CONTENTS. 



FAOB. 



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-worfti — Anisopteryx vernata {Peck) - - - - 96 



The Apple-leaf Bucculatrix 97 



Ephestia Kuhniella as a Pest in Mills 99 



The Clover-seed Midge — Cecidomyia leguminicola _ . . \qq 

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



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



The Cabbage Fly — Anthomyia brassicfe Boiiche - - - - 103 



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

 A Lady-bug Attack on Scale-insects ------- 104 



Oviposition of Saperda Candida Fah'. ------ 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 (Fahr.) - - - - - - - -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 --------- 122 



Nisoniades Persius Scudder - - - - - - - -122 



Sphinx Canadensis Boisduval -------- 122 



Melittia cucurbitte (Harris) - - - - - - - -122 



Tinea pellionella Linmeus -------- 122 



Mallota sp. ? 123 



Anthrenus scrophularije (Linn.) ------- 123 



Thanasimus dubius (Fahr.) --------- 123 



Macrodactylus subspinosus (i'Vt^/r.) - - - - - - -123 



Chrysochus auratus (Fahr.) - - - - - - - -124 



Trirhabda Canadensis (Kirhj) - - - - - - -124 



Hyleainus opaculus Leconte ---.-._- 124 



, Phlceotribus limiuaris (Harrisi) ....... 124 



CEcanthus niveus Harris - - - - - - - - -124 



Ephemera natata ( TTrtZ/cer) -------- 12-1 



Insect index -.-•...------ 127 



