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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. 50 + 921^*) 

 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. 14+265P., 

 6S fig. [Issued Feb. 20, 1886] 



Co7itents 



Introduction 



Notes of various Insect attacks... 



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1 

 5 



Remedies and preventives 24 



Miscellaneous notes 39 



Injurious Lepidopterous insects 



Melittia cucvrtitae Isatyriniformis'] , 

 squash vine borer 57 



Orgyia [^Notolophus] leucosiigma, 



white marked tussock moth 68 



Plusia brassicae, cabbage Plusia . . 89 



Plusia dyaus ? Irogationis Guen.] .. 94 

 Amphidasys [iycia] cognataria, 



currant Amphidasys 97 



Sitotroga cerealella, Angoumois 



moth 102 



Dipterous insects 



Bibio albipennis, white winged 

 Bibio 110 



Microdon globosus 1 16 



Trypeta pomonella, apple maggot . 117 



Injurious Coleopterous insects 



Jmphicerus bieaudatus, apple twig 

 borer 125 



Lema trilineata, three lined leaf 

 beetle 132 



Tribolium ferrugineum 136 



Brachytarsua variegafus 139 



Aramigus fulleri, Fuller's rose 

 beetle 142 



Injurious Hemipterous insects 



Cosmopepla carnifcx 144 



Jilissus leucopteruH^ chinch bug 148 



Largus succinctus, margined Largus 164 



Cicada septendecim, 17 year locust . 167 

 Cliertnes j)^^^^^^'^^^^^) pine bark 

 Chermes 180 



Orthopterous and Neuropterous insects 



Chimaroccphala [Chortophaf/a^ vivi- 



difasciata, green striped locust . 187 

 A tropoa divinaloria 198 



Achorutes \^Sclioturu8] nivicola, 



snow flea 203 



Lipurajimetaria [Ajyhorura armata] 208 



