. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York . arit that it might easily have received (juite an amount of the honey-dcAVdropping from the plant-lice. The specimen was identified by A. Peck, State Botanist, as the above-named species of or three other examples of the same had been seen by Miss Ilinies. Phylloxera vitifolise (Fitch).The Grapevine Phylloxera. Leaves of grapevine having their under surface almost entirelycovered with the galls of this insect, similar to the representation inFigure 28, were received Au-gust 6th, from Director Col-lier
. Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York . arit that it might easily have received (juite an amount of the honey-dcAVdropping from the plant-lice. The specimen was identified by A. Peck, State Botanist, as the above-named species of or three other examples of the same had been seen by Miss Ilinies. Phylloxera vitifolise (Fitch).The Grapevine Phylloxera. Leaves of grapevine having their under surface almost entirelycovered with the galls of this insect, similar to the representation inFigure 28, were received Au-gust 6th, from Director Col-lier, of the New York StaleAgricultural Experiment Sta-tion. They were from thevineyards of Mr. Edwin Slo-combe, of Camillus, N. Y.,who reported the foliage ofhis Delaware grapes as beingliterally covered with thegalls, as shown in the examplessent. The insects emerged afew days after the receptionof the leaves. Dr. Collier states that theinsect has been quite plentifulon the Clinton grape, in the vineyards at the Station, and had also-appeared on a few other Fig. -Grapevine leaf with galls of Phylloxera Crangonyx mucronatus Blind Shrimp in, Wells. Several examples of this crustacean were received from Oswego,^N. Y., where they were taken from the water of a driven well ofmoderate depth, located in a gravelly soil, on a rising knoll. Thecreatures are slender forms, white, about a half-inch in length, with 348 Forty-sixth Report on the State Museum rather long legs, and otlier thread-like terminal organs. They arenot occurring abundantly at the present time, but usually in the autumnsmall ones of the same general appearance are quite numerous. The gentleman sending them desired to know what they were, andtheir source, as he feared that they might render the water unfit fordomestic use. It proves to be an interesting species of fresh-water shrimp whichoccurs only in such unusual localities as wells and subterranean the blind craw-fis
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