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

 history, 148. Its American history, 149. When and where 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 pyrethrnra powder for killing the 

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

 egg deposit, 151. 



CtRAPHOLiTHA INTEKSTINCTANA, the Clover-sced Catoi pillar 152 



Biltliography, 152. Severe injury to clover seed in Minmi 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 

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

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

 the larviB 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. 



ANTisriLA KYSS^FOIJELLA, the Sour Gum tree Case-Cutter 157 



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

 pillar for its pui)atiug 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-bistory, 159. An allied species, 

 159. Remedy, 159. 



TiscHERiA MALiFOLiELLA, the Apple Leaf Miner 160 



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

 Description of tlie caterpillar and motb, 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 larvje feed on several of the Rosacese, 162. 

 Remedy, burning the infested leaves, 162. 



Cecidomyia bktul^, the Birch-seed Midge 162 



Bibliography, 162. Discovery of the iufested seeds, 162. Abundance 

 in Albany, 162. How larval presence may be delected, 163. The Midge 

 identified, 163. Development of the larvae, 163. European history of the 

 insect, 164. Attacked by a parasite, 164. Larva described at maturity, 



