REPORT OF STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 1899 



591 



Trypeta canadensis 

 Loew, the gooseberry fruit ily. 160 



Notolophus leucostigma 

 Abb. & Sm. the white-marked 

 tussock moth 163 



Clisiocampa americana 

 Fabr. the apple tree tent cater- 

 pillar 177 



Clisiocampa disstria 

 Hiibn. the forest tent cater- 

 pillar 191 



Mamestra picta Harr. the 

 zebra caterpillar 201 



Xylina antennata Walker 207 



Lecanium tnlipiferae 

 Cook, the tulip tree scale 213 



Lepisma dom es t ic a Pack. 

 [Thermobia furnorum 

 Prov.], bristle tail : fish moth. 216 



Eurypelma hentzii Gi- 

 rard,the moltingof a tarantula 219 



PACK 



Hints about insecticides 221 



How insects feed 221 



Operation of contact insecti- 

 cides 222 



Useless remedies 223 



Preventives 223 



Need of experiment 223 



Arsenical compounds 224 



Internal and contact insecticides 



combined 226 



Coutact insecticides 226 



Fumigation 228 



Some insects of the year in New 

 York state 231 



List of publications of the ento- 

 mologist 243 



Contributions to the collection in 

 1898 255 



Explanation of plates 264 



Index 265 



Circular to those interested in entomology. (Issued 6 Feb. 1899. Re- 

 published in Argus [Albany] 12 Feb. 1899) 



Invites the public to cooperate with the department in the observation of 

 insects. 



Squash, melon and cucumber bugs. (Country gentleman, 16 Feb. 1899, 

 64: 128 12 ) 



A brief general account treating of the following insects: Squash bug, 

 Anasa tristis DeGeer; squash vine borer, Melittia satyrin- 

 i f o r m i s Hiibn. (syn. M. cucurbitae Harr.) ; pickle and melon worms, 

 Margaronia nitidalis Cram, and M. hyalinata Linn.; striped 

 cucumber beetle, Diabrotica vittata Fabr. ; northern lady bird, 

 Epilachna bore a lis Fabr.; cucumber flea beetle, Epitrix cucum- 

 eris Harr. and the melon plant louse, Aphis gossypii Glover. 



Arsenical poisons. (Country gentleman, 16 Feb. 1899, 64: 128 27 ) 



Discusses several arsenical compounds and recommends the use of arsenate 

 of lead. 



13th report on the injurious and other insects of the state of New York 

 for 1897, by J. A. Lintner. Albany, University of the State of New 

 York, 1898 [issued 18 Feb. 1899] 64P., 2 pi. Also as Report of the 

 state entomologist for 1897 (New York state museum 51st report for 

 1897) 



