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Report of the State Entomologist. 



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Apple Insects and the Rhinoceros-beetle. (Country Gentleman, for 

 July 30, 1885, 1, p. 623, c. 2-3 — 25 cm.) 



Of apple insects sent from Coffee, Ya., one is Orgijia leucostigma, 

 and the other had spun up in a cocoon [subsequently emerged and 

 proved to be Acronyctasp.]. The information sent of the Dynastes Tityus, 

 that the beetle comes from the ground among the ash trees where its 

 larva had probably been feeding on living vegetable matter, is a new 

 and interesting fact. The record of the manner in which the beetles eat 

 the bark of the ash is also interesting, as also the mention of their 

 being very destructive to tobacco plants, killing all that they attack. 



[See page 230 of this Report.] 



Another Potato Pest. (New England Homestead, for August 8, 1885, 

 xix, No. 32, p. 309, c. 3.) 



Macrobasis unicolor (Kirby), one of the blister-beetles, identified as the 

 insect injurious to the foliage of potatoes, in Furnace, Mass. Beating 

 the insects into a basin of water and kerosene, or if very abundant, 

 sprinkling with Paris green or London purple in water, is recommended. 



Rcestelia aurantiaca. (Country Gentleman, for August 13, 1885, 1, p. 

 661, c. 3-4 — 10 cm.) 



Determination of the above fungus occurring on quinces received from 

 Charlton, Mass. It has usually been found associated with insect attack, 

 as in this instance, where the fruit has been burrowed by probably the 

 apple-worm of the codling-moth. 



The False Chinch Bug. (Country Gentleman, for August 13, 1885, 

 1, p. 661, c. 4— 26 cm.) 



Insect described (but no examples sent) and reported as injurious to 

 radishes, turnips, horseradish, strawberries, and raspberries, in Boulder, 

 Col., are, without much doubt, the Nysius angustatus of Uhler. It had 

 not previously been known to injure ripe strawberries, but had, accord- 

 ing to observations of Professor Forbes, been quite injurious to the 

 foliage of strawberries in Illinois. Kerosene emulsion or pyrethrum 

 could be used to destroy the bug when upon strawberries, until the fruit 

 is about half grown. 



The Bag-Worm — Thyridopteryx Ephemerseformis. (Country Gentle- 

 man, for October 1, 1885, 1, p. 801, c. 4—20 cm.) 



To an interesting account of the habits of a "worm " destroying arbor 

 vitee hedges in Franklin Park, N. J., and request for information in 

 regard to it, reply is made of its name as above, and the best methods for 

 checking its injuries, viz., application of Paris green, and hand-picking, 

 and destroying the cases of the female moth. A figure illustrating the 

 several stages of the insect is also given. 



The Red Spider — Tetranychus Telarius (Linn.). (Country Gentle- 

 man, for October 8, 1885, 1, p. 821, c. 3-4 — 38 cm.) 



Mites infesting various garden plants, at Utica, N. Y., are this species 

 which, standing at the head of the Acarina, approaches near to the 

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