178 FoRTr-THiRD Report on the State Museum. [82] 



Lepidoptera of the Adirondack Region. Collected by W. AV. Hill in 

 1875-1878. (Seventh Annual Report on the Progress of the 

 Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region of New York, by 

 Veri^lanck Colvin, Albany, 1880, pp. 375-400. Separate, with title- 

 page and cover [November], 1880, pp. 375-400.) 



Records 415 species collected, with sexBS and dates of collection. 

 Remarks upon the method of sugaring employed ; proportion of the 

 sexes tabulated : rare and new species; sub-arctic character of some of 

 the species ; successful collection of Plusias ; Plusias at sugar and at 

 flowers; local lists of Lepidoptera published. 



Report on some Injurious Insects of the Year 1879. [Presented to 

 the N. Y. State Agricultural Society at its annual meeting, Jatouary 

 21, 1880.] (Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the N. Y. State Agri- 

 cultural Society, 1880, pp. 35-55.) Also [in Ti-ansactions of the 

 N. Y. State Agricultural Society for 1877-1882, xxxiii, 1884, pp. 

 142-164, figs. 4]. 



After prefatory remarks on the progress and present position of 

 economic entomology in the United Stateg, the following insects are 

 discussed : the clover-seed midge, Cecidomyia leguminicola Lintn., 

 p. 144; the clover- root borer, Hijlesinus trlfolii Miill., with figures, 

 p. 148; the wheat-stem maggot, Meromyza Americana Fitch, p. 150; the 

 corn curculio, SphenopUorus zece Walsh, with -figures, p. 154 ; the stalk- 

 borer, Gortyita nitela Guenee with figures, p. 157 ; the apple-tree case- 

 bearer, ColeopJiora malivorella Riley, with figures, p. 161 ; concluding 

 with a notice (p. 163) of the entomological labors of Dr. Asa Fitch, whose 

 death had occurred during the year (April 8, 1879). 



[Address before the Farmers' Club of Onondago county, N. Y., 

 December 4, 1880.] (Syracuse Morning Standard, for December 6, 

 1880; p. 4, c. 2, 3, 4 — 129 cm.) 



The magnitude of agricultural interests ; importance of entomological 

 investigations ; progress made in entomological study ; its absolute 

 necessity; causes for increase in insect ravages; promoted by cultiva- 

 tion of crops in large areas ; increase of apple insects ; why it is neces- 

 sary to contend with insect pests ; how they may be best controlled ; 

 how economic entomology mtiy be ]3romoted ; its study in schools ; aid 

 that legislation may extend ; what the general government and the 

 State have already done. 



The Bean Weevil — Bruchus Fabse. (Country Gentleman, for Janu- 

 ary 6, 1881, xlvi, p. 7, c. 2 — 12 cm.) 



Field and garden beans from Northampton, Mass., are infested with 

 the above insect — its first appearance in this locality in forty years' 

 experience. It was noticed about twenty years previously in some of 

 the New England States ; is now common in New York, and is extend- 

 ing over the Western States. As it may easily be distributed in planting 



