Report of the State Entomologist 378 



Economic Entomology during the year 1877. (Thirty-seventh 



Annual Eeport of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 1878, 



pp. 37-39.) (Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural 



Society, xxxiii, 1877-1882 : 1884 PP- 17-20.) 



Importance of economic investigations as shown by the operations of 

 the U. S. Entomological Commission ; annual losses from insect injuries ; 

 necessity of their prevention; additions to the literature of economic 

 entomology; notice of the operations of Nephopteryx [Pinipestis] 

 Zimmermani, in pine, and of Cossus Centerensis in poplars near Albany. 



Contribution to the Economical Entomology of the Year 1876. 

 (Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, xxxii, 

 1872-1876: 1878, pp. 236-243.) [A paper presented at the 

 Annual Meeting of the State Agricultural Society, January 17, 

 1877.] (Country Gentleman of May 31 and June 7, 1877.) 



Notices the army- worm, Leucania unipuncta; the abundance of the 

 Colorado potato-beetle, and measures for preventing its introduction into 

 Europe ; the grape-seed fly ; the new carpet-beetle, Anthrenus scrophu- 

 laricB ; and the operations of an unknown potato insect tunneling 

 potatoes. 



Eeport on the Insects and other Animal Forms of Caledonia Creek, 

 N. Y. (Tenth Annual Eeport of the New York Fishery Com- 

 mission, for the year 1877 : 1878, pp. 12-36, plates 1 and 2. 

 Also, separate, with title-page and cover, pp. 1-25, plates 1 and 2, 



August, 1878.) 



Examination of the waters made in view of its supposed unusual 

 abundance of animal life, in reference to the desirability of transporting 

 its peculiar vegetation and associated insect and crustacean fauna, to 

 other streams, as food for trout ; the animal forms found in the mosses 

 and other vegetation. The Fishes. Reptiles. Crustaceans — the abund- 

 ant Gammarus fasciatus Say. Insects: Coleoptera; Diptera; Hemip- 

 tera ; Neuroptera — Perlidas, Ephemeridae, Odonata, Phryganeidae (three 

 subfamilies noticed). Vermes. MoUusca. The following considerations 

 are presented : Crustaceans as food for Fishes, p. 14. Insects as food 

 for Fishes, p. 17. Mollusca as food for Fishes, p. 18. Plants as food for 

 Fishes, p. 18. The desirability of transplanting fish-food, p. 19. The 

 practicability of transplanting fish-food, p. 21. The propagation of fish- 

 food, p. 22. 



Description of a New Species of Anisota. (Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist, for January, 1879, xi, pp. 10-12.) 



Anisota hisecta is described from an example taken by Dr. P. R. Hoy, 

 in Racine, Wisconsin. 



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