CONTENTS 



345 



PAGE. 



insect and citation of literature, 407. Notice of Agrilus torpidua in Fifth Report, 

 referred to, 407. The specific name of torpidus gives way to the earlier name of 

 auxins, 407. Range of the insect, 407. The gall that it produces in willow, 407. 



Anomala luoicola, the Light-loving Grapevine Beetle 408 



Its bibliography and synonymy, 408. Exception taken to its popular name, it being a 

 night-feeding insect, 408. General features of the beetle, 408. Its description by Dr. 

 Fitch, 409. Great variation in color of the beetles, 408. Believed to be largely sexual 

 diflfereace, 409. Figure of the beetle, 409. Its description by Dr. Horn, 409. Flight 

 and other habits of the beetles, 410. Injuries to grapevines, 410. Reported as feeding 

 on pines in Pennsylvania, 410. A preventive is dusting grapevines with air-slaked lime, 

 410. The best remedy is shaking them from the foliage on cloths and killing them, 

 410. Broad distribution of the insect in the United States, 410. Little known of its 

 life-history, 410. Should not the insect bear the name of Anomala mo&rens ? 410 



Anomala marginata, the Margined Anomala 410 



Bibliography, 411 . A destructive grapevine beetle, 411 . Letter from North Carolina 

 telling of its numbers, voracity, and ravages, 411. Especially a Southern insect, 412. 

 Its distribution, 412. Occurs in New Jersey, but not known in New York, 412. Little 

 recorded of its habits, 412. Briefly noticed in "Insect Life," 412. Its description by 

 Dr. Horn, 412. Its curious claw figured, 413. The beetles should be shaken from the 

 foliage and caught for killing, 413. The "collectors" described by Dr. Smith com- 

 mended for the purpose, 413, Three other grapevine Anomalas named, 413. 



DiABBOTiCA viTTATA, the Striped Cucumber Beetle 413 



A letter claiming immunity from injuries by this insect to plants grown beneath a 

 black walnut-tree, 413-4. Reasons for the belief, 414. Reference to protection from 

 the same insect by planting beans, 414. Similar statements of supposed effects of vari- 

 ous plants in repelHng insect attacks, 414 . '' 



DiBOLiA BORBALis, a Plantain-Leaf Miner 414 



Its bibliography, 414. Leaves mined by the insect received from Alcove, N. Y., 414. 

 The beetles reared from them and identified, 414. Dr. Hamilton quoted upon them, 414. 

 Extensive mining of plantain leaves in Massachusetts, as reported by Prof. Storer, 414. 

 Habits and transformations of the insect, as observed by Prof. Rolfs at La Claire, 

 Iowa, 415. Prof. Comstock has written of it as a miner in turnip leaves, 415. Taken 

 in Washington, D. C, in sweeping the grass of a lawn, 415. Observed in January at 

 Vicksburg, Miss., sitting on fence-posts, etc., 415. Description of the beetle from Horn, 

 416. Is distributed over the entire eastern Uaited States, 416. May possibly occur in 

 Mexico under the name of Dibolia ovata, 416. 



OTioRETTNCHns ovATUs, the Ovato Snout-Beetle 416 



Its bibliography, 416, 417. Noticed in preceding Reports as infestiag dwelling-houses 

 in Lycoming, Potsdam, and Morichjs, in New York, 417. Further account of the Pots- 



44 



