304 FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



insect, and its natural enemies. Remedies and preventives for its 

 ravages, and State bounties for its collection and destruction recom- 

 mended. 



1856. The Joint- Worm in Barley. (Journal N. Y. State Agricul- 



tural Society, for December, 1856, vii, p. 76 — .13 cm.) 



Insects destructive to Barley, in Cazenovia, N. Y. , identified as Eury- 

 toma Jtordei, for the first time noticed in this State. 



1857. Entomology. No. XIIL— The Prickly Leptostylus— a Worm 



under the bark of Apple-Trees. (The Country Gentleman, 

 Jan. 29, 1857, ix, p. 78 — 77 cm. Tiia Cultivator, March, 

 1857, Third Series, v, pp. 77, 78 — 58 cm.) 



Account of its oj^erations as observed by Mr. Clark, in Wisconsin. 

 Identified as the Leptostijlus aculiferus of Say and described by Dr. 

 Fitch. Repeated applications of soap recommended for its prevention, 

 and suggestions made for its detection in its retreat. 



1857. Entomology. No. XIV. — Insects Imbedded in the Interior 

 of Wood. (The Country Gentleman, March 26, 1857, ix, pp. 

 201, 202 — 68 cm. The Cultivator, May, 1857, Third 

 Series, v, pp. 138, 139 — 46 cm.) 



Remarks upon the importance of accompanying requests for infor- 

 mation upon insects submitted, with the statement of what is known, 

 of them. Description of the Pigeon Tremex, Tremex Columba Linn., 

 in its larval and pupal stages : mention of the trees which it infests 

 and the decay that results. No method known by which we may de- 

 stroy the larvae. Many are killed by a parasite. Attack upon a tree 

 may be arrested by a thick straw encasement preventing egg-deposit. 



1857. Entomology. Xo. XV. — Grasshoppers. (The Country Gentle- 

 man, July 16, 1857, x, pp. 42, 43 — 96 cm. The Cultiva. 

 tor, August, 1857, Third Series, v, pp. 245, 246 —cm. 70.) 



Inquiries from Scott county, Minn., in relation to a grasshopper 

 which came from the Northwest by millions, and were in June of the 

 following year, consuming every green thing [evidently Caloptenus 

 spretus]. Dr. Fitch presents a picture of locust visitations and devas- 

 tations in the old world. The immature species sent to him cannot be 

 named, although evidently not the Acridium femur-rubrum, which 

 species is sometimes gregarious and migratory, and approaches the 

 locust of the east in its ravages. Our knowledge of the means of 

 controlling locust ravages is better than of any other insect, from the 

 study given it from the eafliest times. It is by collecting and destroy- 

 ing the eggs and young insects. The extent to which this has been 

 done in Europe, China and elsewhere, is stated, and also how it may 

 best be done. 



1857. Weevil in Seeds from the Patent Office. (Journal IST. Y. State 

 Agricultural Society, for July, 1857, viii, p. 29 — 11 cm.) 



Insects discovered in a package of Patent Office seed, labeled " Spring 

 Barley from Italy," found to be the grain-weevil, Calandra granaria 



