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77 Isosoma grande Riley. Principal food plant: wheat. 
Treatment: same as preceding. 
Chief accessible articles: Riley, C. V. U. S. dep’t agric. Rep’t, 
"84. p. 357-58; Webster, F. M. U.S. dep’t agric. Rep’t, ’84. p. 383-87; 
, Rep’t, ’85. p. 311-15; Riley, C. V. U.S. 1M agric. 
Rep’t, ’86. p. 542-46. 
78 Chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus Say. Prnenal 
food plants: grasses, small grains, corn. 
Treatment: Burn grass, etc. sheltering hibernating bugs, sow 
decoy plots, plow badly infested areas or spray with kerosene 
emulsion, protect cultivated crops by barriers. 
Chief accessible articles: Lintner, J. A., state ent. 2d rep’t, ’85. 
p. 148-64; Webster, F. M. U. S. dep’t agric. div. ent. Bul. 15, n. s. 
98. p. 1-82. | ; 
79 Red-legged locust, Melanoplus femur-rubrum 
DeG. Principal food plants: grasses and grains. | 
Treatment: Plow young hoppers under, collect with hopper- 
dozer; poisoned bran mash. 7 
Chief accessible article: Lintner, J. A., state ent. 10th rep’t, 794. 
p. 439-45. : 
80 Melanopl us femoratus Burm. Same as 79. 
81 Pellucid locust, Camnula pellucida Scudd. Same 
as 79. 
82 Carolina locust, Disso gsteira carolina Linn. Same 
as 79. 
838 Circotettix verruculatus-Scudd. Sameas79. 
HOUSEHOLD INSECTS (84-99) 
84 Little red ant, Monomorium pharaonis Linn. 
Principal food: sweets, lard, ete. 
Treatment: Destroy nests with carbon bisulfid, kerosene 
emulsion or boiling water, trap with lard or sponge cupped in 
sweetened water and destroy. 
Chief accessible articles: Marlatt, ¢. L. U. 8S: dept agnrice dive 
ent. Bul. 4, n. s. 796. p. 95-99; —— Circ. 34, 2d s.’98. p. 1-43 
Lintner, J. A., state ent. 11th rep’t,.’95. p. 109-14; Felt wars 
N. Y. state agric. soc. Trans. ’99. 59:298-99. 
