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habitat, 147. Descriptions of the moth antl larva, 148. Its European 

 history, 148. Its American history, 149. ^Vhen and wbere the moths 

 are seen, 150. Life-history of the insect, 150. Its injuries to stacked 

 hay, 150. Injury to timothy and possibly to straw, 150. Clover hay also 

 injured by another Pyralid, 151. Remedies and preventives; destruc- 

 tion of refuse hay in mows, circulation of air to prevent moisture, and 

 salting the lower part of stacks, and pyrethrum powder for killing the 

 larvae, 151. Preventive of attack desirable, 151. Need of knowing of 

 egg deposit, 151. 



Grapholitha interstincta>-a, the Clover-seed Caterpillar 152 



Bibliography, 152. Severe injury to clover seed in Miami county, 

 Indiana, 153. The "little clover" only infested, 153. The attack recog- 

 nized as that of the clover-seed caterpillar, 153. When the insect was 

 described, 153. Operations of the caterpillar first observed in 1874, at 

 Ithaca, N. Y., 153. Description of the larva, pupa, and imago, 153. 

 Figures of the same, 153. ^Vhen the eggs are deposited, 154. Work of 

 the larvae and subsequent life-history, 154. Three broods of the insect, 

 155. Exemption of the " mammoth clover " from attack, 155. Its work 

 confounded with that of the clover-seed midge, 155. The few localities 

 from which it has been reported, 155. Cutting the clover in early June 

 a preventive of injury, 155. Hulled seed safe from further injury, 156. 

 Two parasites of the insect known, 156. 



Antispila nyss^foliella, the Sour Gum-tree Case-Cutter 157 



Bibliography, 157. Leaves of Nyssa in New York, cut by the cater- 

 pillar for its pupating cases, 157. Where, also, it has been observed, 

 157. Items of life-history, 157. The larva and its mines, 158. How 

 the pupating case is made, 158. Description of the case, 158. Figures 

 of cases, 158. Additional items of life-history, 159. An allied species, 

 159. Eemedy, 159. 



TiscHERiA MALiFOLiELLA, the Apple Leaf Miner 160 



Bibliography, 160. Infestation of a Schenectady, N. Y., orchard, 160. 

 Description of the caterpillar and moth, 160. Mining operations of the 

 caterpillar and its mines, 161. When the eggs are laid, 161. The eggs 

 not observed, 161. Slow larval growth, 161. Cleanly habits of the 

 larva, 161. Its hibernation and pupation, 161. Emergence of the moth, 

 161. The injuries of the insect seldom serious, 161. Its distribution 

 extensive but local, 162. The larvaa feed on several of the Rosacese, 162. 

 Eemedy, burning the infested leaves, 162. 



