EKTOMOLOGICAL PAPERS OF DR. FITCH. 299 



This essay contains many details of history and habits, which are not 

 repeated in the notice in tlie Seventh Report on the Insects of N. T. (pp. 

 134-144 of 6th-9tb Reports, 1865.) Remedial measures are discussed at 

 length, under the following heads: 1. A Rich Soil. 2. A Late Sow- 

 ing. 3. Grazing. 4. The Roller. 5. Mowing. 6. Fly-proof Wheat. 

 7. Steeps for the Seed. 8. Oats as a Decoy. 9. Wheat as a Decoy. 

 10. Deeply Covering the Seed. 11. Procuring Seed from Uninfested 

 Districts. 12. Sun-drying the Seed. 13. Drawing Elder Bushes over 

 the Young Plants. 14. Sprinkling Fine Salt, Ashes, or Caustic Lime 

 over the Young Plants. 15. Burning and Plowing up the Infested 

 Stubble. 



The above was also printed separately, in a pamphlet, Svo., Albany, 

 1846, pp. 63, 1 plate ; and also, Albany, 1847, pp. 60, 1 plate. 



1847. The Grain-moth — Tinea granella. (The Cultivator, New- 



Series — vol. iv, January, 1847, pp. 13, 14 — 54 cm.) 



Gives a general account of the species (description, habits, transfor- 

 mations, and remedies), with critical remarks upon the Angoumois 

 moth, Anacampsis f cerealella. 



1848. The Currant-Moth, Abraxas ? Ribearia. (Transactions of the 



New York State Agricultural Society, for 1847, vii, 1848, pp. 

 461-469, 1 pi., 11 figs.) 



Gives a popular description of the larva, with an account of its habits 

 and transformations, the nature and extent of its injuries, and reme- 

 dies useful against it. The insect is also scientifically described in its 

 larval, pupal and perfect stages, under the above name, being doubt- 

 fully referred to the genus Abraxas. In the plate, the three stages are 

 represented, with some structural enlargements. 



1849. Catalogue of the Insects in the State Cabinet of Natural His- 



tory, December 1, 1848. (Second Annual Report on the State 

 Cabinet of Natural History, 1849, pp. 25-39.) 



Gives a classified list of 608 examples, representing 358 species, of 

 which 32 species are Lepidoptera, 30 Neuroptera, and the remainder 

 Coleoptera. [This collection is no longer in existence, having been de- 

 stroyed by Anthrenus varius during the subsequent twenty years.] 



1850. [Insects infesting Sheep and other Domestic Animals], con- 



tained in ''A Historical, Topographical and Agricultural 

 Survey of the county of Washington." (Transactions of the 

 N. Y. State Agricultural Society, for 1849, ix, 1S50, pp. 753- 

 944.) 



Notices, popularly, the following insects, in pp. 797-804 : The sheep- 

 tick, Melophagus ovinus ; Ornithomyia amczd^irui, infesting owls; the 

 (Estridce — the bot-flies of the horse, GEstrus equi and (Estrus nasalis 

 (p. 799) ; the gad-fly of cattle, Hypoderma bovis ; the sheep gad-fly, 

 Cephalemyia ovis (p. 800); sheep maggots, Lucilia Cmsar (p. 801), 

 Lucilia cadaverina, Calliphora vomitoria (p. 802), and Calliphora fulvi- 

 harbis ; Musca domestica and Stomoxys calcitrans (p. 803) ; also remedies 

 and preventives for sheep maggots (p. 804) 



