362 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Sth report on the injurious and other insects of the state of New York. 

 Albany, the Troy press company, printers, 1889. [Issued Nov. 23, 

 1889] 205 p., 50 fig. Also as report of the state entomologist to the 

 regents of the University of the State of New York, for the year 1888. 

 (State museum of natural history. 42d annual report of the trustees, for 

 the year 1888 [Nov. 20, 1889]. p. 145-347, fig. 1-50) 



Contents pagb 



Transmittal 151 



Remedies and preventives of insect attack 



Cutting out the squash vine horer 155 



Change of soil for strawberry plants 156 



Brine for the currant worm 156 



Saltpetre not a preventive of cabbage fly attack 157 



Preventives for cabbage fly attack 158 



Beans for repelling the striped cucumber beetle.. 159 



Gas lime for the woolly aphis 160 



How to kill the apple tree aphis 160 



Tobacco dust for aphis attack 162 



A lime wash for bark lice 163 



Injurious Hymenoptera 

 Nematus [Lygaeonematus] erichsonii Hartig, larch saw fly 164 



Nematus salicis-pomum Walsh [ Pontania pomumj, willow apple gall saw fly 173 



Injurious Lepidoptera 



Darapsa lAmpelopJiagd] myron Cramer, green grape vine sphinx 174 



Alypia octomaeulata Pabr. and Eudryas [Eutkiaanotia] grata Pabr., eight 



spotted forester and beautiful wood nymph 179 



Phoietron pitheoium Sm.-Abb., hag moth caterpillar 183 



Aniaota senatoria Sm-Abh., senatorial oak moth 192 



Agrotia [Peridroma'] saucia Hiibn., variegated cut worm '. 200 



Mameatra piota Harris, zebra cabbage caterpillar 206 



Mameatra grandis Boisd. , poplar feeding out worm 210 



PentTiina nimbatana Clemens, rose leaf tyer 213 



Inourvaria acerifoUella Pitch, maple leaf cutter 215 



Injurious Diptera 

 MaematoMa serrata Rob.-Desv., cow horn fly 220 



Injurious Coleoptera 



Dynaatea tityus Linn., spotted horn bug 227 



Oherea himaaulata Oliv., raspberry cane girdler 231 



Galeruoa xanthomelaena Sohrank [Galerucella luteolaMiiW .'] , elm leaf beetle 234 



Injurious Hemiptera 



Claatoptera obtusa Say, alder spittle insect 242 



Siphonophora avenue Pabr. ^^Neatarophora granaria Kirby], grain aphis 246 



Myzua ceraai Fabr., cherry aphis 253 



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