CONTENTS. 



Introduction 7 



Insects Injukiodb to Gabden Vegetables. 



Asparagus 15 



Bean 19 



Cabbige 21 



Eape-butterfly 23 



Pot-herb Butterfly 24 



Soutliern Cabbage-butterfly. 27 



Cabbage-Plusia 29 



Zebra Caterpillar 31 



A New Cabbase-worm 33 



The Wavy-striped Flea-bee- 

 tle 35 



The Harlequin Cabbage-bug.37 



Cucumber 43 



Striped Cucumber-beetle. ..42 



Cucumber. 



The Pickle-worm 45 



Melon — The Melon-worm 48 



Onion .52 



The Black Onion-fly 52 



Imported Onion-fly 53 



Parsley and Related Plants 55 



Pea 56 



Radish 61 



Squash and Pumpkin 61 



Tbe Squash-bug 61 



The 12-spotted Squash-bee- 

 tle 63 



Tomato 65 



Ikseots Injurious to Root Crops and Indian Corn. 



Indian Corn 67 



The Corn-worm 68 



Seed-corn Maggot 72 



The White Grub 73 



Cut-worms 78 



Wire-worms 81 



" " False 82 



The Potato 83 



The Sta'k-borer 83 



The Stalk-weevil 85 



The Potato-worm 86 



The Striped Blister-beetle. . .89 

 The Ash-gray Blister-beetle. 90 

 The Black -rat and Black 

 Blister-beetles 91 



The Potato. 



The Margined Blister-beetle 92 

 The Three-lined Leaf-bee- 

 tle 93 



The Colorado Potato-beetle 94 



Sweet Potato ' 103 



Tortoise-beetles 102 



The Two-striped Sweet-po- 

 tato Beetle 105 



The Golden Tortoise-beetle.106 

 The Pale-thighed Tortoise- 

 beetle 108 



The Black-legged Tortoise- 

 beetle 109 



Turnip and Ruta-Baga 110 



Insects Injurious to Cerkal Grains and the Grass Crops, in- 

 OLUDiNa Clover. 



Grains— The Chinch-bug 113 



False Chinch-bugs 1 17 



The Hessian Fly 120 



The Wheat-Midge 133 



The Joint-worm 134 



Army Worms 139 



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Grains — Northern Army Worm. 130 

 Wheat-head Army Worm. .134 



Clover 135 



Clover-seed Midge 135 



Clover Root-borer 136 



The Clover- worm 137 



