358 Report of the Entomologists. 



1872. Packard, A. S. 19 Ann. Rept. Mass. Bd. Agr. (Packard's Second 

 Ann. Kept., Injurious Insects of Mass.), pp. 343-344. Brief description 

 of larva and adult. Mentions shaking off larva as a means of combating 

 the insect. Illustrated. 



1873. Saunders, W. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont, 1873, pp. 11-12. Descriptions 

 of egg, larva and adult female, with very full notes on life history. 



Ibid, Can. Ent., June, I, 5, pp. 101-103. 

 1S76. Thomas, C. Trans. Dept. Agr., 111., 1876, p. 61. Appeared in in- 

 jurious numbers in northern and western Illinois in 1876; suggests helle- 

 bore as remedy. 



1877. Perkins, G. H. Fourth Rept. Vt. Bd. Agr., p. 151. Brief account 

 of life history, with brief popular descriptions of larva and adult female. 

 Suggests Paris green and hellebore as remedies. 



1878. Heffmeister, A. W. Ann. Rept. Iowa State Hort. Soc, 1877-1878, 

 pp. 243-246. Briefly mentioned. 



1882. Lintner, J. A. First Report, p. 42. Mentioned. 



1883. Goding, F. W. Rept. Iowa State Bd. Agr., 1882-3, p. 322. 



1885. Saunders, W. Fifteenth Ann. Rept. Ont. Ent. Soc, p. 18. Briefly 

 mentioned. Abundant near Drummondsville and vicinity. 



Harrington, W. H. Ibid, p. 70. Brief notes on life history; 

 abundant during the season of 1884. 



1886. Saunders, W. Sixteenth Ann. Rept. Ont. Ent. Soc, pp. 14-15. 

 Descriptions of egg, larva and adult female. Hellebore and Paris green 

 recommended as remedies. 



1887. Webster, F. M. Trans. Ind. Hort. Soc, p. 107. Briefly men- 

 tioned. 



Weed, C. M. Ann. Rept. Ohio Agrl. Exp. Sta., pp. 155-156. Brief 

 notes; remedy, hellebore. 



1889. Weed, C. M. Bui. Ohio Agrl. Exp. Sta., Vol. II, No. 1 (2d series), 

 p. 5. Brief notes. 



Townsend, Tyler. Insect Life, II, 2, p. 42. Mentions Selandria 

 (MonophadnusJ rvM as being abundant in the vicinity of Constantine, 

 St. Joseph Co., Mich., from 1S81-1886. 



1891. Weed, C. M. Ann. Rept. Columbus Hort. Soc for 1890. 



1892. Smith, J. B. Insect Life, V, 2, p. 96. Injuriously abundant in 

 some sections of New Jersey in 1892, although not common the year 

 previous. 



Ibid, Ann. Rept. N. J. Agrl. Exp. Sta., 1892, pp. 459^61. 



Webster, F. M. Bui. 45, Ohio Agrl. Exp. Sta., pp. 154-155. Brief 

 review of early literature; notes on life history and habits. 



Kellogg, V. L. Common Injurious Insects of Kansas, pp. 93-94. 

 Describes larva and adult and gives life history. Remedies, hand picking, 

 white hellebore applied dry or in a spray. 



1895. Davis, G. C. Bui. 121, Mich. Agrl. Exp. Sta., p. 56. Brief notes. 

 Sometimes quite destructive in Michigan. Remedies, hellebore and ar- 

 senites. 



