226 SECOND REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



and the years of their appearance during the present half-century; 

 broods in the State of New York ; injuries of the present brood upon 

 the shore of Canandaigua lake, and preventives of future injuries. 



A New Household Pest — Attagenus megatoma. (Country Gentleman, 

 for July 20, 1882, xlvii, p. 567, c. 2-3 — 38 cm.) 



Description of the beetle and of the larva ; the larva? occur beneath 

 carpets upon which the}^ feed ; abundance of the beetle in Washington 

 Park, Albany, on spiraeas with A. scrophidarice ; are often found on 

 windows within our houses ; probably breeds also in hair-cloth furni- 

 ture; does it injure cotton fabrics ? benzine and kerosene for killing it ; 

 tympans and roofing-paper as preventives. 



The Hessian Fly in Ohio. (Country Gentleman, for July 20, 1882, 

 xlvii, p. 567, c. 3 — 14 cm.) 



The wheat attacked by the second brood of the insect, of which the 

 eggs were laid in Maj^ The flies would emerge in July or August to 

 attack the winter wheat ; may possibly be a third brood. Protection 

 of its parasites recommended ; burning stubble would destroy the para- 

 sites. Wheat broken down by the attack should be cut low and reaped. 



A Bark Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for August 3, 1882, xlvii, p. 605, 

 c, 2-3 — 18 cm.) 



Beetles found in Perrowville, Va., underneath the bark of apple-trees 

 which show decay, and thought to be the cause, are Hyynenorus ob- 

 scurus (Say). They-could not have caused the injury, but were probably 

 drawn thither to feed upon the decaying material. None of the Cistel- 

 idcB are known to be obnoxious. 



The Stalk-Borer. (Country Gentleman, for August 3, 1882, xlvii, p. 

 605, c. 3 — 15 cm.) 



A caterpillar, injurious to the potato crop near Syracuse, N. Y., is 

 Gortyna nitela Guen.; often destructive to corn; cannot be reached by 

 external applications; may be removed by cutting into the stem of the 

 potato; burning the vines for killing the pupae remaining in them 

 recommended. 



Wire-Worms infesting Potato Vines. (Country Gentleman, for August 

 10, 1882, p. 625, c. 2 — 18 cm.) 



Reported from Scarsdale, N, Y., as first boring into the vines near 

 the ground, and later into the tubers ; belong to the Elateridce but the 

 species unknown ; habits of the beetles ; crops attacked by the larvze ; 

 no effectual remedy for them known ; reference to Dr. Fitch's paper on 

 wire-worms in his nth Annual Report. 



The Horn-Tail Borer — Tremex Columba (Z/;w/.). (Country Gentle- 

 man, for August 10, 1882, xlvii, p. 625, c. 2-3 — 26 cm.) 



A maple tree at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., shows fifty or more holes in 



