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county pear orchard, 34=8. Its operations observed by Mr. Pomroy, 

 348. Rearing the beetle from infested stock, 349. Its burrows and 

 their white lining, 349. The young feed on the white substance, 

 350. Comparative rarity of the male, 350. X obesus confounded 

 with it, 350. The identity of X pyri with X dispar recently estab- 

 lished, 349. The eggs of the beetle, 351. A new depredator on 

 quinc.e blossoms found in Limonius confusus, one of the snapping 

 beetles, 351. Its numbers and their injuries, 351. The peach bark- 

 borer, Phlceoteibus liminakis, 351. Formerly supposed to cause 

 the "yellows," 352. Not an elm-boring insect, 352. The bark- 

 boring Scolytids difficult to control, 352. Hope of reaching them 

 with kerosene, 352. The cherry-tree slug, Eriocampa cerasi, 352 . 

 Prevalent and injurious at West Farms, N. Y., 352. Easily con- 

 trollable by hellebore in water, 352 . The currant-stem girdler, 352. 

 Its operations described, 352. The insect not yet detected, 353. 

 The grapevine flea-beetle, Haltica chalybea, 353 . Means for its 

 control, 353. A plant-bug, Podisus modestus preys upon it, 353. 

 A new rose pest observed in Ausable Forks, N . Y . , 354 . The insect 

 unknown, but believed to be the larva of a saw-fly, 354. It bur- 

 rows downward into the twigs, 354. Unsuccessful efforts to rear 

 it, 354. Various Attacks of Fruit-insects noticed, 354. The 

 apple-leaf Bucculatrix in Western and Central New York, 354 . The 

 apple-leaf miner, Tischeria malifoliella, in Albany county, 354. 

 The hickory tussock-caterpillar, Halisidota caryoe, in Dutchess 

 county, on a cherry tree, 355. The oblique-banded leaf- roller, 

 CaccBda rosaceana, destroying pear buds at Seneca Falls, N. Y., 

 355. The remedy for this common fruit-tree pest, 355. The eye- 

 spotted bud-moth, Tmetocera ocellana, burrowing into the new 

 growth of plum twigs, at Geneva, N . Y . , 355 . The V-shaped Tor- 

 trix, Caccecia argyrospila, eating into young pears, at Rochester, 

 355. A new enemy of the currant- worm found in the plant-bug, 

 Podisus cynicuSy 356. The importation of the currant- worm 

 charged upon a prominent member of the W. N. Y. Horticultural 

 Society, 356 . 



(B) LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST 357 



Gypsy Moth in Medf ord, Mass . : Insect Pests of the State of 

 New York: Mites Infesting Smoked Meats: Useful Insects, 357. 

 A Singular Fly : Fighting the Insect Pests : Late Experiences with 



