362 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



5th report on the injurious and other insects of the state of New York. 

 Albany, the Troy press company, printers, 1889. [Issued Nov. 23, 

 1889] 205 p., 50 fig. Also as report of the state entomologist to the 

 regents of the University of the State of New York, for the year 1888. 

 (State museum of natural history. 42d annual report of the trustees, for 

 the year 1888 [Nov. 20, 1889]. p. 145-347, fig. 1-50) 



Contents PAGE 



Trausmittal 151 



Eemedies and preventives of insect attack 



Cutting out the squash vine borer 155 



Change of soil for strawberry plants 156 



Brine for the currant worm 156 



Saltpetre not a preventive of cabbage fly attack 157 



Preventives for cabbage fly attack 158 



Beans for repelling the striped cucumber beetle 159 



Gas lime for th<3 woolly aphis 160 



How to kill the apple tree aphis 160 



Tobacco dust for aphis attack 162 



A liine wash for bark lice 163 



Injurious Hymenoptera 



Nematus [Lygaeonematus] erichsonii Hartig, larch saw fly 164 



Ncmatus salicis-pomum Walsh [Pontaniapomum], willow apple gall saw fly 173 



Injurious Lepidoptera 



Darapsa [Ampelophaga] myron Cramer, green grape vine sphinx 174 



Alypia octomaculata Fabr. and Eudryas [Euthisanotia] grata Fabr., eight 



spotted forester and beautiful wood nymph 179 



Phobetron pithecium Sm.-Abb., hag moth caterpillar 183 



Anisota senatoria Sin- Abb., senatorial oak moth 192 



A gratis [Peridromd} saucia Hiibn., variegated cut worm 200 



Mamestra picta Harris, zebra cabbage caterpillar 206 



Mamestra grandis Boisd., poplar feeding cut worm 210 



Penthina nimbatana Clemens, rose leaf tyer 213 



Incurvaria acerifoliella Fitch, maple leaf cutter 215 



Injurious Diptera 

 Haematobia serrata Rob.-Desv., cow horn fly 220 



Injurious Coleoptera 



Dynastes tityus Linn., spotted horn bug 227 



Oberea bimaculata Oliv., raspberry cane girdler 231 



Galeriica xantlwmelacna Schrank [Galerucella luteolaMti]}.], elm leaf beetle 234 



Injurious Hemiptera 



Clastoptera obtusa Say, alder spittle in.sect 242 



Siphonopkora avenae Fabr. [Nectarophora granaria Kirby], grain aphis 246 



Myzm cerasi Fabr., cherry aphis 253 



