314 FIEST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



1861. The Grain Aphis. (The New York Observer, of October 17, 

 1861.) 



Referred to in Dr. Fitch's 6th-9th Eepts. Ins. If. Y. , p. 91, but has 

 not been seen by me. 



1861, Snapping Beetle — Blight on Apple-Trees. (The Country 

 Gentleman, August 22, 1861, xviii, p. 130 — 15 cm.) 



A correspondent from Plattsburg, N. Y., whose trees are dying from 

 * the scaling off of the bark, sends a beetle supposed to occasion the 

 trouble. 



The beetle proves to be one of the Elateridm — species unknown. 

 The injury results from some other cause, perhaps is of the same nature 

 as the " fire-bliglit " of the pear-tree. 



1861. An Important Caution. (The Country Gentleman, Septem- 



ber 5, 1861, xviii, p. 161 — 11 cm.) 



Where a grain-field has been infested with the Grain aphis, no ani- 

 mal should be pastured on the stubble of that field for three weeks 

 after the harvest. The Lady-bugs which have gathered there to feed 

 upon the aphis secrete a yellow acid juice from their joints, which is 

 believed to be poisonous to animals eating many of the beetles. Some 

 hogs having been turned into an oat-field the third day after its cut- 

 ting, one became enormously swollen and died about noon, and others 

 of them were seriously affected. A span of horses also became swol- 

 len upon being turned into an oat-field. 



1862. Insects the past Year [1861]. (Transactions N. Y. State Agri- 



cultural Society, for 1801, xxi, 1862, pp. 27-31.) 



Brief notice of insects studied during the year, viz., Grain-aphis, 

 Army-worm and Wheat-midge. Remarks upon the great fecundity of 

 the Aphis, the descendents of a single individual in twenty days 

 amounting to upwards of two millions. The Army-worm determined 

 for the first time. Number of parasites upon the Wheat-midge in 

 Europe. 



1862. The Entomologist. Entomological Events of the past Year. 

 (Country Gentleman, for February 20, 1862, xix, jx 124 — 54 

 cm. ) 



Read as a letter, at the winter meeting of the N. Y. State Agricul- 

 tural Society, in February, 1863. Gives the observations and studies 

 of Dr. Fitch during the preceding year, upon the Grain Aphis, the 

 Army-worm and the Wheat -midge. 



1862. The Entomologist. No. XXXI. — Insect Tumors and Wounds 

 in Raspberry Stalks. (Country Gentleman, for May 22, 1862, 

 xix, p. 335 — 52 cm.) 



Infested galls upon wild raspberry, Bubus strigosus, from Lockport, 

 N. Y., and identical ones upon the Antwerp variety of raspberry, Ruhus 

 Idoeus, from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., gave some gall insects which were 

 apparently an undescribed species of the family CyniphidcB and of the 



