Report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York . pically. The whitish transparent prolegs occur on the 2d to the/ih and 8th and 9th abdominal segments, each segment also witha small, black, lateral dot. Anal plate subcircular, black with whit-ish setose tubercles. Full-grown larva. Length cm. Head jet-black. Body a deepyellowish orange, sparsely covered with fine, whitish hairs and with a conspicuous row of irregu-lar subquadrate lateral mark-ings, a pair on each segment,and a substigmatal row of smalltriangular, black markings. The Poplarra^
Report of the State Entomologist on injurious and other insects of the state of New York . pically. The whitish transparent prolegs occur on the 2d to the/ih and 8th and 9th abdominal segments, each segment also witha small, black, lateral dot. Anal plate subcircular, black with whit-ish setose tubercles. Full-grown larva. Length cm. Head jet-black. Body a deepyellowish orange, sparsely covered with fine, whitish hairs and with a conspicuous row of irregu-lar subquadrate lateral mark-ings, a pair on each segment,and a substigmatal row of smalltriangular, black markings. The Poplarra^flyideviewoflarva,en- ^l^ck anal plate bcarS SCVCral larged. (Original) p^irs of submcdian white setae. Adult. Length .8 cm. Wing spread cm. Head shiningblack, short, broad. Antennae nearly as long as the body, com-posed of nine segments, the first two short, the others long, slenderand tapering successively to the apex. Thorax black dorsally, theventer and the abdomen yellowish. Wings yellowish basally, thestigma large, distinct. Legs mostly pale yellowish, the pulvillidark REPORT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST I908 15 Remedial measures. This leaf feeder should be easily con-trolled by timely applications of an arsenical poison, preferablyarsenate of lead. Bibliography 1888 Lintner, J, A. Ins. N. Y. 4th Rept, p. 44-46. (Brief account, asAulacomerus lutescens) 1889 Ins. N. Y. 7th Rept, p. 223-24. (Synonj-my, as Aula-comerus lutescens) 1906 Felt, E. P. N. Y. State Mus. Mem. 8, 2:568-69. (General account) IGrape blossom midge Contarinia johnsoni Sling. The work of this little midge has been observed here and therein Chautauqua vineyards for the last four years. The enlargedblossom buds, infested by maggots, have been found in smallnumbers each spring. Nothing was known as to the source ofthese little pests, aside from the fact that they were produced bysome small fly. It was not till the spring of 1909 that we wereenabled to rear this insect and show that it belonged to th
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