364 Forty- FOURTH Report on the State Museum 



[Collections in Keene Valley, N; Y.] (Albany Evening Journal, 

 for August 16, 1890, p. 6 — 6 cm.) 



Brief notice of collections made in the Adirondacks by the State Ento- 

 mologist, during July and August, and of a reported disease of pine- 

 trees near Keene Valley. 



Insect Parasites. (Country Gentleman, for August 21, 1890, Iv, 

 p. 662, c. 1 — 5 cm.) 



The green grapevine Sphinx received from Geneva, N. Y., has been 

 parasitized by Apanteles congregatus (Say), the cocoons and matured 

 insects of which were in the box when received. For particulars of this 

 common attack, see Fifth Eeport Ins. N. Y., 1889, p. [35] 177. 



The Carpet Beetle. (Country Gentleman, for August 21, 1890, Iv, 

 p. 662, c. 3 — 4 cm.) 



Insects from Dorchester, Mass., the neighborhood of which is reported 

 ''full of them," are the Anthrenus scrophularice. Kemedies: use of 

 kerosene or benzine ; leave carpets unnailed and make frequent search 

 beneath the border for the larvae. 



[Severe Bite of a Horse-fly.] (Albany Evening Journal, for 

 August 28, 1890, p. 8, c. 3 — 4 cm.) 



A horse before a wagon, standing by the sidewalk in Central avenue, 

 pranced and threw himself to the ground, from the pain of a bite of a 

 horse-fly [Tabanus atrata] fastened to him. The fly, which was secured, 

 was unusually large, measuring two and one-fourth inches in expanse 

 of wings. 



A Curious Jumping Gall. (Popular Science News, for August, 

 1890, xxiv, p. 119, c. 1-3 — 47 cm.) 



To an inquiry froni Weybridge, England, of a curious insect on a 

 bough of May bloom, resembling a bud, answer is made that it is prob- 

 ably the bedeguar of the hawthorn, Cecidomyia cratcegi Winnertz : note 

 from Dr. Eiley thereon. Other jumping galls are mentioned. 



[See pages 308-310 of this Report.] 



[The Midge or Punky of the Adirondacks.] (Albany Evening 

 Journal, for September 5, 1890, p. 5, c. 2 — 9 cm.) 



In reply to inquiry made of the name of the above insect, it is stated : 

 " Midge " or " gnat " is too general a name for it ; punky would be pre- 

 ferable, and it will be given in the forthcoming Century Dictionary. 

 "The little gray gnat" would be a good designation for it. It belongs 

 to the genus Cerato'pogon, but is without a specific name. There may 

 be different species of it, as there are of the Adirondack black-fly. 



