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Operations against the Gypsv Moth in Massachusetts 369 



Its introduction and danger of invading other States, 370. The large appropriations 

 made by the State Legislature for its extermination, 370. Visit made to the infested 

 district for examining the work of the gypsy-moth committee toward extermination, 

 370. Facilities afforded for the examination, 370. The excellent work that had been 

 done, 370. The means by which It had been accomplished, 371. Nothing found to 

 criticize in the work as conducted, 371 . Suggestion made of the publication of a volume 

 upon the moth, and the methods employed for its extermination, 371. The cultivation 

 and utilization of the parasites of the moth recommended, 371. Plan for their artificial 

 rearing outlined, 371. Desirability and importance of continued appropriations by the 

 State Legislature, 371. Extermination at a cost of a million dollars would be a wise 

 economy, 372. Loss inflicted by the wheat-midge in New York in 1854, 372. 



Gorttna immanis, the Hopvine Grub 372 



Ravages of the grub in Schoharie county „N. Y., 372. Operations of the grub, 372. 

 Study of the insect made by Prof. J. B. Smith, 372. The value of skunks in destroying 

 the grubs, 373. How the pupae may be found in the ground, 373. Destroying the young 

 grubs while tipworms, 373. Exposure of the roots in June, 373. 



Gorttna cataphracta, as a Raspberry cane borer 373 



Infesting raspberry canes at Menands, N. Y., 374. The caterpillar described, 374. 

 Its rare occurrence in the raspberry, 374. Bred from lilies, burdock, and various kinds 

 of plants, 374. Detailed description of the caterpillar by Mr. Fletcher, 374. Other de- 

 scriptions by Mr. Beutenmuller and by Mr. Pyar, 375. Limited literature of the species, 



376. Its distribution not known to be extensive, 376. 



Collections in the Adirondack Mountains in 1893 376 



Mainly made in Keene Valley, 376. Abundance of Lepidoptera, 376. Large number 

 of Plusias collected, 376. List of the principal Plusias taken, 376. Compared with col- 

 lections of Mr. Hill in Lewis county, N. Y., 376. List of the more common Noctuidae, 



377. Scarcity of Syrphidae, Bombylidae, and Neurcptera, 377. Abundance of Cicindela 

 repanda, 377. 



8itotroga cerealella, the Grain-Moth 377 



Bibliography additional to that contained in the Second Report, 377, 378. Abundance 

 of the moth and injuries of the insect, as reported in Montgomery county, Pa., in No- 

 vember, 378. Figures of the insect, and its ravages in Angoumois, France, in 1760, 379. 

 When first noticed in the United States, 379. Its subsequent distribution, 380. Less 

 destructive in its northern extension, 380. Seldom appears in New York, 380. Its 

 operations at the N. Y. Agricultural Experiment Station, 380. Habits of the insect, 

 380. New York infestations probably introduced, 380. A strong parasitic attack on 

 stored corn in Albany, 381. The parasite an undescribed species of Catolaccus, 381. 

 Destroyed by burning sulphur before their character was known, 381 . The number of 



