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ined than elsewhere seen ; the wheat greatly shriveled ; life-history of the insect , 

 its description : two parasites infest it ; remedies found in burning the stubble 

 and straw ; preventive in rotation of crops. 



A Stinging Bug — Melanolestes picipes H.-S. 



[Country Gentleman for October 23, 15-34. XT/rx, p. S77, c. 2-3 — 40 cm. J 



An insect reported as inflicting a painful sting upon a lady in Natchez, Miss., is 

 Melanolestes picipes, or the 4i Black Corsair." It is distributed over the United 

 States, and has been previously noticed for the serious wounds it inflicts. Other 

 Hemiptera of the SeduoUda having similar stinging habits, are the Conorhinus 

 sanguisuga Leconte, Melanolestes abdominalis (H.-S.) , Redunus personatus (Linn.), 

 and Prionotus cristatus (Linn.). The above are briefly noticed in their habits and 

 painful wounds. 



An Attack upon the Apple- Worm — A Friend, not a Foe. 



[Country Gentleman for October 30. 1854, xxrx, p. 897, c. 2-4—52 cm.] 

 A larva sent from Crozet, Va., as injurious to apples, from eating large holes 

 into their sides and causing rot, proves to be that of Chauliognatfms marginatus 

 (Fabr.). It is not injurious, but enters apples through holes already made, to feed 

 upon the apple-worm — the larva of Carpocapsa pomonella. The larva and beetle 

 are described, the latter by comparison with Oh. Pennsylcanicus. The holes in 

 quinces, thought to have been made by the same larva, are probably those of the 

 quince curculio, Conotrachelus cratagi, in leaving the fruit. 



Clover Insects. 



[Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, x xt ttt, 1877-1852, [October], 1884, pp. 206-207.] 

 In the republication of the paper on " The Insects of the Clover Plant," from 

 the annual report of the society for the year i33o, a list of the names with refer- 

 ence to authorities of twenty-four species is given, as an addition to the forty-six 

 previously recorded, making the number now known, seventy. Mention is made 

 of the list of apple insects (additions in MS ) being extended to one hundred and 

 eighty. 



The White Grub. 



[The New England Homestead for November 5, 1384, xnn, p. 393, c. 1-3 — 80 cm.] 

 Treats of the insect under the following heads : The grub, the beetle, its distri- 

 bution, its food-plants, injuries by the beetle, life-history, its enemies, prevent- 

 ives and remedies. Under the latter head, salt is recommended as an experi- 

 ment, while starvation is pronounced infallible. 



Report of the State Entomologist to the Regents of the University of 

 the State of New York, for the Year 1883. 



[I . .ry-seventh Annual Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History, by the Regents of 

 the University of the State of New York, (November), 1884, pp. 45-60. ] 



Reports upon the collections made during the year and other work of the ento- 

 mologist. Among insects of special interest collected are some Trypetido?- 

 Grapta Faanus and G. j-album. Feniseca Tarquinius, Agrilus torpidus; remarks 

 upon Agrotis clandestina and Simulium molestum; notice of the operations of Or 

 gyia leucostigma in girdling elm twigs and causing them to drop; the English spar- 

 row promoting insect injury; an extended notice of the appearance of the chinch- 

 bug, Blhssusleucopterus, in northern New York, with recommendations made, and 

 distributed in a circular, for the arrest of its ravages. 



The Apple-Leaf Bucculatrix. 



[The Husbandman (Elmira, N. Y.) for December 3, 1884, xi. No. 537. p. 1, c. 5 — 31 cm.] 

 Apple twigs received from Malcolm, Seneca county, N. Y., are covered with 

 the cocoons of Bucculatrix pomifoliella. The cocoon is described and life-his- 

 tory of the species given. The remedies mentioned are spraying, or scouring with a 

 stiff brush the infested branches with a kerosene oil and soap emulsion, of which 

 the formula is given, for killing the insect within the cocoon ; Paris green in water 

 for poisoning the caterpillars, and jarring the caterpillars from the trees and burn- 

 ing them in the months of July and September. 



