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SOME INSECTS OF THE YEAR. 
By F. M. WEBSTER, Wooster, Ohio. 
Epicauta cinerea Forst., EH. vitatta Fab., E. pennsylvanica De G., are all 
exceedingly abundant in Ohio this year and very destructive. 
Crioceris asparagi Linn.—This pest of the garden in its westward 
march has reach Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, having probably crossed 
the Alleghanies via the Ohio River and its tributaries. 
Systena blanda Mels.—This beetle has proven very destructive to 
beans in Ohio the present summer. Large fields were seriously 
damaged. 
Huschistus variolarius P. Beauv.—Observed puncturing the skin of 
ripening tomatoes, numbers being clustered on a single tomato and 
the juice oozing from the punctures. They also attacked peaches in a 
similar manner. 
Phytonomus punctatus Fab.—This species reached Wooster, Wayne 
County, Ohio, this year for the first time, adults having been observed 
on several occasions during June and July. The larve fed on white 
clover, leaving the red clover untouched. 
Otiorrhynchus ovatus Linn.—Reared adults from pup found in blue- 
grass sod in June, both being present. Larve observed in May. 
Macrodactylus subspinosus Fab.—This species was found in the lar- 
val stage in great abundance in a field of wheat early in May, dis- 
tributed among the roots upon which they had clearly been feeding. 
The same field had produced wheat the preceding year. At the time 
of examination the roots had many of them been eaten, and the plants 
above ground were not in thrifty condition. 
Epitrix parvula Fab.—The adults worked considerable injury to 
tobacco in southwestern Ohio by eating numerous holes in the leaves. 
Thyridopteryx ephemereformis Haw.—This has been especially inju- 
rious this season in southern Ohio—it does not occur elsewhere in the 
State—and I have nothing new to record except tiat about North 
Bend it is parasitized to a limited extent by a Dipteron, probably a 
Tachinid, as I have found the pupa protruding from the lower or pos- 
terior end of the sack and somewhat resembling the anterior end of the 
pupa of the male Thyridopteryx, as the latter is first pushed forth, pre- 
paratory to the emerging of the imago. | 
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