386 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Muskmelon borers at the south. (Country gentleman. Oct. 4, 1894. 



59:72126) 



General account of the two melon boring caterpillars in the southern states, 

 Eudioptls IMarf/aronia^ niiidalis Cram, and E. [llargaronia^ hyalinata Linn. 



Pear rust. (Country gentleman. Oct. 4, 1894. 59:722^') 



Pear shows a rust which may have been cansed by a mite, possibly 

 Phytojjtus 2>!jri. 



^ Pear rust' — cause unknown. (Country gentleman. Oct. 25, 1894. 



59:773'') 



The above is probably but an uiuisual dev-elopmeut of its natural rust. 



Indian Cetonia. (Gardening. Nov. i, 1894. 3:55-56,001. 3, i) 



Gives the habits of Euryomia \_Eiiphoria} hida and states that the reported 

 injury to the bark of young pear trees is confirmatory of an earlier state- 

 ment. 



Injurious beetles. (Gardening. Nov. i, 1894. 3:56,00!. 1-2) 



Brief notice of Euryomia lEiq)horia^ inda, CyUcne rohiuiae Forster and 

 GlycoMus IFlagionoius^ speciosus Say. 



Maple tree borer. (Gardening. Nov. i, 1894. 3:56, col. 2) 



Identifies the pupal case of Aegeria {^Sesia] accnti Clem and gives remedies. 



Squash bug. (Gardening. November i, 1894. 3:56, col. 2, 3) 

 Gives several remedies for the squash bug, Anaaa tristis De Geer. 



Report of the state entomologist to the regents of the University of 



the State of New York, for the year 1893. Albany. November 1894. 



26 p. 



Contents 



PAGE L PAGK 



The destructive wheat midge in ' 

 western New York 183 



Transmittal 177 



Increasing interest in the work of 



the department 178 



Publications of the entomologist. 178 

 Additions to the state collection.. 179 

 Collections made in the Adiron- 

 dack mountains 179 



Operations against the gypsy moth 

 in Massachusetts 180 



Remarkable abundance of aphids 

 or plant lice 183 



Grasshopper plague in western 

 New York 186 



Insect defoliators of shade and 

 fruit tiees 188 



Appendix 

 Index to report for 1886 193 



San Jose scale. (Albany evening journal. Nov. 7, 1894. p. 6, col. 5) 

 Notes the finding of AMpidioht.s pcnticiosns in a pear orchard at Kinderhook 

 N. Y., and gives its distril)nti()n. 



