30 FOURTH ANNUAL RFPORT OF 



SUMMARY. 



The Apple worm or Codling moth is an imi:)orted insect. There are 

 two broods each year, and the second passes the winter within the cocoon in 

 the larva state. Use hogs and sheep in the orchard wherever it is feasible 

 to do so. Place no confidence in lights and bottles, but rely on the bandage 

 sj'stem. Have the bandages in place a week after the first Wilson's Albany 

 strawberries ripen, and destroy all the cocoons underneath them every two 

 weeks till the apples are harvested. Be sure and destroy, as soon as the 

 ground thaws out in the sj^ring, all the cocoons found around storehouses. 

 Urge your neighbors to combine with you in this work. 



Telephouus BiLiNEATUS, Siij .—Larva (Fig. 15, a)— Body, 12-joiuted, joint 1 longest, 4 shortest, 

 the rest of about equal length ; flattened; tapering slightly at each end; velvety; of a rich deep 

 brown above, pale below ; intersections deep and broadening from sides to middle of dorsum ; two deep 

 longitudinal lateral furrows, and two, less deep, ventral ones; a medio-dorsal pale line continuous 

 on the thoracic joints but showing only on the sutures of the rest; joints 3 and 3 each with a large 

 sunken, suboval brown spot, each side of dorsum, these spots with a pale centre; in a line with these 

 ou all the abdominal joints but last is a more or less distinct, slightly sunken, pale line, and still 

 another parallel witli it fui-ther out on the side. Between these pale lines, on every joint but the 

 last, is a slightly elevated, dark, bead-like tubercle which might readily be mistaken for spiracles: 

 but these last which are dark and i^uite small are placed on the anterior edge of tlie lirst eight 

 abdominal joints, in the upper lateral furrow, and between the first two thoracic joints — there being 

 nine pair in all ; anal joint with a moderate pooleg. Legs rather short, pilose, the tarsus terminating 

 in a prominent Jand sharp claw. Hcfl(i flattened, divided superiorly a little beyond the middle by a 

 transverse suture, the basal portion of an opaque, velvety, sooty-black ; the anterior portion polished, 

 forming three well defined lobes, with the autei-ior edge irregularly broken; eyes prominent, placed 

 laterally immediately before the occipital suture: antennre inserted in a deep socket, •2-jointed, the 2nd 

 four times as long as first and bearing a small sub-joint at tip : labrum not visible [Packard describes 

 it as ' ' broad and perfectly square in front, with a medium notcli dividing the edge into two slight 

 lubes." As Walsh describes that of Chauliognalhus as being retractile, it is probably retracted in 

 my specimens which are alcoholic]: mandibles falcate, with a strong tooth a little beyond the 

 middle of the inner edge: beneath, the anterior edge is deeply and semi-circularly cut out: mentum 

 extending between maxillfe for two-thirds their length: maxilla; large, projecting beyond labium, 

 especially on the inside where they seem to be produced into a slight point; maxillary palpi 3-jtd., 

 the second twice as long as the first, the third rudimentary: labium small, formed of a basal quad- 

 rate piece and two palpigerous pieces that are soldered together; labial palpi 2-jtd. , the second rudi- 

 mcntal. 



Described from two alcoholic specimens. 



Dr. Packard describes the labial palpi as 3-jointed, doubtless considering the palpigerous piece 

 a,*; a basal joint. He makes no mention of the stigmata, and as W:".lsh describes the closely allied 

 larva of Chauliognathus with 11 pair, whicli is certainly anomalous; and as Chaijuis and Candeze give 

 to Telephorid larva; but 9 pair, I liave very critically examined my specimens, and find the stigmata 

 as described above. 



THE PEEIODICAL CICADA. 



It will be well from time to time to note the appeai'ance of this inter- 

 esting insect, in different parts of the country, so as to see how far its chron- 

 ological history, as given in my first Hejjort, is correct. The time for the 

 appeai'ance of six of the broods has passed away, and I will rejDroduce 

 what was said of them in 1868, and ap^iend such facts, confirmatory or oth- 

 erwise, as have come to my knowledge since. 



