286 - Forty- FIFTH Report on the State Museum. 



Foes of the Kilmarnock Willow. (Orange County Farmer, for 

 September 3. 1891, x, p. l, c. 2 — 6 cm.) 



A^^scale-insect reported as blighting the Kilmarnocli willows at Port 

 Jervis, N. Y., is identified as the apple-tree bark-louse, Mytilaspis 

 pomorum Bouche. Remedies recommended are spraying with kerosene 

 emulsion at any time, or with a soap solution or tobacco water at the time 

 of egg-hatching. 



The New Dairy Pest. (Oswego Semi-Weekly Times, for Sep 

 tember 4, 1891, ii, p. 1, c. 1 — 52 cm.) 



Occurs in Oswego county, and how introduced : what the fly is : its 

 present distribution in the State : its injuries to cattle : when most trouble- 

 some : how its increase may be prevented, and how it may be repelled 

 from cattle. 



[See in pp. 192-194 of this Report (viii).] 



The Cow-Horn Fly in IS'ew York. (Country Gentleman, for Sep- 

 tember 10, 1891, Ivi, p. 735, c. 2, 3—41 cm.) 



Reference to its appearance and injuries in other States and notice of its 

 occurrence in New York last year, and in Oswego and Steuben counties the 

 present year. Efforts should be made to arrest its spread, and how it may 

 be done. Reference to the literature of the insect. 



[See in pp. 195-197 of this Report (viii).] 



Leaf-Eating Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for September 10 



1891, Ivi, p. 735, c. 3 — 5 cm.) 



A beetle taken on a cherry tree at Little Falls, N. Y. , is Euphoria fulgida 

 (Fabr.) — a beautiful insect, allied in habits to the May-bug. It is common 

 in the Western States, but rather rare in the State of New York. 



Elm-Leaf Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for September 10, 1891, 



Ivi, p. 735, c. 3 — 6 cm.) ' 



Larvae sent from Red Bank, N. J., do not permit positive identification, but 

 are probably those of Galeruca xanthomelcena. The remedy for it is spray- 

 ing with London purple. 



Grape Curculio. (Country Gentleman, for September 10, 1891, 

 Ivi, p. 735, c. 3, 4 — 16 cm.) 



Grapes ruined by the puncture of some insect, at Sanford, Tenn., are 

 infested by the larvae of the grape curculio, Craponius incequalis Say. The 

 appearance of the injured grape is described, and also the larva and the 

 beetle. Preventives recommended are bagging the grapes, jarring off the 

 beetle in June, and working the ground to destroy the immature insect. 

 [In MS. of Ninth Report.] 

 Measuring Worm. (Country Gentleman, for September 10, 1891, 

 Ivi, p. 735, c. 4 — 8 cm.) 



A caterpillar sent for name, from Green Grove, Pa., had spun up in a 

 cocoon when received, and can not therefore be named. Its appearance, as 



