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El ley: iii Bull. 12 Div. Entoirol.— U. S. Dept. Agr., 1886, p. 41, pi. 1, fig. 5 



(injuring apples in Utah; remedies). 

 Lintner: in Count. Gent., Hi, 1887, p. 69 (description, habits, remedies; brief); 



4thRept. Ins. N. Y., 1888, pp. 156-158, fig. 64 (description, food 



habits, distribution, etc.), p. 193 (abstract of notice); in Count. 



Gent., lix, 1894,"p. 699 (in Iowa, and remarks on), p. 841 (in N. 



Dakota); in id., lx, 1895, p. 786 (in Eastern Iowa). 

 Bruner: in Nebraska Farmer, Nov. 8, 1888 (brief notice; the same, in Bull. 



5 Nebr. Agr. Expt. Sta., 1889, pp. 36-37, fig. 19); Bull. 14 do., 



1890, pp. 126-130, figs. 87, 88, (habits, description from Popenoe, 



enemies) . 



Gillette: in Prairie Farmer, lxi, 1889, p. 833 (in So. Dakota; brief notice). 



Riley -Howard: in Insect Life, i, 1889, p. 325 (in Utah and Nebr.); in do., iii, 

 1890, p. 72-73 (on box-elder in Kans.); in do., iv, 1892, p. 273 (inju- 

 rious to fruits in the Stale of Washington); in do., vi, 1894, p. 328 

 (in houses in Wash. State). 



Kellogg: Com. Inj. Ins. Kans., 1892, pp. 99, 100 (life-history, description, 

 habits, Kansas notes). 



Weed: Insects and Insecticides, 1891, pp. 145-147, fig. 78 (food-plants, habits, 

 remedies) . 



Osborn: in Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., i, 1892, p. 122 (in list of Iowa Hemiptera, 

 as Leptocorisa). 



Fletcher: in Naturaliste Canadian, xxi, 1894, p. 192 (common in Manitoba 



and the Northwest). 

 Gillette-Baker: Bull. 31 Col. Agr. Expt. Stat., 1895, p. 21 (localities, etc.). 

 Cockerell: Bull. 15 New Mex. Agr. Expt. Stat., Jan., 1895, p. 75 (in the 



Middle Valley of New Mexico) . 

 Lugger: 1st Rept. Entomol. Minn. Agr. Expt. St., 1896, pp. 108-111, pi. 13 



(habits, etc. , as Leptocorisa trivittata). 



Although this insect is not a member of the insect fauna of the State 

 of New York — if we may judge from the progress that it is making 

 in this direction, steadily, although not as rapidly as that of another 

 southern allied form, Murgantia histrionica — not many years will 

 elapse before its unwelcome presence will be announced in the Middle 

 and Eastern States. 



Its Northward Spread. 

 At the time of the notice of this insect in my 4th Report above 

 cited, it had not been recorded north of Missouri. In 1891 it was 

 reported from the State of Washington, in Columbia and Garfield 

 counties, in the southeastern corner of the State, near Idaho, in latitude 

 46°, where it had appeared the preceding year, and was now destroy- 

 ing large quantities of plums, peaches, apples, and some grapes. The 

 same year Prof. Osborn catalogued it among the Hemiptera of Iowa, 

 as common in the western part of the State. Soon thereafter it had 

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