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)d it is much to be desired that some rapid and easy mode 
ying some cheap insecticide to these larvae in the ground 
invented, since where their injury is sufficient to compel 
• .ng, every worm in the field could be destroyed by the ap- 
n of a little kerosene or Paris green to the old hills "of corn.* 
i the injury is not total it is easy to capture the worms by 
i/ithout injury to the corn. As they lie secured by day in 
und just beneath the surface immediately beside the corn, 
ay be turned out of the earth by a motion of the finger,— 
bbed nest always serving to show their position. I do 
bt that the labor of boys could very profitably be utilized in 
y, even in large fields of corn. 
2. The Sulphur Leaf Poller. 
(Dichelia sulphureana, Clemens.) 
Order Lepidoptera. Family Tortricid.e. 
[Plate I. Fig. 4.1 
Injuries to agriculture due to this species have been hitherto 
cant in Illinois, as far as my observation extends, but as 
ve attracted sufficient attention in other parts of the coun- 
varrant treatment in the reports of the United States Ento- 
\ t, and as I have found that they affect, to some extent, by 
: most important crop in Illinois, brief notice of them is evi- 
lesirable. 
LITERATURE. 
species was first described by Clemens in 1860, in the Pro- 
4 of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences for that year, 
3, as Croesia? sulfureana. In 1864 it was again described by 
le author in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 
idelphia, under these additional names : Croesia? fulvoroseana, 
virginiana, and Croesia? gallivorana , the form described 
he latter name having been received from Illinois. 
1 re general description, including all under one specific name, 
f • with notes on distribution, is given by Eobinson in the 
tions of the American Entomological Society for 1869, (Yol. 
78). 
A Report of Prof. Comstock for 1881, as United States En- 
ist, was published the only elaborate article upon this species 
as yet appeared, he treating it especially as a clover insect, 
ig the larva and pupa, giving an account of its life history 
3ated by his observations and breeding experiments, and 
izing the facts known respecting its distribution. 
> the above considerations apply also to the wire worms in corn, since these are 
athered wholly in the corn hills in infested fields. 
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