VI TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Carbolic acid for the cabbage-worm, 27. Road dust for the cab- 

 bage-worm, 27. Coal oil refuse for the canker-worm, 27. A wash 

 for the apple-tree borer, 27. Saltpetre for the striped cucumber 

 beetle, 28. Gypsum and kerosene for the squash-bug, 29. Va- 

 porized tobacco juice for ''thrips," etc., 29. The thrips proper, 

 31. Infusion of tobacco for the rose-leaf hopper, 31. Infusion 

 of tobacco for aphides on house-plants, 31. Kerosene oil for 

 scale-insects on house-plants, 32. Sulphur for cabbage aphis, 32. 

 Grape bagging to protect from insect attack, 32. A bottle trap 

 for various garden insects, 33. Poultry in orchards, 33. Insecti- 

 cidal properties of some of the Compositae, 34. A new instru- 

 ment for use against root-insects, 34. Naphthaline as an insecti- 

 cide, 35. Directions for making kerosene oil emulsions, 36, 37. 

 The Shearer soap emulsion, 38. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 39 



A parasite of Pyrameis Atalanta, 39. A diseased brood of 

 Actias luna, 39. Heteropacha Rileyana Harvey^ 40. Hemileuca 

 Maia {Drury), 40. The hop-grub — Gortyna immanis {Guenee),\\, 

 42. The army-worm in Western New York, 42. Anisota ver- 

 nata {Peck), 44. The carpet-fly, Scenopinus fenestralis {Linn.), 

 44. The emasculating bot-fly, Cuterebra emasculator Fitch, 45. 

 Beet-leaf mining Anthomyiida?, 46. Attagenus megatoma, 

 {Fabr.), as a household pest, 46, 47. The Rose-bug, Macrodac- 

 tylus subspinosus {Fabr.), 48. Increase of the bean-weevil, 

 Bruchus obsoletus Say, 49. Oviposition of Monohammus con- 

 fusor {Kirby), 49, 50. Otiorhynchus ligneus infesting a dwelling- 

 house, 51. .Sphenophorus sculptilis (fZ-^/i^r), 52. Destruction of 

 spruces and firs in Northern New York and New England by 

 bark-borers, 53-55. Distribution of the Harlequin cabbage-bug, 

 Murgantia histrionica, 55. Dactylopius longifilis Comsiock, ^6. 

 Heliothrips ha;morrhoidalis Bouche, 56. 



INJURIOUS LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Melittia cucurbits, the Squash-vine Borer 57 



Its synonymy and bibliograph}^, 57. Abundance at Coxsackie, 

 N. Y., 58. Perhaps identical with an European species, 58. De- 

 scription of the moth, 58. The moth figured, 59. The larva 

 figured and described, 59. The cocoon, 60. Figures of the larva, 

 pupa and imago, 60. Family features of the ^geriadce, and number 

 of species, 60 Life-history and habits, 61. Hibernation as a 

 larva, 62. The Hubbard squash most liable to attack, 62. Number 

 of larvae taken from a single vine, 62. Remedies and preventives, 

 63. Crushing the larvae by plowing, 63. Use of gas-lime and 

 kerosene oil, 63. Protection by netting, 64. Cutting out the 

 larvae, 64. Bisulphide of carbon and how to use it, 64. Rooting 



