20 Bulletin op the New York State Museum. 



In the First Annual Report on the Insects of Missouri, published 

 in 1869 (pp. 67-91), Prof. Riley adds mate- 

 rially to our knowledge of these insidious 

 depredators, in an article entitled " Cut- 

 worms : The Natural History of Twelve 

 Distinct Species." Of these, four are 

 described as " climbing cut-worms," from 

 their habit of ascending trees at night to 

 feed upon the buds and leaves. They have 

 been found abundantly upon apple and 

 pear trees, especially upon the dwarf vari- 

 eties and upon grapevines, preying upon 

 Fig. 23— laphygma feugi- the buds. They also attack the blackberry. 

 pebda and varieties. the rasp berry, currant, and rose bushes. 



The transformations of ten^species are given, together with figures 

 and descriptions of the caterpillar and^.the moth ; and two other 

 species, previously described in their^several stages by Dr. Fitch, 

 are referred to. A wheat cut-worm p is also described and history 

 given, which subsequently proved to be Laphygma frugiperda 

 Guenee. The moth is^shown in^Figure 23, and its larva in Figure 

 18. The natural enemies^ and^remedies for these destructive 

 creatures close the notice. 



Dr. Packard, in his Guide to the Study of Insects, 1869 (pp, 

 305-310), introduces figures of a few of the more common species, 

 and quotes from the writings of Dr. Harris and Prof. Riley. 



In the Seventh Annual Report on the Insects of Illinois, published 

 in 1878 by Dr. Cyrus Thomas,|Prof. G. H. French presents, in con- 

 nection with his study of corn insects, a paper of twenty pages 

 (pp. 81-100) upon the Cut-worms of the Field and Garden. Some 

 general remarks upon these insects are followed by mention of 

 natural and artificial remedies and by remarks upon the habits and 

 characteristics of twelve species. 



In the same report (pp. 202-219) Prof. French has given a second 

 notice of cut-worms, in which descriptions of the moths of fourteen 

 species appear, and of the larvae of most of them, together with 

 observations upon the habits, etc., of several of the species made by 

 himself and by Mr. C. E. "Worthington, of Chicago, 111. /; :ir ;.._/* 



In the Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario for the 

 year 1879, pp. 37-46, is a paper on " Canadian Cut- worms," by Mr.' 

 G. J. Bowles, of Montreal, in which twelve species are noticed, 



