182 Forty-ninth Report on the State Museum 



Trelease : in Psyche, v, 1889, p. 173 {a.% Flagiodefu, abundance in West 

 and South). 



Casstdy: in Bull. 6 Col. Agr. Expt. Stat., Jan., i88g, p. 17 (annual de- 

 foliation of cottonwjods; as Plagiodera). 



Bruner: in Bull. 14 Agr. Expt. Stat. Neb., 1890, pp. 83-91, figs. 48-50. 



Lugger: in Bull. 9 Minn. Agr. Expt. Stat., 1889, pp. 53-55, figs. 3, 4 

 (life-history, remedies). 



Aldrich : in Insect Life, iv, 1 891, p. 67 (controlled by arsenites in South 

 Dakota). 



Orcutt-Aldrich : in Bull. 22 So. Dak. Agr, Expt. Stat., 1891, pp. 98- 

 ioi,figs. 13, 14 (food-plants, habits, remedies). 



Beutenmuller : in Journ. N. Y. Microscop. Soc, vii, 1891, p. 36 (refer- 

 ences to description of early stages). 



Lintner: 7th Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1891, p. 219 (abundant on Ausable 

 river); in Syracuse Journ., May 9, 1894 (injury to basket wil- 

 lows in N. Y., habits, history, remedies, etc.); loth Rept. Ins. 

 N. Y., 1895, pp. 500, 517 (reference). 



Williams: in Bull. 35 So. Dak. Agr. Expt. Stat., 1893, pp. 85-86. 



Chittenden: in Insect Life, vii, 1895, p. 419 (referred to Melasoma). 



WiCKHAM : in Canad. Entomol, xxviii, 1896, p. 202 (occurs chiefly on 

 poplars and cotton woods). 



The wonderful multiplication of species of insects, not usually injuri- 

 ous or, indeed, even rare, as the result of the cultivation of a crop on a 

 large scale and in extended areas, is often brought 

 to the notice of the economic entomologist, in appeals 

 made to him, to suggest remedies available against 

 the ravages of some (to the culturist) new insect pest. 

 A recent occurrence of this character, is the threat- 

 FiG. 14.— The cotton- ened destruction of the basket-willow industry of 



wood beetle, Lina 



scRiPTA. (Original.) Onondaga and some others of the Central and West- 

 ern New York counties, from the ravages of the insect which has been 

 known for the last score of years as the Striped Cottonwood beetle. Scien- 

 tifically it is Lina scripta (Fabr.). 



The Insect at Liverpool, N. Y. 



In May of 1894, there was sent to me by Internal Revenue Collector 

 Von Landberg, from Syracuse, N. Y., a bottle of beetles, with the in- 

 formation that the willow raisers of Liverpool and Salina and neighboring 

 localities were experiencing great trouble and serious loss from the ravages 

 of a beetle which was destroying acre after acre of the basket willows. 



What the insect is. — It was readily identified by me; and the request 

 for its identification and a remedy for it, was answered virtually as fol- 

 lows : " The beetle is a member of the destructive family of leaf-eating 

 beetles, known as Chrysomclid(X, which is found from New York to Texas, 

 in Oregon and California, but is the most destructive along the Missouri 



