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dam infestation, 417. The beetle figured, 417. Its abundance within doors and upon 

 shrubbery, 417. Annual reappearances at Potsdam, 418. Little recorded of its life- 

 history, 418. Operations of the larvae in girdling the crowns of strawberry plants, 418. 

 The mature insect somewhat of a general feeder, 418. The insect discovered operating 

 in cabbages in Oswego county, N. Y., 418. Dr. Dimon's observations upon it as a 

 destructive cabbage pest, 418. A field of nearly a thousand heals of cabbages 

 destroyed by it, 418. When and how the attack commences, 418. The beetles feed on 

 the leaves and cause a rot, 418. Fifty beetles taken from beneath one leaf, 418. Later, 

 the larvae are found working in the stalks, 418. Where the eggs are deposited, 419. 

 The Otiorhynchidee larvae are root-inhabiting, 419. Two European species that occur 

 in this country, 419. O. ovatus very abundant in the State of New York, while 

 O. sulcatus is rarely found, 419. 



Conotrachelus cratjegi, the Quince Curculio 419 



Reference to original description, 419. An orchard in Geneva, N. Y., badly infested, 



419. Arsenical spraying not effective against it, 419. The attack had been continued 

 for years, 419. A local insect, 419. Destructive in New Jersey, 419. Every quince in 

 an orchard affected, 420. Several varieties of pears infested, 420. The insect not 

 known to Dr. Fitch, 420. First discovered abundantly on wild haws in the Western 

 States, 420. An extended account of the insect in Riley's Third Missouri Report, 420. 

 Its limited literature, 420. 



The Seventeen- Year Locust in the State op New York in 1894 420 



The " Hudson river valley brood " of this insect, 420. Its former appearance in 1877, 



420. Reappeared in May of this year, 420. Time of its continuance, 420. The largest 

 and most extended in range of the New York broods, 420 The unusual interest attach- 

 ing to this return from the above-ground structures built by the pupae, 420. The num- 

 ber of these buildings, 420. Their exceptional occurrence, 420. Their cause and pur- 

 pose an enigma, 420. Observations at future returns needed for its solution, 420. A 

 circular asking for information of places of appearance and othermatters prepared and 

 distributed by the Entomologist, 42D. The remarkable life-period of the insect, 421. 

 Doubted by many, yet an ascertained fact, 421. Its occurrence in many localities at 

 shorter intervals than 17 years, 421. Explained by there being a number of distinct 

 broods, 421. Six occur in the State of New York, 421. Each one true to its appointed 

 time, 421. The limits of the present brood as indicated by Dr. Fitch, 421. Embraces 

 the Hudson river valley and extends into Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 



421. A map showing its precise distr.bution in New York, desirable, 421. Purposes to 

 be served by such a map, 421. Figures of the insect in its several stages, 422. The 

 pupa and its transformation to the winged insect, 422. Representation of twigs bored 

 for the reception of the eggs, 422. The usual emergence of the pupa through a round 

 opening in the ground, 423. The pupal above ground buildings discovered at New- 

 Baltimore, N. Y., 423. Their abundance; in some places twenty-five to a square foot, 

 423. Their character and appearance, 423. Figures Illustrating them, 425. Only two 



