REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1899 565 
tritici] and the Hessian fly [Cecidomyia destructor] are 
working in the wheat. June 16. The cicadas about Syracuse have done 
‘some damage, causing the tips of twigs to wilt and die. 10% of the 
wheat stalks are infested with Hessian fly, and 4% with the wheat midge. 
Grape vine flea beetle larvae have disappeared. June 23. Potato beetle 
still numerous. Wheat midge and Hessian fly are at work yet. Apple 
tree tent caterpillar moths have nearly all emerged. Hundreds of small, 
whitish butterflies [Pieris r.apae| are flying about. Green-headed 
horseflies and the large black fly [Tabanus atratus] are abundant. 
House flies are not so numerous as usual. July 1. Wheat midge and 
Hessian fly are still found in wheat fields. Horseflies have appeared in 
large numbers and are very annoying to stock. July 7. Colorado potato 
beetle [Doryphora 1o-lineata| is abundant and destructive. 
Golden tortoise beetles are present on morning-glory vines. White- 
marked tussock caterpillars [Notolophus leucostigma|] are 
on horse-chestnut trees, but not abundant. July 15. Cabbage worms 
appearing, but not abundant. White-marked tussock caterpillars have 
spun their cocoons. July 22. Dog day cicadas [Cicada tibicen|] 
are more numerous than usual. Egg belts of apple tree tent caterpillar 
are quite abundant. Codling moth is possibly a litthe more abundant 
than in former years. Spined soldier bugs are destroying many potato 
beetles. Fall web worms [Hyphantria cunea] are more 
numerous than usual. Aug. 12. Milkweed butterfly [Anosia plexip- 
pus] was quite numerous for a few days, more so than usual. The 
harvest fly [Cicada tibicen] was more abundant than I have 
known it to be before. Grape vine leaf hopper [Typhlocyba 
Pvitis] very plentiful. Oct. 2. 
Ontario county (J. Jay Barden, Stanley)—Apple tree tent caterpillars 
[Clisiocampa americana] appeared April 13 on crab-apple 
buds, and bud moths [Tmetocera ocellana] were found at 
work on April 22 and cigar case bearers | Coleophora fletcher- 
ella] had begun to move. The bud moth has been very bad in un- 
sprayed orchards, but seems to have been controlled by spraying before 
the buds opened. Forest tent caterpillars [Clisiocampa dis- 
‘stria] are more numerous than ever before, their work being plainly 
apparent in the tops of sugar maples. An orchard of about 50 trees 
looks as if swept by fire, the result of canker worm attack. May 31. 
Very little has been seen of the potato beetle. Many complain of the 
‘work of the four lined leaf bug [Poecilocapsus lineatus]. 
‘Larvae of the eight spotted forester [Alypia octomaculata |] 
