Annual report of the Regents . ppi (S. F. Earles,in Entomological News, i, 1890, p. 152). The Fongus ofPhytonomus punctatus (Fabr.).The Glover-leaf fungus that attacked and quickly killed the young larvae ofPhytonomus punctatus at the farm of the N. Y. Agricultural Experi-ment Station, at Geneva, in the spring of 1885, wasnoticed in the Fifth Report on the Insects of New York,1889, p. 272, as Entomophthora Pkytonomi Arthur. Atthat time, the careful study made by Dr. Eoland Thax-ter on The Entomophthorseof the United States, aspublished in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natu- f
Annual report of the Regents . ppi (S. F. Earles,in Entomological News, i, 1890, p. 152). The Fongus ofPhytonomus punctatus (Fabr.).The Glover-leaf fungus that attacked and quickly killed the young larvae ofPhytonomus punctatus at the farm of the N. Y. Agricultural Experi-ment Station, at Geneva, in the spring of 1885, wasnoticed in the Fifth Report on the Insects of New York,1889, p. 272, as Entomophthora Pkytonomi Arthur. Atthat time, the careful study made by Dr. Eoland Thax-ter on The Entomophthorseof the United States, aspublished in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natu- fig. 33 —Fangus- ral History, vol. iv. No. vi, April, 1888, had not come attacked larva of ,. ,,. __, Phytonomus under my observation. In this publication, Ur. Thaxter punctatus coiled has referred the E Phytonomi of Prof. Arthur, after about the tip of a examination of material from Geneva, N. Y., which had Enlarged five passed through my hands, to the Entomophthora diameters. Rphcerospeima of Fresenius, published in 316 Forty-fourth Report on the State Museum This species of fungus, according to Dr. Thaxter, is peculiar fromits infesting so many widely differing insects, distributed through allthe orders except the Orthoptera. It has been found on a Fieriscaterpillar; a Golias Fhilodice butterily; several species of Ichneumonidceand a small bee; the common house-fly and several species of Culicidce,Mycetophilidce, Tipulidae, and other families of Diptera; one of theLampyrid beetles; an aphis and on some of the leaf-hoppers(Typhlocybe); a Limnophilus among the Neuroptera; and upon Thripssp. in the larva, pupa, and imago. In two instances it had been seento prevail as an epidemic. Professor J. B. Smith reports, that in the spring of 1890 and againin 1891, the clover-leaf beetle in New Jersey (locality not stated),when appearing in great number and threatening destruction, wasattacked and were nearly all killed when about half-grown by afungoid disease {Insect Life, iv,
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