REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I904 419 



Dust Sprays. Country Gentlemen, Nov. 5, 1903, 68:948^^ 

 Method of preparing dust spray and range of usefulness. 



Mosquitos. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Nov. 8, 1903, p. 12 

 Summary of recommendations for control. 



Sprays for San Jos^ Scale, Cotintry Gentleman, Nov. 12, 1903, 

 68:972^2 



Summary of results in 1903, with lime-siolfur wash, whale oil soap solution 

 and crude petroleum against Aspidiotus perniciosus Comst. 

 Insects Affecting Forest Trees. For., Fish and Game Com. 7th 



Rep't 1901, p. 449-531, pi. 16. 



Issued Nov. 1903. Also issued separately. 



Accounts based on original observations are given of the following species : 



Insects affecting the pine : turpentine bark beetle, Dendroctonus 

 terebrans Oliv. ; coarse writing bark beetle, Tomicus calli- 

 g r a p h u s Germ. ; southern tomicus, Tomicus cacographus 

 Lee. ; pine bark beetle, Tomicus pini Say ; Tomicus caelatus 

 Eich. ; Pityogenes species ; Pityophthorus species ; ribbed rha- 

 gium, Rhagium lineatum Oliv. ; Pythoamericanus Kirby ; 

 pine sawyer, Monohammus confusor Kirby ; Xyloterus bivit- 

 t a t u s Kirby ; Gnathotrichus materiarius Fitch ; white ants, 

 Termes flavipes Kollar; white pine weevil, Pissodes strobi Peck; 

 Pales weevil, Hylobius pales Herbst.; Magdalis perforata 

 Horn. ; Magdalis alutacea Lee. ; pitch tip moth, Pinipestis 

 zimmermani Grote ; Nantucket pine moth, Retinia [Evetria] 

 frustrana Scudd. ; pitch pine Retinia, Retinia [Evetria] rigi- 

 d a n a Fern. ; pitch twig moth, Retinia [Evetria] comstocki- 

 a n a Fern. ; pitch-inhabiting midge, Diplosis resinicola Osten- 

 Sacken ; pine barK Chermes, Chermes pinicorticis Fitch ; spittle 

 insects : Aphrophora saratogensis Fitch ; Aphrophora 

 parallela Say ; Aphrophora quadrangularis Say ; Le 

 Conte's sawfly, Lophyrus lecontei Fitch; light-loving grapevine 

 beetle, Anomala lucicola Fabr. ; pine Chrysomela, G 1 y p t o - 

 scelis pubescens Fabr. ; imperial moth, Basilona imperi- 

 al i s Drury ; pine leaf miner, Gelechia pinifoliella Chamb. ; 

 pitch-pine needle gall fly, Diplosis pini-rigidae Pack. ; pine 

 leaf scale insect, Chionaspis pinifoliae Fitch ; Chrysobo- 

 thris floricola Gory ; Chrysobothris pusilla Bap. & 

 Gory ; Chrysobothris dentipes Germ. ; pine flower cricket,, 

 Oecanthus pini Beut. 



Insects affecting the spruce : de&tructive spruce bark borer, P o 1 y - 

 graphus rufipennis Kirby ; Cryphalus striatulus 

 Mann. ; Dryocoetes species ; Xyloterus politus Say ; M o- 

 narthrum mali Fitch. 



Insects affecting the balsam : balsam bark borer, Tomicus bal- 

 sa m e u s Lee. ; large black carpenter ant, Camponotus hercu- 

 1 a n e u s Linn. 



Insects affecting arbor vitae : Phlaeosinus dentatus Say. 



Insects injurious to oaks: yellow striped oak caterpillar, Anisota 

 senatoria Abb. & Sm. ; buck or Maia moth, Hemileuca maia 

 Drury; Cacoecia fervidana Clem.; Serica trociformis 



