CONTENTS. 



Introduction 7 



Insects Injurious to Garden Vegetables. 



Asparagus 15 



Bean 19 



Cabbage 21 



Rape-butterfly 22 



Pot-herb Butterfly 24 



Southern Cabbage-butterfly .27 



Cabbage-Plusia 29 



Zebra Caterpillar 31 



A New Cabba£:e-\vorm 33 



The Wavy-striped Flea-bee- 

 tle 35 



The Harlequin Cabbage-bug.37 



Cucumber 42 



(Striped Cucumber-beetle. . .42 



Cucumber. 



The Pickle-worm 45 



Melon — The Melon-worm 48 



Onion 52 



The Black Onion-fly 52 



Imported Onion-fly., 53 



Parsley and Related Plants 55 



Pea 56 



Radish 61 



Squash and Pumpkin 61 



The Squash-bug 61 



The 12-spotted Squash-bee- 

 tle 63 



Tomato 65 



Insects Injurious to Root Crops and Indian Corn. 



Indian Corn 67 



The Corn-worm 68 



Seed-corn Maggot 72 



The White Grub 73 



Cut-worms 78 



Wire-worms 81 



" False 82 



The Potato 83 



The Stalk-borer 83 



The Stalk-weevil 85 



The Potato-worm 86 



The Striped Blister-beetle. . .89 

 The Ash-gray Blister-beetle. 90 

 The Black -rat and Black 

 Blister-beetles 91 



The Potato. 



The Margined Blister-beetle 92 

 The Three-lined Leaf-bee- 

 tle 92 



The Colorado Potato-beetle 94 



Sweet Potato 102 



Tortoise-beetles 102 



The Two-striped Sweet-po- 

 tato Beetle 105 



The Golden Tortoise-beetle.106 

 The Pale-thighed Tortoise- 

 beetle 108 



The Black-legged Tortoise- 

 beetle 109 



Turnip and Ruta-Baga 110 



Insects Injurious to Cereax, Grains and the Grass Crops, in- 

 cluding Clover. 



Grains— The Chinch-bug 112 



False Chinch-bugs 117 



The Hessian Fly. 120 



The Wheat-Midge 123 



The Joint-worm 124 



Army Worms 129 



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Grains — Northern Army Worm.130 

 Wheat-head Army Worm.. 134 



Clover 135 



Clovcr-seed Midge 135 



Clover Root-borer 136 



The Clover-worm 137 



