﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  ENTOMOLOGIST 
  315 
  

  

  the 
  year 
  1884, 
  and 
  at 
  Rochester, 
  Monroe 
  county 
  in 
  1892. 
  On 
  June 
  2d 
  

   of 
  the 
  present 
  year 
  (1896), 
  Mr, 
  A. 
  P. 
  Case 
  of 
  Vernon, 
  Oneida 
  county, 
  

   sent 
  to 
  me 
  asparagus 
  twigs 
  bearing 
  numerous 
  eggs 
  of 
  the 
  beetle, 
  and 
  

   shoots 
  eaten 
  by 
  the 
  larv«. 
  He 
  writes 
  : 
  — 
  " 
  The 
  insect 
  has 
  appeared 
  

   since 
  Saturday 
  last 
  (May 
  30th) 
  on 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  asparagus 
  beds 
  here, 
  where 
  

   they 
  have 
  never 
  before 
  been 
  seen. 
  Every 
  sprout 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  the 
  

   worms, 
  and 
  the 
  new 
  seedling 
  shoots 
  are 
  alive 
  with 
  the 
  full-grown 
  worms, 
  

   and 
  newly 
  hatched 
  ones 
  are 
  burrowing 
  into 
  the 
  stalks. 
  " 
  The 
  tops 
  of 
  the 
  

   young 
  shoots 
  are 
  alive 
  with 
  the 
  mature 
  worms 
  which 
  eat 
  them 
  off 
  as 
  

   they 
  appear. 
  The 
  crop 
  is 
  worthless 
  for 
  this 
  year." 
  During 
  the 
  meeting 
  

   of 
  the 
  Association 
  of 
  Economic 
  Entomologists, 
  at 
  Buffalo, 
  a 
  further 
  

   western 
  extension 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  within 
  our 
  State 
  was 
  brought 
  to 
  my 
  

   notice, 
  in 
  examples 
  given 
  me 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Ottomar 
  Reinecke 
  of 
  that 
  city 
  

   which 
  were 
  collected 
  by 
  him 
  August 
  20th 
  from 
  wild 
  asparagus 
  growing 
  in 
  

   the 
  outskirts 
  of 
  the 
  city. 
  

  

  [On 
  June 
  2d, 
  1897, 
  information 
  was 
  received 
  of 
  its 
  abundant 
  presence 
  

   in 
  a 
  garden 
  at 
  Geneseo, 
  Livingston 
  Co., 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  attacking 
  the 
  

   young 
  shoots 
  as 
  they 
  appeared 
  above 
  ground, 
  and 
  destroying 
  the 
  crop.] 
  

  

  The 
  Ash-grey 
  Blister 
  Beetle. 
  

  

  The 
  ash-grey 
  blister 
  beetle, 
  Macrobasis 
  unicolor 
  (Kirby) 
  was 
  received 
  

   (June 
  9th) 
  from 
  New 
  York 
  city, 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  reported 
  as 
  feeding 
  

   destructively 
  on 
  a 
  locust 
  hedge. 
  The 
  young 
  and 
  tender 
  leaves 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  the 
  branches 
  had 
  been 
  eaten 
  over 
  the 
  entire 
  extent 
  of 
  the 
  hedge 
  of 
  

   about 
  600 
  feet 
  in 
  length. 
  They 
  were 
  driven 
  away 
  or 
  killed 
  when 
  the 
  

   pyrethrum 
  powder 
  recommended 
  for 
  them, 
  was 
  applied. 
  

  

  Examples 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  insect 
  came 
  June 
  25th 
  from 
  Factoryville, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  

   where 
  they 
  were 
  rapidly 
  destroying 
  the 
  leafage 
  of 
  potato 
  vines. 
  

  

  The 
  Chinch 
  Bug. 
  

  

  A 
  correspondent 
  from 
  Almond, 
  Allegany 
  Co., 
  writes 
  that 
  this 
  insect 
  

   Blissus 
  leiicopterus 
  Say, 
  is 
  very 
  thick 
  on 
  his 
  new 
  seeding 
  and 
  has 
  ruined 
  

   his 
  pastures, 
  and 
  that 
  it 
  has 
  destroyed 
  his 
  meadows 
  for 
  the 
  past 
  4 
  or 
  

   5 
  years. 
  They 
  were 
  working 
  in 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  his 
  300 
  or 
  400 
  acres 
  

   of 
  land. 
  Mr. 
  Van 
  Duzee, 
  in 
  his 
  collections 
  in 
  Erie 
  and 
  Niagara 
  coun- 
  

   ties 
  the 
  present 
  year, 
  has 
  met 
  with 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  individuals 
  of 
  

   the 
  species. 
  

  

  