CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



TEANSMITTAL 151 



EEMEDIES AND PEEVENTIVES OF INSECT ATTACK : 



Cutting out the Squash-Vine Borer 155 



Change of Soil for Strawberry Plants 156 



Brine for the Currant-worm 156 



Saltpetre not a Preventive of Cabbage -fly Attack 157 



Preventives of Cabbage-fly Attack 158 



Beans for Eepelling the Striped Cucumber Beetle 159 



Gas-lime for the Woolly- Aphis 160 



How to Kill the Apple-tree Aphis 160 



Tobacco Dust for Aphis Attack 162 



A Lime Wash for Bark-lice 163 



INJUEIOUS HYMENOPTEEA : 



Nematus Erichsonii Hartig — The Larch Saw-Fly 164 



Nematus salicis-pomum Walsh — The Willow-apple Gall Saw-fly.. 173 



INJUEIOUS LEPIDOPTEEA : 



Darapsa Myron (Cramer)— The Green Gi'apevine Sphinx 174 



Alypia octomaculata [Fabr.) and Eudryas grata {Fahr.) —The Eight- 

 spotted Forester and the Beautiful Woodnymph 179 



Phobetron pithecium {Sm.-Ahh.)—TlhQ Hag-Moth Caterpillar 183 



Anisota senatoria (Sni.-Abb.) — The Senatorial Oak Moth 192 



Agrotis saucia (Hubner) — The Variegated Cut-worm 200 



Mamestra picta Harris —The Zebra Cabbage Caterpillar 206 



Mamestra grandis {Boisduval) —A Poplar-feeding Cut-worm 210 



Penthina nimbatana {Clemens) — The Eose-leaf Tyer 213 



Incurvaria acerifoliella {Fitch) —The Maple-leaf Cutter 215 



INJUEIOUS DIPTEEA : 



Haematobia (Lyperosia) serrata Bob. Desv.— The Cow-horn Fly ... 220 



