, as these are larger than those from 
Prof. Biley and others from Texas. I received T. minuta from Mr. 
Dodge, and also from Mr. Morrison, taken in Nevada, and they 
also were unusally large. I am, ^therefore, inclined to believe 
them all the same species, but I am not yet ready to concede that 
oxycoccana is the same thing. It will be better to allow it to 
remain separate till it can be proved to be the same, rather than 
to unite them now, and separate them later, should they prove 
distinct. 
“The synonymy is as follows: 
Ter as minuta. 
Tortrix minuta, Bobs., 1869. 
Tortrix malivorana, Le Baron, 1870. 
Tortrix vacciniivorana, Pack., 1870. 
Teras variolana, Zell., 1875. 
“The above are the orange forms. 
Tortrix Cinderella, Biley, 1872. 
“Biley’s name may be used to indicate the slate-colored form. 
Bobinson’s T. minuta was published in February, 1869, and 
Packard’s T. oxycoccana not until April, 1869.” 
The species next attracted attention during 1883 and ’84 by its 
extraordinary abundance in nurseries in McLean county, Illinois. 
Prof. S. A. Forbes called attention to the outbreak in a paper 
read before the State Horticultural Society in 1884, (Transactions, 
p. 124), stating that thick-leaved trees were relatively little 
affected, but that all the others were so seriously checked in their 
growth as to excite the serious apprehension of the owner. As 
to remedies, Prof. Forbes stated.that “methods of precaution must 
be the main reliance,” and also recommended that the foliage be 
sprayed with arsenical mixtures early in the season, when the 
injury is just beginning. 
Similar observations concerning the same attack were published 
in the Fourteenth Beport of the State Entomologist of Illinois. 
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