168 FORTT-THIRB REPORT ON THE STATE MLSEUM. [72] 



Grain Aphis. (Country Gentleman, for June 27, 1889, liv, p. 496, 

 c. 3, 4— 14 cm.) 



Identification of Siphonophora avence on wheat from La Grange, 111. 

 Why it should be known as avence instead of granaria. Is not " a new 

 insect" or the "wheat-midge" or the "green-midge" of recent agricul- 

 tural and other journals. Prospects of its injuries in Indiana and 

 Illinois to wheat this year. 



Insect Depredations. (Country Gentleman, for June 27, 1889, liv, 

 see p. 496, c. 4 — 11 cm.) 



Remarks on the grain aphis on wheat in Indiana, reported by the press 

 as " green midge," " wheat midge," etc. What it is, and its injuries this 

 year and in preceding years. 



Our Insect Enemies and How to Meet them. An Address before the 

 New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, at its Annual Meeting at 

 Trenton, February 1, 1889. Camden, N. J. [July], 1889, 8 vo., 22 pp. 

 Importance of Agriculture — its present and future. Economic Ento- 

 mology. Importance of Entomological Study. The Secrecy of Insect 

 Depredations. The Small Size of Insects. Number of Insects. Rapidity 

 of Propagation. The Voracity of Insects. Can Insect Ravages be Pre- 

 vented ? How to Meet our Insect Enemies. 



Early Appearance of the Common House-fly and its Fungus. (Albany 

 Evening Journal, for July 11, 1889.) 



Musca domestica has appeared in large numbers in Albany during the 

 present week, while it rarely abounds before August — the result of the 

 remarkable meteorological conditions of the year. The fungus peculiar 

 to the fly has also attacked it. The early occurrence of this fungus, of 

 rust on oats, and other fungi, indicate an unusual prevalence this year 

 of rusts, blights, mildews, etc. 



The Corn Worm. (New England Homestead, for July 13, 1889, xxiii, 

 p. 237, c. 1 — 16 cm.) 



Gortijna nitela is identified in a caterpillar sent from Hartford, Conn., 

 feeding on the tassels of corn. While it has numerous food-plants, it is 

 not recorded as an external feeder — always hitherto as a borer into 

 stems or stalks or fruit. Description of the caterpillar, and in what 

 particulars this example differed from others seen. Will probably not 

 injure the tassels to the extent of interfering with proper pollenization. 



Insects on Lima Beans. — Squash-bugs. (Country Gentleman, for 

 July 18, 1889, liv, p. 543, c. 2—23 cm.) 



In reply to inquiries from Monroe county, N. Y., of means for check- 

 ing the ravages of an unknown insect that eats off Lima bean-plants just 

 below the seed leaves — of the striped squash-bug— and the larger 

 squash-bug, answer is made : The bean insect can not be named from 



