182 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Smith said the Lepidoptera were all of very recent types ; one 

 specimen was ahnost surely a Majnestra. The Hemiptera were also very 

 like species known to him, and at least one Dipteron represented a very 

 common Muscid type. 



Prof. Lintner gave some notes of observations made during the past 

 year. 



Orgyia leucostigma, else very common and destructive at Albany, was 

 this season very rare, and did no damage. Usually they defoliated the 

 elms and horse chestnuts, and sometimes when a heavy storm came on so 

 many were destroyed that they became offensive. This rarity is explained 

 by a severe frost which occurred in spring just as the larvae were hatching. 



Ax\ interesting note came from Prof. Cook, of Michigan, where 

 thousands of a Noctuid larva created fears for crops. The larva was bred, 

 and proved to be Agrotis fennica, usually considered rather a rare insect. 

 So common were they that they were called the black army worm. 



From Jamestown, N. Y., an Hemipterous insect, Fodisus cynica, has 

 been received, and it was there observed destroying the currant worm in 

 numbers. Its variety, P. hracteata Fitch., was associated with it. 



From the vicinity of Rochester Lygus lineolaris has been recorded as 

 injurious to young peas, piercing and blotching them, a fact not previously 

 noted. 



At Geneva, N. Y., Poecilocapsiis IhieaUis has seriously injured goose- 

 berry plants, stinging the branches at tip so that they died off two or three 

 inches downward. 



In Coleoptera, the Clover-leaf Beetle has spread westward, and has 

 nearly reached the western limits of the State. Some three years since it 

 was recorded from Yates and adjoining counties, and since has spread 

 rapidly ; moreover a new habit has been acquired, /. c. it now has attacked 

 beans. The insect is Phyionoinus piinctaUis, an imported species. 



The Asparagus Beetle, Crioceris asparagi, has made its appearance at 

 Geneva, N. Y Heretofore it has been confined pretty closely to the sea 

 shore, and though known for many years on Long Island, it has never 

 before manifested any tendency to spread. 



From Sycamore, Oswego Co., an interesting attack of Otiorhynchus 

 ligiieiis was reported ; there a house which for four years had been closed, 

 was opened and found swarming with these beetles ; they were every- 

 where, and in many rooms nearly a quart was swept up. What did they 

 feed on ? There was nothing eatable in the house : thev had been re- 



