Identifier: reportoninjuriou10newy (find matches)
Title: Report on the injurious and other insects of the State of New York
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: New York (State). State Entomologist Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Beneficial insects Insect pests
Publisher: Albany : State Entomologist
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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ion of Plate I. Fig. 1.— Manure gnat, Sciara coprophila. Fig. la.— Scutellar hump of the same, more enlarged. Fig. 2.— Head of the same: a, antenna; p, palpus. Fig. 3.— Portion of the compound eye still more enlarged and showing the relative proportion of chitine to the facets.Fig. 4.— Lateral aspect of the thorax: c, c, c, insertion of thecoxas of thepro- meso- and meta-thorax ; h, halter; S, spiracle; s, scutellar hump ; 10, base of wing.Fig. 5.—8th, 9th, and 10th segments of the antenna of the greenhouse gnat, Sciara caldaria. — Ditto of S. coprojihila. — Terminal segments of the palpus of S. caldaria. — Palpus of S. coprophila, showing the sensory pit on the secondsegment. — Lateral valve of the female of S. coprophila..— Ditto of S. caldaria..— Dorsal aspect of the terminal segment of the male of S. coprophila: d, dorsal plate; i, inner, o, outer appendages. Fig. 6.- Fig. 7.- Fig. 8.- Fig. 9.- Fig. 10. Fig. 11, I^eport X. N. V. State Entomologist. Plate I.
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SCIARA. TENTH KEPOBT OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST 397 Fig. 11a.— Dorsal view of the Chitinous processes beneath the median dorsal plate of tlie terminal segment in the male of S. coprophila.Figs. 12, 12a.— Ditto of the male of S. caldaria. Figure 1 is enlarged about twenty diameters; the others are much moreenlarged. Sciara caldaria nov. sp. The Greenhouse Sciara. (Ord. DiPTERA: Fam. Mycetophilid^.) A communication from a lady of Boise, Idaho (April 20,1893), givesthe following particulars of some • fungus gnats, believed by her tohave been injurious in her greenhouse: The fly, or flies more properly, for there are thousands of them inmy greenhouse, congregate wherever there is the least leaf mold ormanure (cow), no matter how old or well-rotted it may be. They laytheir eggs in the soil or under the pots or boxes; they seem (some ofthem) to shed their wings, and produce a white worm which is verydiflicult to kill. I have fumigated the greenhouse twice a week, usedlime and lime-wate

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