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other remedies for their attack are gas-lime, breaking up the 

 sod, removing their food, and late ploughiag, 239. Two effective 

 preventives of cut-worm attack on corn, 239. The digging-out 

 remedy and testimony to its value, 240. Use of baits poisoned with 

 Paris green, 241. Other remedies named, 241. Losses from 

 Tobacco-worms in Massachusetts, 242. Sphinx quinquemaculata, its 

 larva, moth, and oviposition, 242. Abundance of the larva, 243. 

 Remedies are '' worming" and poisoning, 243. Collecting the moths, 



244. Hellebore and Paris green available against cut- worm injury to 

 tobacco, 244. The Apple maggot, a comparatively recent pest in 

 New England, 245. More injurious than the codling-moth worm, 



245. Principal characters of the perfect insect, 245. Oviposi- 

 tion and operations in the fruit, 245. Transformations of the 

 insect, 246. Features of the larva, 246. Is a native insect, 246. 

 Formerly fed on wild fruits, 246. Its westward extension, 246. 

 Operations and spread in New England, 246. A serious pest in New 

 York, 247. A local insect, 247. Early apples more liable to 

 attack, 247. Favorite varieties might be grown as lures, 247. 

 Additional study of the insect needed, 248. Desiderata in its 

 life-history, 249. An admirable study of the insect recently made, 

 249. The Asparagus beetle prevailing in Massachusetts, 250. 

 Description of the beetle, 250. The "cross-bearer" variety, 250. Its 

 well known associates in the family of Chrysomelidse, 250. A con- 

 gener, CHoceris 12-punctata has lately appeared in the vicinity of 

 Baltimore, 250. It also feeds on asparagus, 250. The introduction of 

 C. asparagi, — first seen on Long Island, 251. Its slow spread in the 

 vicinity of New York City, 251. Has appeared in Central New York, 

 25 ! . Its life-history, 251 , 252. Remedies are, hand-picking, employing 

 fowls to hunt them, and cutting the seed stems of asparagus, 252. 

 The best remedy believed to be application of freshly-slacked lime, 



252. Mr. Fuller's success with the lime remedy, 253. Complaints of 

 the Grapevine "Thrips," 253. Thrips an incorrect name for the 

 insect, 253. Is one of the leaf -hoppers, — its features and operations, 



253. How the foliage is affected, 253. Its allies in the Hemiptera, 254. 

 Several species occur on grapevines, which belong to Erythroneur a, 



254. The more common one is Typhloeyba vitis, 254. Its description, 

 habits, and transformations, 254. What the "thrips" proper is, 254. 

 Where placed in classification, 254. Doubts regarding its true place, 255. 

 Habits of the Thripidse, 255. Some species serviceable, 255. Fumi- 

 gation for the leaf -hoppers partially successful, 255. Vaporization of 

 extract of tobacco the best remedy, 255. How it has been employed 

 in France, 255. The grapevine leaf -hopper more abundant in graperies 

 than elsewhere, 256. Occasionally injurious in vineyards, 256. Remedies 

 for it in vineyards, 256. The Rose-leaf " Thrips" that destroys the 

 leafage of roses, 256. Allied to the preceding and known as Empoa 

 r08Ce t 256. Its similar life-history, 257. May be killed by spraying 



