Ninth Report of the State Entomologist 457 



Description of a Convenient Insect Case. (Twenty -sixth Report 

 on the ^". Y. State Museum of Natural History, 1874, pp. 

 185-188. Entomological Contributions — Xo. Ill, 1874, pp. 

 185-188, 3 figures.) Also in Fifth Report on the Insects of 

 Missouri, 1873, pp. 38-40, fig. 21. 



Describes the construction of a case with glass sides, on one of which 

 pieces of cork are cemented for holding tlie insects — the whole to be bound 

 in the form of a folio volume ; also, of less expensive unbound cases. 



[The above is also contained in Dr. Riley's " Directions for Collecting and 

 Preserving Insects" (pp. 101-104), published by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 in 1892.] 



The Three-lined Leaf-Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for July 23, 

 1874, xxxix, p. 471, c. 1 — 17 cm.) 



The insect, Lema trilineata (Oliv.), received from Clyde, N. Y., from 

 potato vines, is described, its larval habits and transformations given, and 

 the remedies for it. 



[See notice in the Second Report of the Insects of New York, 1885, pp. 

 132-136, figs. 32, 83.] 



The Soldier Bug. (Country Gentleman, for July 23, 1874, xxxix, 

 p. 471, c. 1, 'Ji — 12 cm.) 



Anna spinosa DaUas, sent from Carbon Cliff, 111., is a valuable agent in 

 the destruction of the Colorado potato-beetle. 



[Published in the Sixth Report on the Insects of Neio York, 1890, p. 137, 

 fig. 18, as Podisus spinosus (Dallas).] 



A Timothy Eater. (Country Gentleman, for July 23, 1874, 

 xxxix, p. 471, c. 2 — 9 cm.) 



Notice of an unknown caterpillar feeding upon the heads of timothy at 

 Jarrettown, Pennsylvania. They spun up in slight cocoons of pieces of 

 grass and bits of wood, from which it is hoped to obtain the moth for iden- 

 tification. 



[The moth was Leiicania sp.? See, also, the Country Gentleman 

 for August 6, p. 505, c. 1, where the caterpillar is reported as eating at the 

 heart of corn, and on wheat.] 



The Raspberry Borer. (Country Gentleman, for July 30, 1874, 

 xxxix, p. 487, c. 1 — 15 cm.) 



Description of Oherea tripunctata (Fabr.), found in Potsdam, N. Y., gird- 

 ing the canes of the raspberry ; of the manner in which the canes are ringed , 

 the injury caused by it, and suggestions for the prevention of its increase. 



[Extended in the Fifth Report on the Insects of New York, 1889, pp. 

 231-233, fig. 28 — as Oherea bimaculata (Ohv.).] 



