200 Forty-first Report on the State Museum. 



Report of tlie State Entomologist to the Regents of the University of 

 the State of New York, for the year 1885. (Thirty-ninth Annual 

 Report of the State Museum of Natural History, for the year 1885, 

 pp. 77-125.) [Published, July 6, 1887.] 



The contents are, Introduction. Publications by the Entomologist. 

 Contributions to the Department. Collections of the entomologist. 

 Insect Attacks and Miscellaneous Observations [as follows] : Eggs of a 

 Cut-worm on an apple-tree : The Canker-worm : The Api^le-leaf Buccu- 

 latrix : The Clover-seed Midge : Sciara sp? on wheat : Helophilus similis : 

 The Cabbage Fly : The Hessian Fly : A Lady-bug attack on scale 

 insects : Oviposition of Saperda Candida : The Clover-leaf weevil 

 destroyed by a Fungus attack: The Pear-blight Beetle: Attack on 

 youug pears by a Plant-bug: Poecilocapsus lineatus : An Experiment 

 with the 13-year Cicada: A Scale-insect attack on Ivy: The Cheese- 

 mite infesting Smoked Meats : A Parasitic Mite infesting a beetle : 

 A Mite attack on Garden plants : The Black Knot of the Plum tree and 

 its Guests. Notes upon various Insects [as follows — reprinted in 

 present report]: Nisoniades Persius — Sphinx Canadensis — Melittia 

 cucurbitae — Tinea pellionella — Mallota sp. — Anthrenus scrophularise — 

 Thanasimus dubius — Macrodactylus subspinosus — Chrysochus aura- 

 tus — Trirhabda Canadensis — Hylesinus opaculus — Phloeotribus lim- 

 inaris — Oilcan thus niveus — Ephemera natata. 



The Meal Worm in Salt. (Country Gentleman, for July 7, 1887, lii, 

 p. 530, c. 3-4 — 8 cm.) 



Examples of twenty-five larva? and of some beetles found in a sack of 

 salt which had stood unopened in a meal-room for two months, in 

 Newark Valley, N. Y., are Tenebrio molitor Linn. It is probable that 

 the larvae entered the sack for pupation, and in this manner only could 

 the salt have served any purpose in the development of the beetle from 

 the mfitured larvae. 



Four-lined Leaf-bug on the Currant. (Country Gentleman for July 

 14, 1887, lii, p. 547, c. 2-3 — 21 cm.) 



Insects infesting currant bushes at Fairmount, N. Y., are Pcecilocap- 

 sus lineatus (Fabr.). Description of it is given and of its method of 

 injury. It can not be killed by application to the leaves, as it is not a 

 suctorial insect. Remedies mentioned, are, burning refuse garden 

 material where it hibernates, killing the hibernating female when 

 returning to the bushes in early spring for oviposition, and beating the 

 larvae and pupae into a pan of water and kerosene. 



The Elm-leaf Beetle. (Country Gentleman for July 21, 1887, lii, p. 

 565, c. 3 — 25 cm.) 



Larvae sent from Scarsdale, N. Y., as destroying the foliage of elms, 

 are those of Galeruca xnnthomelcena. Eeferences to former notices of 

 it in the Count. Gent. The best liquid preparation for its destruction 



