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Trypetidce, Grapta Faunus, G.j-aJbum, Feniseca Tar qui nil is, and Agrilus 

 torpidus ; remarks upon Agrotis clandestina and Simidium molestum; 

 notice of the operations of Orgyia leucostigma in girdling elm twigs, and 

 causing them to drop ; the English sparrow promoting insect injury ; an 

 extended notice of the appearance of the chinch-bug, Blissus leucopterus, 

 in northern New York, with recommendations made, and distributed 

 in a circular, for the arrest of its ravages. 



The Apple-leaf Bucculatrix. (The Husbandman, Elniira, N. Y., for 

 December 3, 1884, xi, No. 537, p. 1, c. 5 — 31 cm.) 



Apple twigs received from Malcolm, Seneca county, N. Y., are covered 

 with the cocoons of Bucculatrix pomifoliella. The cocoon is described 

 and life-history of the species given. The remedies mentioned are spray- 

 ing, or scouring with a stiff brush the infested branches with a kerosene 

 and soap emulsion, of which the formula is given, for killing the insect 

 within the cocoon; Paris green in water for poisoning the caterpillars, 

 and jarring the caterpillars from the trees and burning them in the 

 months of July and September. 



[Extended, in the present Report, pp. 260-262.] 



On some Rio Grande Lepidoptera. (Papilio, iv, Nos. 7-8, September- 

 October, 1884, pp. 135-147.) [Published February, 1885.] 



Gives an annotated list of collections made by Messrs. Sennett and 

 Webster, in 1877 and 1878, viz. : In Rhopalocera, fifty-two species 

 (Krieogonia Lanice and Apatura Codes, being new species) ; in Sphingidre, 

 four species (Sphinx insolita n. sp.) ; in JEgeriadag, two species ; in Bomby- 

 cidee, three species (Ecpantheria Sennettii n. sp.). 



Scale-Insect Attack on Ivy. (Country Gentleman, for February 26, 

 1885, 1, p. 169, c. 2 — 22 cm.) 



Ivy leaves (Hedera helix) received from Watervliet, N. Y., and infested 

 on both surfaces and the stem also by Aspidiotus nerii Bouche — a scale- 

 insect which infests the ckerry, plum, currant, maple, oleander, etc., 

 throughout most of the United States. Remedies recommended under 

 different conditions are scraping, a soap solution, and a soap and kero- 

 sene emulsion made in accordance with the formula given. 



[Printed, also, in this Report, see pp. 278, 279.] 



The Owl Beetle — Alaus Oculatus. (Country Gentleman, for April 9, 

 1885, 1, p. 307, c. 4 — 14 cm.) 



The beetle received alive in May, from Aiken, S. C. is described and 

 its habits given. Proves upon later examination to be Alaus myops 

 (Fabr.). 



Remedies for the White Grub. (The New England Homestead, for 

 May 16, 1885, xix, p. 205, c. 2 — 28 cm.) 



The remedies usually recommended for the beetle, insufficient ; the 

 grubs may be destroyed by starvation ; crops of buckwheat and mustard 

 repel the grabs ; how and when salt may be used with benefit. 



