CONTENTS. 



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TKANSMITTAL 151 



REMEDIES AND PREVENTIVES OF ^SECT ATTACK : 



Cutting out the Squash- Vine Borer 155 



Change of Soil for Strawberry Plants 156 



Brine for the Currant-worm 156 



Saltpetre not a Preventive of Cabbage-fly Attack 157 



Preventives of 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 Erichsonii Hartig — The Larch Saw-Fly 164 



Nematus salicis-pomum Walsh — The Willow-apple Gall Saw-fly.. 173 



INJURIOUS LEPIDOPTERA: 



Darapsa Myron (Cramer)— The Green Grapevine Sphinx 174 



Alypia octomaculata (Fabr.) and Eudryas grata (Fabr.) — The Eight- 

 spotted Forester and the Beautiful Woodnymph 179 



Phobetron pithecium (Sm.-Abb.)— The Hag-Moth Caterpillar 183 



Anisota senatoria {Sm.-Abb.)— The Senatorial Oak Moth 192 



Agrotis saucia (Hilbner) —The Variegated Cut- worm 200 



Mamestra picta Harris —The Zebra Cabbage Caterpillar 206 



Mamestra grandis (Boisduval) —A Poplar-feeding Cut-worm 210 



Penthina nimbatana (Clemens)— The Rose-leaf Tyer 213 



Incurvaria acerif oliella (Fitch) —The Maple-leaf Cutter 215 



JURIOUS DIPTERA : 



Hasmatobia (Lyperosia) serrata Bob. Desv— The Cow-horn Fly ... 220 



