226 SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and the years of their appearance during the present half-century; 

 broods in the State of New York ; injuries of the present brood upon 

 the shore of Canandaigua lake, and preventives of future injuries. 



A New Household Pest — Attagenus megatoma. (Country Gentleman, 

 for July 20, 1882, xlvii, p. 567, c. 2-3 — 38 cm.) 



Description of the beetle and of the larva ; the larvae occur beneath 

 carpets upon which they feed ; abundance of the beetle in Washington 

 Park, Albany, on spirasas with A. scrophularice ; are often found on 

 windows within our houses ; probably breeds also in hair-cloth furni- 

 ture; does it injure cotton fabrics ? benzine and kerosene for killing it ; 

 tympans and roofing-paper as preventives. 



The Hessian Fly in Ohio. (Country Gentleman, for July 20, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 567, c. 3 — 14 cm.) 



The wheat attacked by the second brood of the insect, of which the 

 eggs were laid in May. The flies would emerge in July or August to 

 attack the winter wheat ; may possibly be a third brood. Protection 

 of its parasites recommended ; burning stubble would destroy the para- 

 sites. Wheat broken down by the attack should be cut low and reaped. 



A Bark Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for August 3, 1882, xlvii, p. 605, 

 c. 2-3 — 18 cm.) 



Beetles found in Perrowville, Vfi., underneath the bark of apple-trees 

 which show decay, and thought to be the cause, are Hyme7iorus ob- 

 scurus (Say). They could not have caused the injury, but were probably 

 drawn thither to feed upon the decaying material. None of the Cistel- 

 zdce are known to be obnoxious. 



The Stalk-Borer. (Country Gentleman, for August 3, 1882, xlvii, p. 

 605, c. 3 — 15 cm.) 



A caterpillar, injurious to the potato crop near Syracuse, N. Y., is 

 Gortyna nitela Guen.; often destructive to corn; cannot be reached by 

 external applications; may be removed by cutting into the stem of the 

 potato ; burning the vines for killing the pupae remaining in them 

 recommended. 



Wire-Worms infesting Potato Vines. (Country Gentleman, for August 

 10, 1882, p. 625, c. 2 — 18 cm.) 



Reported from Scarsdale, N. Y., as first boring into the vines near 

 the ground, and later into the tubers ; belong to the ElateridcB but the 

 species unknown ; habits of the beetles ; crops attacked by the larvae ; 

 no effectual remedy for them known; reference to Dr. Fitch's paper on 

 wire-worms in his nth Annual Report. 



The Horn-Tail Borer — Tremex Columba (Z/////.). (Country Gentle- 

 man, for August 10, 1882, xlvii, p. 625, c. 2-3 — 26 cm.) 



A maple tree at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., shows fifty or more holes in 



