BEPOKT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 



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The Angoumois-Moth, Sitotroga cerealella. (Country Gentleman, 

 for March 9, 1893, lviii, pp. 188-9, cols. 4, 1, 2 — 68 cm.) 



Replying to inquiry of the insect infesting wheat in York county, Penn., 

 is given : its operations in Europe; its history in the United States; is 

 a southern species, and rare in the State of New York; notice of the few 

 occasions in which it has been observed in this State, in museums at Albany 

 and Geneva, and in grain stores — probably not attacking grain in the field; 

 a Catolaccus parasite reared from infested corn; number of broods varying 

 with the latitude and temperature, from two to eight; broods in Pennsyl- 

 vania; the grain heated by the gnawing of the larvae; the flour produced 

 from infested wheat unwholesome and producing disease; bisulphide of car- 

 bon remdy for the insect when within the grain. 



[Extended in pp. 377-386, of this Report (x).] 



Keport of the Committee on Entomology. (Proceedings of the 

 Western New York Horticultural Society, for January, 1893, 

 pp. 28-43. Also, separate, with cover and title, March 21, 

 1893, 16 pp.) Head before the society at its annual meeting, 

 January 26, 1893. 



Notices as follows: Remarkable exemption from insect injuries during the 

 year. Various pests of the year (twelve species remarked upon). The Gypsy- 

 moth. Ocneria dispar, in Massachusetts — work done for its extermination. 

 A destructive shade-tree pest, Zeuzera pyrina — its spread and injuries. An 

 elm-tree bark-borer, Saperda tridentata — its work and remedies for it. 

 Experiment Station publications — insects attacks discovered by them — ten 

 noted. Spraying and insecticides — results during the year and new 

 insecticides introduced. Bounties for insect pests — offered in Newton, 

 Mass., and what may be done in like manner elsewhere. 



[Published in the Ninth Report on the Insects of New York, 1893, pp. 

 422-437.] 



The Periodical Cicada. (Country Gentleman, for March 23, 1893, 

 lviii, p. 226, col. 3 — 20 cm.) 



Replying to inquiries from Plainfield, N. J.— This will not be a locust year 

 in New Jersey or in New York. Next year an extensive brood will appear 

 along the Hudson river valley, and in parts of Connecticut, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. It probably will not be abundant in 

 the vicinity of Plainfield, N. J. Fruit-trees are often injured by it, nurseries 

 and young orchards especially. Its injuries through oviposition cannot 

 be prevented by applications to the trees. It may be more easily killed before 

 it becomes winged; and the mature insect may be driven from orchards by 

 taking advantage of high winds. 



