318 FORTT-SECONB REPORT ON THE StATE MuSEUM. [176] 



Cut-worms. Eead before the New York State Agricultural Society, 

 at the Annual Meeting, January 21, 1885. (Forty-fourth Annual 

 Keport of the New York State Agricultural Society, for the year 



1884, [May], 1885, pp. 56-80, figs. 1-20.) (Separate, with cover and 

 half-title [June, 1885], pp. 25, figs. 20.) 



The subject is treated of under the following heads : What are Cut- 

 worms ?— Their Appearance — Their Habits — Habits of the Moths — 

 Natural History — Conditions Favorable to Cut-worms — Their Food- 

 plants — Abundance of Cut-worms —Literature of the Cut-worms — List 

 of Species — Natural Enemies — Parasites — Preventives and Remedies — 

 Two Preventives Specially Commended — Conclusion. 



A Potato-bug Parasite. (The New England Homestead, for June 6, 



1885, xix, p. 237, c. 2 — 34 cm.) 



A mite infesting and killing Colorado potato-beetles received from 

 Middlesex county, Mass., is identified as Uropoda Americana Eiley. 

 Description is given of it, its peculiar connecting filament remarked 

 upon, habits of the family of Gamasidce to which it belongs, noticed, 

 together with the importance of the attack, and recommendation of 

 distribution of the serviceable parasite. 



[Printed, also, in this Eeport, see pp. 289-291.] 



The Visitation of Locusts. (The Argus [Albany], June 7, 1885, p. 4, 

 c. 5 — 33 cm.) 



The announced co-appearance of the seventeen-year locusts and the 

 thirteen-year locusts will not occur in New York; why "locust" is a 

 misnomer; not 221 years, as stated, since the two forms of Cicadas 

 co-appeared, but only thirty years, also thirty-nine years ago ; no ground 

 for alarm, as the Cicada harms fruit trees only, and those usually not 

 seriously ; notice of the brood of seventeen-year Cicadas to appear about 

 the present time in New York, at Brooklyn and Eochester. 



The Pear-Blight Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for June 18, 1885, 1, 

 p. 517, c. 2, 3 — 46 cm.) 



Zi/fe&orHsp?/ri (Peck), infesting the trunks of young apple trees and 

 killing them, at Annapolis, Md., is identified ; description of the 

 beetle ; origin of its common name ; its two forms of attack ; the burrows 

 in the limbs and in the trunk described ; the latter ascribed to a second 

 brood but are probably made by the mature insect for food and shelter ; 

 remedy for the limb attack, cutting off and burning with the insect ; for 

 the trunk attack, not yet known. 



The Canker Worm. (Country Gentleman, for June 18, 1885, 1, p. 519, 

 c. 2, 3 — 20 cm.) 



Spread of the Canker-worm, Anisopteryx vernata (Peck) in the State of 

 New York; notice of its presence in large numbers at Loudonville, 

 Albany county ; the attack is controllable at the outset, and should not 

 be allowed to extend. The preventives and remedies are, bands, etc., to 



