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 m.useum of natural history. 42d annual report of the trustees, for 

 the year i888 [Nov. 20, 1889]. p. 145-347, fig. 1-50) 



Contents page 



Transmittal 151 



Remedies 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 



Salti)etre not a preventive of cabbage fly attack 157 



Preventives for cabbage fly attack 158 



Beans for reiielling tbe striped cucumber beetle 159 



Gas lime for the woolly a])his 160 



How to kill the apple tree aphis 160 



Tobacco dust for aphis at tack 162 



A lime wash for bark lice 163 



Injurious Hymenoptera 



Nematus l^Lygaeonematus] ei'ichaonii Hartig, larch saw fly 164 



Nematus salicis-pomum Walsh [Pontania pomum^, willow apple gall saw fly 173 



Injurious Lepidoptera 



Darapsa lAmjyelojyhaga'] niyron Cramer, green grape vine sphinx 174 



Alypki octomaculata Fabr. and Eudryas \_Euthisanotia^ grata Fabr., eight 



spotted forester and beautiful wood nymph ." 179 



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



Anisota senatoria Sm-Abb., senatorial oak moth J92 



Agrotis IPeridroma^ saucia HUbn., variegated cutworm 200 



Mameatra picta Harris, zebra cabbage caterpillar 206 



Mamestra grandis ')io\&A., poplar feeding cut worm 210 



Penthina nimhatana Clemens, rose leaf tyer 213 



Incurvaria acerifoUella Fitch, maple leaf cutter 215 



Injurious Diptera 



Haematobia serrata Kob.-Desv., cow horn fly I 220 



Injurious Colcoi)tera 



Dynasies tiiyiis Linn., spotted horn bug 227 



Oherea Mmaculata Oliv., raspberry cane girdler 231 



Galernca xanihomelaena Schrank [Galerucella lNteolaM\i]\.~\,e]\u leaf beetle 234 



Ir)jurious Hemiptera 



CUiHtoittera ohiusa Say, alder spittle insect 242 



Siphonophora avenue Fal)r. \_Neclarophora granaria Kirby], grain aphis 246 



Myzua oerasi Fabr., cherry aphia 253 



