Fk.jith Report of the State Entomologist. % j^5 



without their usual spots, probably as the result of their larvae having fed on 

 the black aphides. Other food of the insect ie mentioned. A number <>i 

 larv;r of Syrphus flies were also feeding on the aphides. 



Beet Insects. (Country Gentleman, for July L6, L891, Ivi, p. 577, 



c. 4 — 30 cm. i 



The serious injury to beets reported from Monroe Co., N. Y.. so far as 



can be seen from plants sent, are not chargeable on any one insect. The 

 plants show injury from a plant-bug — perhaps Lygus pratensis : from 

 apparently some species of tiea-beetles: and from some leaf-miner, which is 

 probably a species of Anthomyia. Remedy for the above may be found in 

 the use early and at the proper time, of kerosene emulsion. Reference to 8 

 valuable paper on Beet Insects. 

 [In MS. of Ninth Report. 1 



Apple Aphis. (Country Gentleman, for July 16, 1891, lvi, p. 578, 

 c. 1, 2 — 11 cm.) 



A severe attack of Aphis malt Fabr., recognized on apple-twigs received 

 from Sargeantville, N. J. The injury will probably soon cease, as the insect 

 will resort ere long to some other food-plant. Effective remedies for 

 early in the season, are tobacco-water, soap solution, and kerosene emulsion. 



The Pear Tree Psylla, (Country Gentleman, for August 6, 1891, 

 lvi, p. 637, c. 2, 3 — 41 cm.) 



When and where Psylla pyricola was first observed in New York : new 

 feature in its life-history : known formerly as Psylla pyri : notice of injuries 

 from it : its present distribution in the State : the honey-dew excreted : the 

 pupa? and pupal cases : the insect may be destroyed in its different stages, 

 by kerosene emulsion spraying : flight of the winged insects. 



Insects Injuring Red Raspberries. (Rural New Yorker, for 

 August 8, 1891, 1, p. 577, c. 3 — 13 cm.) 



Caterpillar found on red raspberry(at New Haven, Conn., is Synchlora rubi- 

 voraria (Riley). Its peculiar appearance is described and habit given of 

 covering itself with bits of the blossoms for concealment. Its transforma- 

 tions, and the moth produced. 



[Extended in this Report (viii), pages 120-133, as Synchlora glaucaria.] 



Pine Beetle Injuring Linen. (Country Gentleman, for August 27, 

 1891, lvi, p. 700, c. 1 — 20 cm.) 



Inquiry is made from Freyburg, Me., of an insect that had burrowed the 

 pine shelving of a linen closet built the preceding year, riddling the boards 

 with small round holes and extending upward through piles of linen on the 

 shelves. 



The insect, doubtless a burrowing beetle, can not be named from the brief 

 account of its operations, unaccompanied with specimens of the insect. [It 

 may be one of the Ptinidce. the larva* of which are small, and often with 

 wood-boring habits.] 



