300 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



1851. Catalogue with References and Descriptions of the [New York] 

 Insects [of the suborder Homoptera] collected and arranged 

 for the State Cabinet of Natural History. (Fourth Annual 

 Report on the State Cabinet of Natural History, 1851, pp, 

 43-69.) 



The catalogue embraces all of tlie New York Homoptera known to 

 Dr. Fitch, represented in 266 examples. It contains notes upon 138 

 species, of which 83 are described as new, occurring in the several 

 families as follows ; In the CicadidcB, 4 species are noticed; Fulgoridae, 

 14 species, of which 6 are new ; Memhracidce, 31 species, of which 14 

 are new ; Cercopidce, 8 species — 4 new ; Tettigojiiidcs, 46 species — 32 

 new ; Psyllidm, 6 species — all new ; Aphidm, 26 species — 18 new ; Coc- 

 cidce, 3 species — 2 new. The following 6 genera are proposed and de- 

 scribed : Garynota, Cyrtoisa [error for G//rtosia], Telamone, Heleochara, 

 Erythroneura, and Empoa. 



1851. Wheat Insects — Joint- Worm. (The Cultivator, New Series, 



viii, October, 1851, pp. 321-324.) 



Injuries of the joint-worm as related by a correspondent : A species 

 of fCapsus observed upon the wheat : The "joint-worm " described and 

 critically compared with the Hessian-fly worm, and with Miss Morris' 

 wheat-midge (an undetermined species), and is found to be different 

 from these or any known species. 



1852. Cantharis vittata. (Journal N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 



for October, 1852, iii, p. 55 — 18 cm.) 



Notes upon the striped blistering-fly, Cantharis mttata, which had en- 

 tirely destroyed some potato vines near Albany. Remarks upon their 

 blistering properties, with directions for collecting and preparing them 

 for use. 



1854. Apple-tree Pests — Schonherr's Weevil and the Orchard Moth. 

 (Trans. N. Y. State Agricultural Society, for 1853, xiii, 1854, 

 pp. 178-187.) 



Account of Pachyrliynchus ScJionherri of Kirby, identical with Cur- 

 culio Noveboracensis of Forster, eating the buds and young twigs of 

 apple-trees in Michigan ; also, of a caterpillar stripping all the leaves 

 from the orchards in Washington county, N. Y., which is named as 

 Argyrolepia pomoriana n. sp. An allied species is described and named 

 as Argyrolepia sylvaticana, or the Forest-moth. In a postscript to the 

 above, which had been published in the Salem Press of July 12th, Dr. 

 Fitch corrects an error in relation to the orchard moth, and now names 

 it ChwtocJdlus ponietellus, Dr. Harris having meantime published a 

 description of it as Rhinosia pometella, in a newspaper dated the 19th 

 of July. Dr. Fitch also describes and names an associated species as 

 Chcetochilus eontubernalellus . 



Appended to the above, are two letters from Dr. Harris, in which he 

 notices the Michigan weevil as Ithycerus Noveboracensis [its present 

 name], and the " Palmer-worm" or Rhinosia pometella, (pp. 188-192). 

 [Dr. Fitch was the first to describe the larva of this insect, while at the 



