362 NEW YORK STATE M17SEUM 



5th report on the injurious and other insects of the state of New York. 

 Albany, the Troy press company, printers, 1889. [Issued Nov. 23, 

 1889] 205 })., 50 fig. Also as report of the state entomologist to the 

 regents of the University of the State of New York, for the year 1888. 

 (State museum of natural history. 42d annual report of the trustees, for 

 the year 1888 [Nov. 20, 1889]. p. .145-347, fig. 1-50) 



Contents * page 



Transmittal 151 



Remedies and preventives of insect attack 



Cutting out the squash vine borer 155 



Change of soil for strawberry pLiiits 156 



Brine for the currant worm 156 



Saltpetre not ji preventive of cabbage fly attack 157 



Preventives for cabbage fly attack 158 



Beans for repelling the striped cucumber beetle 159 



Gas lirae for th*? woolly aphis 160 



How to kill the apple tree aphis 160 



Tobacco dust for aphis attack 162 



A lime wash for bark lice 163 



Injurious Hymenoptera 



JH^ematus [^Lygaeonematus] ericliaonii Hartig, larch saw fly , 164 



Nematus salicis-pomum Walsh [ Pontania jJomum'], willow apple gall saw fly 173 



Injurious Lepidoptera 



Darapsa \^Ampelophaga^ niyron Cramer, green j^rape vine sphinx 174 



Alypia octomaculata Fabr. and Eudryas \_Eut]iisa)wtia'] grata Fabr., eight 



spotted forester and beautiful wood nymph 179 



Phohetron pitheciiim Sm.-Abb., hag moth cater()illar 183 



Anisota senatoria '&\\\-k\>h., senatorial oak moth J 92 



Agrotis \^Peridvoma'\ srtwc/« Hiibn., variegated cutworm 200 



Mamesira picta Harris, zebra cabbaj^e caterpillar 206 



Mamtstra grandis Boisd., ()oplar feeding cut worm 210 



Penthina nimhatana Clemens, rose leaf tyer 213 



Incurvaria acerifoliella Fitch , ma})le leaf cutter 215 



Injurious Diptera 

 Haematobia aerrata Kob.-Desv., cow horn fly 220 



Injurious Coleoptera 



Dynasies tityns Linn., B[)otfced horn bug 227 



Olerea himaculata Oliv., raspberry cane girdler 231 



Galeruca xanthomelaena Schrank [Galerucella Z«ieoZaMiill.], ehu leaf beetle 234 



Injurious Hemipteia 



Clastoptera ohtvsa Say, alder spittle insect 242 



Siplionophora avenae Fabr. [^Neotaropliora granaria Kirby], grain aphis 246 



Myzus cerasi Fabr., cherry aphis : 253 



