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"Remedies for the White Grub. (The New England Homestead, for 

 May 16, 1885, xix, p. 205, c. 2—28 cm.) 



The remedies usually recommended for tlie beetle, insufTicient; tlie grubs may 

 be destroyed by starvation; crops of buckwheat and mustard recommended for 

 repelling the grubs ; bow and when salt may be used with benefit. 



Cat- Worms. Read before the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, at 

 the Annual Meeting, January 21, 1885. (Forty-fourth Annual 

 Report of the New York State Agricultural Society, for the year 

 1884 [May], 1885, pp. 56-80, figs. 1-20.) (Separate, with cover 

 and half-title [June, 1885], pp. 25, figs. 20.) 



The subject is treated of under the following heads: What are Cut- worms? 



— Their Appearance — Their Habits — Habits of the Moths — Natural History 



— Conditions Favorable to Cut-worms — Their Food-plants — Abundance of 

 Cut- worms — Literature of the Cut-worms — List of Species — Natural Enemies 

 . — Parasites — Preventives and Remedies — Two Preventives Specially Com- 

 mended — Conclusion, 



A Potato-bug Parasite. (The New England Homestead, for June 

 6, 1885, xix, p. 237, c. 2—34 cm.) 



Some Colorado potato-beetles received from Middlesex county, Mass., badly 

 infested with a mite which were killing the beetles, were identified as Uropoda 

 Americana Eiley. Description is given of it, its peculiar connecting filament 

 remarked upon, habits of the family of OamasidcB to which it belongs, noticed, 

 together with the importance of the attack, and recommendation of distribution 

 of the serviceable parasite. [Printed also in this Report, see page 116.] 



The Yisitation of Locusts. (The Argus [Albany], June 7, 1885, p. 

 4, c. 5—33 cm.) 



The announced co-appearance of the 17-year locusts and the 13-year locusts will 

 not occur in New York; why "locust " is a misnomer; not 221 years, as stated, 

 since the two forms of Cicadas concurred, but only 30 years, also 39 years ago; 

 no ground for alarm, as the Cicada injures fruit trees only, and those usually not 

 seriously; notice of the brood of 17-year Cicadas to appear about the present 

 time in New York, at Brooklyn and Rochester. 



The Pear-blight Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for June 18, 1885, 

 L, p. 517, c. 2, 3—46 cm.) 



Xyleborris pyri (Peck), infesting the trunks of young apple trees and killing 

 them, at Annapolis, Md., are identified ; description of the beetle; origin of 

 its common name; its two forms of attack; the burrows in the limbs and in 

 the trunk described; the latter ascribed to a second brood but are probably 

 made by the mature insect for food and shelter ; remedy for the limb attack, 

 cutting oif and burning Avith the insect ; for the trunk attack, not yet known- 

 printed also in this Report, see page 107.] 



The Canker-worm. (Country Gentleman, for June 18, 1885, L, p. 

 519, c. 2, 3—20 cm.) 



Spread of the Canker-worm Anisopteryx vernata (Peck) in the State of New 

 York ; notice of its presence in large numbers at Loudonville, Albany county ; 

 the attack is controllable at the outset, and should not be allowed to extend. The 

 preventives and remedies are, bands, etc., to prevent the ascent of the wing- 

 less female, spraying with Paris green water to kill the larvfe, and working the 

 ground beneath the trees to crush the pupae. 



