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INJUEIOUS COLEOPTEEA: page. 



Dynastes Tityus {Linn.) —The Spotted Horn-bug 227 



Oberea bimaculata {Oliv.) — The Easpberry-cane Girdler 231 



Galeruca zanthomelsena (Schrank) — The Elm-leaf Beetle 234 



INJUEIOUS HEMIPTEEA : 



Clastaptera obtusa {Say) — The Alder Spittle-Insect 242 



Siphonophora avenas (Fabr.) —The Grain Aphis 246 



Myzus cerasi (Fabr.) — The Cherry Aphis 253 



INSECT ATTACKS AND MISCELLANEOUS OBSEEVATIONS : 



The Canker-worm — Anisopteryx vernata (Peck) 258 



Abundance of Geometrid Larvae 259 



The Apple-leaf Bucculatrix 260 



The Clover-seed Midge — Cecidomyia leguminicola Lintn 262 



The Hessian-fly — Cecidomyia destructor Say 263 



Sciara sp. ? Occurring on Wheat 264 



The Cabbage-fly — Anthomyia brassicae BoucM 265 



A Lady-bug Attack on Scale-insects 266 



The Carpet Beetle — Anthrenus scrophularias (Linn.) 267 



The Oak-pruner — Elaphidion parallelum Newm 268 



Oviposition of Saperda Candida Fabr 269 



Orthaltica copalina (Fabr.) 271 



The Clover-leaf Weevil Destroyed by a Fungus Attack 272 



Poecilocapsus lineatus {Fabr.) 273 



Attack on Young Pears by a Plant-bug 275 



An Experiment with the Thirteen-year Cicada 276 



White Scale-insect Attack on Ivy — Aspidiotus nerii BoucM 278 



The Black-knot of the Plum-tree and its Guests 280 



Collections in the Adirondack Eegion, et al 281 



Collections in the Adirondack Eegion in 1885 283 



ACAEINA AND MYEIOPODA : 



A Mite Attack on Garden Plants 287 



A Parasitic Mite of a Sexton Beetle 289 



A Parasitic Attack on the Colorado Potato-beetle 289 



The Cheese-mite Infesting 'Smoked Meats — Tyroglyphus siro 



{Linn.) 291 



The Cheese-mite Infesting Flour 294 



Food of Cermatia forceps {Raf.) 295 



Julus cferuleocinctus beneath Carpets 296 



