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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



New insect foe to the cut worm. (New England homestead. Oct. 31, 

 1885. 19 : 405, col. 3-4) 

 Brief account of a cut worm parasite, a species of Gonia. 



Saw fly oil fruit trees. (Country gentleman. Nov. 12, 1885. 50 + 921^'*) 

 Notices briefly an attack in Scotland by a saw fly, probably Eriocampa 

 adu7nbrata, and gives remedies. 



2d report on the injurious and other insects of the state of New York. 

 Made to the legislature, pursuant to ch. 377 of the laws of 1881. 

 Albany : Weed, Parsons & Co., legislative printers. 1885. 14+265P., 

 68 iig. [Issued Feb. 20, 1886] 



Contents 



Introduction 



Notes of various insect attacks... 



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1 

 . 5 



Remedies and preventives 24 



Miscellaneous notes 39 



Injurious Lepidopterous insects 



Melittia cucurhitae l8atyri)tiformis'] , 

 squash vine borer 57 



Orgyin INotoJoplius'] Jeucosiigmn, 



white marked tussock moth 68 



Plusia hrassicae, cahhage Fiasioj .. 89 



Plusia dyaus ? Irogationis Gueii.] .. 94 

 Ampliidasys \_Lycia'] cognataria, 



currant Amphidasys 97 



Sitotroga cerealella, Angoumois 



moth 102 



Bihio alhipennis, white winoed 

 Bibio 110 



Dipterous insects 



Microdon glohosus .'. 116 



Trypeta jjomonella, apple maggot . 117 



Injurious Coleopterous insects 



AmpMcerus hicaudatus, apple twig 

 borer 125 



Lema trilineata, three lined leaf 

 beetle 132 



Tribolium ferrugineum 136 



Brachytarsus variegafua 139 



Aramigus fulleri, Fuller's rose 

 beetle , 142 



Injurious Hemipterous insects 



Cosmopepla carnifex 144 



Blissus leucopterus, chinch bug 148 



Largus succinctus, margined Largus 164 



Cicada septendecim, 17 year locust . 167 

 CJtermes pinicortieis, pine bark 

 C hermes 180 



Orthopterous and Neuropterous insects 



Chimaroeephala {Choi'tophagal viri- 1 Achomtes \^Schoturu8] nivicola, 



(ii/asciaia, green striped locust. 187 snow flea 203 



Atropos divinatoria 198 ' LipMrafimetaria lAphoruraarmata^ 208 



