288 Forty-fifth Beport on the State Museum. 



Albany, drawn to lights -within, late in September. No satisfactory cause 

 can be assigned for such assemblies of this moth. In butterflies, as in 

 Danais Arcliippus, it is not rare. 



The Squash Bug. (Country Gentleman, for October 22, 1891, 

 Ivi, p. 854, c. 4 — 11 cm.) 



Anasa tristis (De Geer), pupa and imago, is identified in examples from 

 Lowell, Mass., and a brief sketch of its habits and transformations given. It 

 matures in September and October, and then passes eight months in its 

 winter retreat. 



A Destructive Potato Aphis. (Countr}^ Gentleman, for October 

 22, 1891. Ivi. p. S57, c. 4— 20 cm.) 



Aphides reported from Hamburg and Kingston, Pa., as having destroyed 

 hundreds of acres of potatoes, and injured cabbages, on the bottom lands of 

 the Susquehanna River, can not be identified from the poor, wingless 

 examples sent. They are not referable to any of the four species known to 

 feed on the potato. The range of its occurrence, so far as observed, is given. 



White Grubs. (Country Gentleman, for October 29, 1891, Ivi, 

 p. 875. c. 4 — 13 cm.) 



White grubs sent for name from Eed Bank, N. J., may be those of 

 Lachnosterna fusca (Frohl.): but it is impossible to identify positively any of 

 the twenty-five or more species that belong to the fasca gi'oup. Writings of 

 Dr. Horn and of Professor Smith on these species quoted. 



[See in pp. 174, 175 of this Report (viii).] 



Sprayed Grapes are Harmless. (Entomological ISTews, for 

 November, 1891, ii, p. 181 — 6 cm.) 



Quotes an item given to the Associated Press, in which the recent seizure 

 and destruction in the New York market, under the direction of the Board 

 of Health, of grapes that had been sprayed with Bordeaux mixture for 

 the prevention of fungus attacks, is pronounced unjustifiable and renderings 

 the officers liable to prosecution for damages. There was not a poisonous 

 amount of copper <in the grapes seized, and the little observed on the stems 

 could readily have been removed by a bath of water and vinegar. 



The Pear Midge, Diplosis pyrivorain New York. (Canadian Ento- 

 mologist, for Xovember, 1891, xxiii, p. 224.) 



Noticed for the first time in New York the present year, at CatskiU, N. Y. : 

 number of the larvae in a single pear: habits of the larva?: proposition to 

 destroy the larvfe by blighting the blossoms. 



On the Eye-Spotted Bud Moth in Western i^ew York. (Canadian 



Entomologist, for Xovember, 1891, xxiii, p. 231.) 



Abundance of Tmetocera ocellana: habits of the caterpillar: difficulty of 

 reaching the larva with insecticides: does it hibernate only as a larva? 

 methods tliat mav be available for its destruction. 



