CONTENTS. 



PAQB. 



Introduction ----81 



Publications by the Entomologist -------- 83 



Contributions to the Department --------89 



Collections of the Entomologist --------91 



Insect Attacks and Miscellaneous Observations ------ 94 



Eggs of a Cut-worm on an Apple tree ------ 94 



The Canker-worm — Anisopteryx vernata {Peclc) - - - - 96 



The Apple-leaf Bucculatrix 97 



Ephestia Kuhniella as a Pest in Mills 99 



The Clover-seed Midge — Cecidomyia leguminicola - - - loO 

 Sciara sp. ? occurring on wheat -------- 101 



Helophilus similis Macquart -------- 103 



The Cabbage Fly — Anthomyia brassicae Bouche - - - _ 103 

 The Hessian Fly — Cecidomyia destructor Say - - - - 103 



A Lady-bug Attack on Scale-insects 104 



Oviposition of Saperda Candida Fabr. ------ 105 



The Clover-leaf Weevil destroyed by a Fungus 106 



The Pear-blight Beetle — Xyleborus pyri {Peck) . - - - 107 



Attack on young Pears by a Plant-bug -110 



Pcecilocapsus lineatus {Fal>r.) -------- 110 



An Experiment with the Thirteen-year Cicada Ill 



A Scale-insect Attack on Ivy --- 113 



The Cheese Mite infesting Smoked Meats - - - - - -114 



A Parasitic Mite attacking the Colorado Potato-beetle - - - 116 

 Another Parasitic Mite infesting a Beetle - - - - - -118 



A Mite Attack on Garden plants - - - - - - -118 



The Black-Knot of the Plum tree and its Guests - - - 120 



Notes upon various Insects - - - - - - - - -123 



Nisoniades Persius Scudder - - - - - - - -123 



Sphinx Canadensis Boisduval -------- 133 



Melittia cucurbitfe {Harris) __-._--- 123 

 Tinea pellionella Idnnceus - - - - - - - -133 



Mallota sp. ? - 133 



Anthrenus scrophularise {Linn) - - - - - - -133 



Thanasimus dubius {Fah\) --------- 133 



Macrodactylus subspinosus (i*^rt&r.) - - - - - - - 133 



Chrysochus auratus {Fahr.) - - - - - - - -134 



Trirhabda Canadensis {Kirhy) - - - - - - -134 



Hylesinus opaculus Leconte ___----- 124 



Phloeotribus liminaris (Harris) ------- 134 



CEcanthus niveus Harris - - - - - - - - -134 



Ephemera natata ( TFaZ/cer) -------- 134 



Insect index .--.--_ 127 



