96 



rape cake ; manure ; guano. Natural enemies : crows and 

 rooks. Description of two species. 



1868. F.— The Wireworm. Country Gent. XXXII., 121, 122. Reg- 



ular rotation of crops. 



1869. Packard, A. S., Jr. — Elateridge. Guide to the Study of In- 



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1874. LeBaron, Wm.— Idem. 5th Hep. St. Ent. 111. pp. 96-100. 



Generic synopsis of family. 



1875. CcoK, A. J.— Wireworm. Rep. Mich. St. Bd. Agr. 1874, p. 



113. Reported quite destructive to Indian corn and potatoes 

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120. Characters of the family. Description of eight sjDecies. 

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Jones, S. D. — The Wireworm. Prairie Farmer, March, 1876. 

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Thomas, Cyrus. — Wireworms. 6th Rep. St. Ent. 111., pp. 21-32. 

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 character of injury. Remedies: hand-picking; salt; lime; 

 soot ; hard rolling ; guano ; hog manure ; rotating crops with 

 vegetables that are obnoxious to the worms ; burning grass ; 

 starving out ; coating seed corn in coal tar, or soaking in 

 suiphate of copper solution. 



1877. Fbrnald, C. H.-Idem. Agric. of Maine, 1877, pp. 65-69. 



Preferred situations ; food plants. Under-draining. Descrip- 

 tion of Agriotes iiiancus. 



1878. Thomas, Cyrus.— Idem. 7th Rep. St. Ent. 111., pp. 19-32, 



Injuries and remedies, with a description of seventeen species, 



1880. Harrington, W. Hague. — On the Elateridse. Rep. Ent. Soc. 

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 habits. Food plants. Conflicting opinion in regard to in- 

 jury to potatoes. Two years probable period of a genera- 

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 and description of several species. 



DwiNELLE, C. H. — Wireworms. Pacific Rural Press, March 

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45. Agriotes mancus, Say. 



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1852. Harris, T. W.— Elater (Agriotes) obesus. Treatise N. E. In- 



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