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Treatment: handpicking or dusting with ashes.: Burn all rubbish in 
the fall. 
57 Four lined leaf bug (Poecilocapsus lineatus). 
Yellowish bugs with four black stripes and about #, in. long frequenting 
various plants and injuring some considerably. 
Treatment: dust affected plants with ashes. Spray young with kero» 
sene emulsion. Cut and burn tips of bushes containing eggs. 
GRASS INSECTS 
58 Army worm (Leucania unipuncta). _ Brownish, white- 
striped caterpillars about 2 in. long devouring grasses and allied plants. 
Treatment: confine by ditching, kill with poisoned baits. Prevent 
their occurrence by clean culture. 
59 White grubs (Lachnosterna fusca, Allorhina 
nitida). Fleshy, white, brown-headed grubs severing grass roots and 
those of other plants. Allorhina occurs in vicinity of New York city. 
Treatment: spray badly infested areas liberally with kerosene emulsion 
just before a rain. Dig and destroy the grubs. 
60 Grasshoppers. A number of species attack various crops. 
Treatment: place poisoned baits near crops to be protected. 
HOUSEHOLD INSECTS 
61 House fly (Musca domestica). Easily recognized as 
the common fly around houses. 
Treatment: exclude with screens. As it breeds in manure and gar- 
bage, keeping this material cleaned up or inaccessible to flies will reduce 
their numbers. 
62 Bed bug (Acanthia lectularia), A flattened, reddish in« 
sect about 1{ in. long frequenting houses, specially those affording 
numerous cracks where it can find shelter and where uncleanliness pre- 
vails. 
Treatment: apply benzine, kerosene or other petroleum oil to crevices 
in infested beds. Corrosive sublimate may be used in same manner, 
Fumigation with sulfur is valuable wherever possible. 
63 Kissing bug: masked bed bug hunter (Opsicoetus per- 
sonatus). A brownish or black insect about 34 in. long. It is 
attracted by lights, and its young, which conceals itself by a covering of 
