CONTENTS. 



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Introduction -...gl 



Publications by the Entoinologist 83 



Contributions to the Department 89 



Collections of the Entomologist -- - - - - . . gj 



Insect Attacks and Miscellaneous Observations ------ 94 



Eggs of a Cut-worm on an Apple tree ----- ^ 94 



The Canker-worm — Anisopteryx vernata (Peck) - - - - 96 



The Apple-leaf Bucculatrix --------97 



Ephestia Kuhniella as a Pest in Mills ------.99 



The Clover-seed Midge — Cecidomyia leguminicola - - . \qq 

 Sciara sp. ? occurring on wheat - - - - - - - -101 



Helophilus similis 2Iacquart -------- 103 



The Cabbage Fly — Anthomyia brassicge BoucM - - - - 103 



The Hessian Fly — Cecidomyia destructor Say . - - . io3 

 A Lady-bug Attack on Scale-insects ------- 104 



Oviposition of Saperda Candida Fcihr. ------ 105 



The Clover-leaf Weevil destroyed by a Fungus 106 



The Pear-blight Beetle — Xyleborus pyri {Pedc) - - - - 107 



Attack on young Pears by a Plant-bug - no 



Pcecilocapsus lineatus (Fahr.) - - - - - - - -110 



An Experiment with the Thirteen-year Cicada ----- m 



A Scale-insect Attack on Ivy - - - - - - - -113 



The Cheese Mite infesting Smoked Meats - - - - - -114 



A Parasitic Mite attacking the Colorado Potato-beetle - - - 116 

 Another Parasitic Mite infesting a Beetle - - - - - -118 



A Mite Attack on Garden plants ----___ 118 



The Black -Knot of the Plum tree and its Q-uests - - - 120 



Notes upon various Insects - - - - - - - - -123 



Nisoniades Persius Scuddcr - - - - - - - -123 



Sphinx Canadensis Boisduval - - - - - - - -123 



Melittia cucurbitte {HarHs) - - - - - - - -123 



Tinea pellionella Linmeus - - - - - - - -123 



Mallota sp. ?---------- - 123 



Anthrenus scrophularite (Linn.) ------- 133 



Thanasimus dubius {Fahr.) - - - - - - - - -123 



Macrodactylus subspinosus (^ft^/r.) - - - - - - -123 



Chrysochus auratus {Fabr.) - - - - - - - -124 



Trirhabda Canadensis {Kirly) - - - - - - -124 



Hylesinus opaculus Leconte - - - - - - - -124 



PhlcBotribus liminaris (Harris) - - - - - - -124 



CEcanthus niveus Harris - - - - - - _ - -124 



Ephemera natata (IFrtZier) ----__._ 134 



Insect index -•-».-----._ 137 



