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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



New insect foe to the cut worm. (New England homestead. Oct. 31, 

 1885. 19 : 405, col. 3-4) 

 Brief account of a cut worm parasite, a species of Gonia. 



Saw fly on fruit trees. (Country gentleman. Nov. 12, 1885. 



Notices briefly an attack in Scotland by a saw fly, probably Eriocampa 

 adumbrata, and gives remedies. 



2d report on the injurious and other insects of the state of New York. 

 Made to the legislature, pursuant to ch. 377 of the laws of 1881. 

 Albany : Weed, Parsons & Co., legislative printers. 1885. 

 68 fig. [Issued Feb. 20, 1886] 



Contents 



PAGE 



Introduction 1 



Notes of various insect attacks 5 



Remedies and preventives 24 



Miscellaneous notes.. 39 



Melittia cucurbitae [satyriniformis] , 

 squash vine borer 57 



Orgyia [Notolophus~\ leucostigma, 



white marked tussock moth 68 



Plusia brassicae, cabbage Plusia .. 89 



Injurious Lepidopterous insects 



Plusia dyaus ? [rogationis Guen.] .. 94 

 Amphidasys [Lycra] cognataria, 



currant Amphidasys ,. 97 



Sitotroga cerealella, Angoumois 



moth .. .102 



Dipterous insects 



Bibio albipennis, white winged 

 Bibio.. . 110 



Microdon globosus 116 



Trypeta pomonella, apple maggot . 117 



Amphicerus bicaudatus, apple twig 

 borer 125 



Lema trilineata, three lined leaf 

 beetle . . . 132 



Injurious Coleopterous insects 



Tribolium ferrugineum 136 



Brachytarsus variegaius 139 



Aramigus fulleri, Fuller's rose 

 beetle . . .142 



Injurious Hemipterous insects 



Cosmopepla carnifex 144 



Blissus leucopterus, chinch bug 148 



Largus succinctus, margined Largus 164 



Cicada septendecim, 17 year locust . 167 

 Chermes pinicorticis, pine bark 

 Chermes.., . 180 



Orthopterous and Neuropterous insects 



Chimarocephala \_ChortopJiaga~] viri- 



difasciata, green striped locust . 187 

 Atropos divinatoria 198 



Achorutes [Sehoturus] nivicola, 

 snow flea 203 



Lipurafimetaria [Aphorura armata] 208 



