BKPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 



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result, hardly a living locust could be found a day or two thereafter, 

 while the ground was literally covered with their dead bodies. 



To those who have been sufferers from the locusts in New York this 

 year — in the event of a prospect of a recurrence of the visitation 

 another season — it would be well if they write to the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, asking to be furnished, if possible, with 

 Bulletin 25 of the Division of Entomology, entitled, " Destructive 

 Locusts," by C. V. Riley, Ph. D. Its more complete title is: "A Pop- 

 ular Consideration of a Few of the More Injurious Locusts (or 1 Grass- 

 hoppers ') of the United States, together with the Best Means of 

 Destroying Them." Several of the facts embodied in the above com- 

 munication have been taken from this publication. 



Julus caeruleocinctus Wood. 

 With Associated Potato-Scab. 

 p (Class Myriopoda: Ord. Cuiloonatha: Fam. Julid^.) 



From being nearly allied to insects and at times similarly destructive 

 to important crops, the millepeds, or " thousand-legged worms," and 

 their operations are frequently brought to the notice of the ento- 

 mologist. 



Boring into Potato Stems. 

 Mr. D. J. Garth, of Scarsdale, Westchester county, N. Y., has sent 

 a potato plant dug on June 3d, in which most of the stems had been 

 eaten by Julus ca-ruleocinctus from the surface of the ground down- 

 ward six inches to the seed tuber, burrowing into which were a num- 

 ber of this milleped. 



Fig. 20. -Thousand-lepgred ■worm, Julus caeru- 

 leocinctus Wood. 



A similar attack is published in the Rural N~ew Yorker for June 22, 

 1889 (page 416), where the stems were found fallen over and either 

 dead, wilted, or wilting. Investigation showed that a thousand legsred 

 worm was the cause. "In some instances the vine was girdled; in 

 others from one to four of these millepeds were found eating into the 

 stems; in others they had bored into and up the stem. The vines at 



