LINTNER : ENTOMOLOGIC PUBLICATIONS 385 



Rose bugs. (Country gentleman. July 5, 1894. 59 . 504^^) 



Recommeuds collecting by mechanical devices as described by Dr Smith. 



Friendly insects. (Country gentleman. July 5, 1894. 59 : 504^^) 



Identifies the twice stabbed lady bird, Chilocorus hirulnerus Muls., and 

 describes its beneficial habits. 



Hellgramite fly. (Country gentleman. July 12, 1894. 59:520^^) 



Corydalis cornuta identified. Its larva is known to fishermen as 'the 

 dobson.' 



Plant lice at the roots of asters, etc. (Gardening. July 15, 1894. 

 2:358,001.1) 



Root lice attacking asters, chiysantbemuins and other plants are probably 

 Jpliis middletonii Thos., several remedies are given. 



Ants in strawberry beds. (Country gentleman. Aug. 2, 1894. 

 59:568^^) 



Recommends bisulfid of carbon for the destruction of their nests or hills. 



Grape vine caterpillar. (Country gentleman. Aug. 2, 1894. 59:568^^) 

 Identifies Thyreus adhotii and refers out3 ' looking like a snake with the 

 head of a frog' to the Geonietridac. 



Enemies of the potato beetle. (Country gentleman. Aug. 2, 1894. 



59:568^') 



States that there are many enemies of the Colorado potato beetle. 



Elm leaf beetle. (Country gentleman. Aug. 16, 1894. 59:600^^) 

 Spraying the foliage with paris gicen or loi don purple is recommended. 



Above ground buildings of the 17 year cicada. (New York daily 

 tribune. Aug. 21, 1894. p. 12, col. 2) 



Brief abstract of a paper read before the American association for the 

 advancement of science. 



Worm destroying canna leaves. (Florist's exchange. Sep. 8, 1894. 

 6:788) 



Insects are identified as Pamphila [Calpodes^ ethlius and as probably the 



common Sjjilosoma IPyrrharctial isahella. * 



Sumac galls. (Country gentleman. Sep. 20, 1894. 59:686^*) 



Brief notice of an aphis, Melajphis rhois Fitch, and its galls on Eh us glabra 

 and B. typliina. 



Box elder plant bug. (Country gentleman. Sep. 27, 1894. 59:699^^) 

 Insect on the city sidewalks of Shenandoah, Iowa, is identified from the 

 description as Leptocoris trivittatus Say. 



Beetle feeding on green corn. (Country gentleman. Sep. 27, 1894. 

 59:701^^) 



Beetle, Euphoria in da Linn., feeding on the tips of standing sweet corn, 

 is noticed briefly. 



