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in captivity, 429. The natural enemies of aphides, viz., lady-bugs and their larvae, and 

 the larvae of the lacs-winged flies (Chrysopa), 429. Spiders feeding on small Hemiptera, 



430. An Attid spider in New Mexico feeding on Typhlocyba sp.? 430. What the Attldae 

 are, 430. What the Typhlocibina are, 430. 



PtNTATOMA jcniperina, the Juniper Plant-bug 430 



Bibliography, 43). Injures peaches in Brockport, N. Y., 430. What the insect is, 431. 

 Description and figure, 431. Its occurrence in Europe, 431. Its American distribution, 



431. Feeds also on willows and other trees, 431. Sometimes confounded with Lioderma 

 ligata, 432. The family both phytophagous and carnivorous, 432. Means for its destruc- 

 tion when injuriously abundant, 432. 



Leptocoris trivittatos, the Box-elder Plant-bug 432 



Bibliography, 432, 433. Not a New York insect, 433. Will probably reach the Eastern 

 States ere long, 433. Has reached N. Lat. 46° in the State of Washington, 433. Its 

 injuries there, 433. Common in western Iowa in 1891, 433. Its remarkable abundance 

 in Shenandoah, la., as narrated, 434. Description and figure, 434. Is cannibalistic at 

 times, 434 Inflicts wounds under provocatiju, 434. Crawls into beds and " bites sharply," 

 435. The proboscis of the insect, 435. Its abundance in North Dakota, 435. Gatherings 

 of the bugs in patches of many feet in diameter, 435. Written of as " North Dakota's 

 New Bug," 435. Hangs in clusters from limbs of trees, 436. The food supply of such 

 myriads a problem, 435. Its popular name drawn from the tree on which it is commonly 

 found, 436. In its eastward progress reaches the Mississippi river in 1835, 436. Has 

 probably entered Wisconsin and Illinois, 436. Its present known distribution, 436. 

 Extends from Mexico to Manitoba, 436, 437. Its eastern spread may be co-extensive with 

 the distribution of the box-elder, 437. A common tree of the North American forest, 437. 

 Its distribution as given by Sargent in " Silva of North America," 437. From DJinois the 

 insect would readily b 3 distributed over the basin of the Ohio river, 437. Area of this 

 basin, 437. In it the bDx-elder (Negundo aceroides) finds its best conditions for growth 

 and multiplication, 437. Prediction that the insect will reach this region within 

 five years, 437. Hops expressed that eastern fruit-growers may long be spared from 

 this pest, 437. Habits of the insect as given by Prof. Popenoe, 438. Its hibernation ; 

 oviposition; gregarious tendency; gathering on trees; entrance into houses; various 

 food-plants, 433. Remsdies: kerosene or hot wa*;er, 439. 



The Grasshopper Plaque in Western New York 439 



The grasshopper ravages of 1893 continued in 1894, 439. Eastern United States 

 exempt from the " Rocky Mountain locust," 439. Losses from it in four Western 

 8tates. 439. Will probably not occur east of the Mississippi river, 439. Reasons for this 

 belief, 439. No strictly migratory eastern species, 439. Melanoplus femur-rubrum 

 and M. atlanis the two most common species in the east, 439. Tne latter may migrate 



