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Sweet Potato Beetles. (Country Gentleman, for July 3, 1890, 

 Iv, p. 538, c. 1, 2 — 10 cm.) 



The beetles sent from Red Bank, N. J., as destructive to sweet potato 

 vines, are Cassida nigripes and Coptocycla aurichalcea. They feed also 

 on the morning-glory; their peculiar larval appearance with their 

 excremental covering noticed. They are seldom so abundant as to 

 necessitate the use of insecticides. 



A New Bug. [A Destructive Apple-tree Insect.] (New England 

 Homestead, for July 5, 1890, xxiv, p. 232, c. 4 — 13 cm.) 



A caterpillar boring into the pith of the new wood of apple trees at 

 Watertown, N. Y., and committing serious injury, is identified as the 

 eye-spotted bud-moth, Tmetocera oceUana. It is briefly described, food- 

 plants given; its feeding habits and injuries; its increase in Eastern 

 United States; many reports of it the present year; when the moths 

 appear, and a second brood. Spray with arsenites to kill it, and when. 



The [Corn] Cut Worm. (Country Gentleman, for July 24, 1890, 

 Iv, p. 590, c. 1, 2 — 12 cm.) 



A grub reported from Areola, 111., and boring into earlj' corn and 

 eating the kernels — each ear containing one or more — is the boll-worm 

 or corn-worm of the Southern States, Hellotliis armiger. Attracting the 

 moths to plates of vinegar and molasses when they are abundant. 



See Country Gentleman, xlvi. 1881, p. 759, or 1st Kept. Ins. N. Y., 1882, 

 pp. 116-126. 



Locust-Tree Borer. (Country Gentleman, for August 14, 1890, Iv, 

 p. 644, c. 1 — 6 cm.) 



Preventives of Cijllene robmice attack, are washing the trunk of the 

 locust with soap solution and carbolic acid mixed, and cutting out the 

 young larvae. Remedy, cutting down and burning badly infested trees. 



Syrphus Fly. (Country Gentleman, for August 14, 1890, Iv, 

 p. 644, c. 3 —A cm.) 



The rat-tailed larva of a Syrphid fly, found in a cow-stable at Scho- 

 harie, N. Y., may be a species of Eristalis. 



[From other examples subsequently sent and reared, it proved to be 

 Eristalix tenax (Linn.) ] 



Elm-Tree Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for August 14, 1890, Iv, 

 p. 644, c. 3, 4 — 10 cm.) 



In answer to request from Nyack, N. Y., for a remedy for this beetle, 

 directions are given for spraying the foliage, and recommendation made 

 of killing the larvae when they descend the tree trunks for pupation. 



