31t> Forty-second Report on the State Museum. [174] 



A Stinging Bug — Melanolestes Picipes (H. S.). (Country Gentleman, 

 for October 23, 1884, xlix, p. 877, c. 2-3 — 40 cm.) 



An insect reported as inflicting a painful sting upon a lady in Natchez, 

 Miss., is Melanolestes picipes, or the " Black Corsair." It is distributed 

 over the United States, and has been previously noticed for the serious 

 wounds it inflicts. Other Hemiptera of the Reduviidce having similar 

 stinging habits, are the Conorhinus sanguisuga LeConte, Melanolestes 

 dbdominalis (H.-S.), Reduvius personalis (Linn.), and Frionotus cristatus 

 (Linn.). The above are briefly noticed in their habits and painful 

 wounds. 



[Extended, in the Fourth Report on the Insects of New York, 1888, pp. 

 109-114.] 



An Attack on the Apple Worm — A Friend, Not a Foe. (Country 

 Gentleman, for October 30, 1884, xlix, p. 897, c. 2-4 — 52 cm.) 



A larva sent from Crozet, Va., as injurious to apples, from eating large 

 holes into their sides and causing rot, proves to be Chauliognathus mar- 

 ginatus (Fabr.). It is not injurious, but enters apples through holes 

 already made, to feed upon the apple-worm — the larva of Carpocapsa 

 pomonella. The larva and beetle are described, the latter by compari- 

 son with Ch, Pennsylvanicus. The holes in quinces, thought to have 

 been made by the same larva, are probably those of the quince curculio, 

 Conotrachelus cratcegi, in leaving the fruit. 



[Extended, in the Fourth Report on the Insects of New York, 1888, pp. 

 84-88.] 



Clover Insects: (Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, 

 xxxiii, 1877-1882, [October], 1884, pp. 206-207.) 



In the republication of the paper on " The Insects of the Clover Plant," 

 from the annual report of the society for the year 1880, a list of the 

 names with reference to authorities of twenty-four species is given, as 

 an addition to the forty-six previously recorded, making the number 

 now known seventy. Mention is made of the list of apple insects (addi- 

 tions in MS.) being extended to one hundred and eighty. 



The White Grub. (The New England Homestead, for November 8, 

 1884, xviii, p. 393, c. 1-3 — 80 cm.) 



Treats of the insect under the following heads : The grub ; the beetle ; 

 its distribution; its food-plants; injuries by the beetle; life-history; its 

 enemies; preventives and remedies. Under the latter head salt is 

 recommended as an experiment, while starvation is pronounced 

 infallible. 



Report of the State Entomologist to the Regents of the University of 

 the State of New York, for the year 1883. (Thirty-seventh Annual 

 Report on the New York State Museum of Natural History, by the 

 Regents of the University of the State of New York, [November], 

 1884, pp. 45-60.) 



Reports upon the collections made during the year and other work of 

 the entomologist. Among insects of special interest collected are some 



