182 Forty-third Report on the State Museum. [86] 



Apple Leaf Cluster Cup Fungus. (Country Gentleman, for Septem- 

 ber 8, 1881, xlvi, p. 583, c. 2 — 10 cm.) 



Leaves from Orange, N. J., are infested with this fungus, (Ecidium 

 pyratum Schw. Was first observed on wild crab. Has killed trees in 

 Ohio and Tennessee. May be arrested by plucking leaves and cutting 

 off boughs first infested, and burning. Chiiracters of the fungus. 



Beetle on the Tomato. (Country Gentleman, for September 8, 1881, 

 xlvi, p. 584, c. 3 — 14 cm.) 



Beetles from Canton, Oa., very destructive to the leaves of tomato 

 vines are the ash-gray blister-beetle, Ejncmtta cinerea (Forster). It is 

 common on the potato, but not previously reported on the tomato. 

 Best remedy is to beat them into a pan with kerosene and water. 

 [See page 134 of this Eeport.] 



Crambus vulgivagellus in Northern New York. (St. Lawrence 

 Republican, for September 14, 1881.) 



It is this species that has caused most of the destruction to grass- 

 lands, and not Nephelodes violans as at first supposed. Its cocoons and 

 the moths obtained therefrom are described. The moths are now 

 emerging in the infested fields. The insect has never before been 

 recorded as injurious. 



Injurious Insects, with Special Notice of some New Insect Pests. 

 [Read before the New York State Agricultural Society, at Elmira, 

 September 13, 1881. J (The Husbandman [Elmira, N. Y.], for Sep- 

 tember 14, 1881, pp. 3, 6, 7 — 5 cols. Country Gentleman, for Sep- 

 tember 29, 1881, xlvi, p. 631, c. 2, 3 — 56 cm. ; id. for October 6, 1881, 

 p. 647, c. 1-3 — 52 cm.) Republished in (Forty- first Annual Report 

 of the New York State Agricultural Society, for the year 1881. 

 Albany [August], 1882, pp. 40-50. Transactions of the New York 

 State Agricultural Society, xxxiii, for 1877 — 1882. 1884, pp. 

 221-234.) 



Discusses the province of the Economic Entomologist ; gives the his- 

 tory of the appearance of the Vagabond Crambus, Crambus vulgivagellus 

 Clemens, in Northern New York; notices the punctured clover-leaf 

 weevil, Plujtonomus punctatus (Fabr.), and the Pyralid web-caterpillar, 

 Eurycreon raatalis Guen. ; with remarks on the progress recently made 

 in Economic Entomology. 



The Vagabond Crambus. (Ogdensburgh [N. Y.] Daily Journal, for 

 September 21, 1881.-18 cm.) 



The above popular name is proposed for the Crambus vulgivagellus. 

 recently so destructive. Possibility of a second brood considered. Scat- 

 tering ashes or plaster over the grass-lands the present month, recom- 

 mended as a preventive of further injuries. 



