. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. 266 Forty-first Report on the State Museuil. lights, it has of late in many localities become known as " the electric- light ; Ceresa bubalus (Fabr.). — Several twigs of apple-tree from the nursery of Maxwell Brothers, at Geneva, N. Y., com- municated by Mr. Goff, contained the egg-deposits of the "buffalo ; A piece of a twig two and a half inches long showed eighteen of these deposits, averaging eighteen eggs in each. Figure 61, repre- sents the insect,
. Annual report of the Trustees of the State Museum of Natural History for the year ... Science; Museums. 266 Forty-first Report on the State Museuil. lights, it has of late in many localities become known as " the electric- light ; Ceresa bubalus (Fabr.). — Several twigs of apple-tree from the nursery of Maxwell Brothers, at Geneva, N. Y., com- municated by Mr. Goff, contained the egg-deposits of the "buffalo ; A piece of a twig two and a half inches long showed eighteen of these deposits, averaging eighteen eggs in each. Figure 61, repre- sents the insect, enlarged to about twice its natural size. Fig. 61—Ceresa As the mode of oviposition has been differently BUBALUsiFabr.), n. ., , i t«. , ., n . enlarged. described by different writers, and m some cases erro- neously, it is with pleasure that we give place to a portion of a note recently communicated to the "Industrialist," of Manhattan, Kansas, upon the method of egg-laying in this insect, by Professor Popenoe, with the figures which satisfactorily illustrate it. " The irregularly circular or oblong scars, resulting from the growth of the injured bark upon branches and twigs punctured by the insect in question, occur numerously on the twigs of vari- ous trees, especially upon the willow, soft maple and apple. In a young apple orchard in this vicinity, the scars were so numerous that the growth of the trees was lessened and their shape injured in consequence. The slits in the bark, made by the ovipositor of the female tree- hopper, are two in a place, slightly curved, their concave sides facing. The strip of bark between these slits is separated from the wood, as the insect thrusts the ovipositor from each slit to the bark under or beyond Buffalo tree-hop- ^j^g Opposite slit, the eggS in per, Ceresa bubalus; showing the insect at i ?'^?'- i ? ^ • • wood, a section each row having been mtro- of a twig with
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