178 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



EiLEY, Charles V. — Continued. 



C. sepiendectm aud C. tredecim; the natural relations or specific distinctness 

 of the two forms so named, and shows the indistiuguishability of the species of 

 certain genera by the examination of cabinet specimens; states that dimor- 

 phic forms of identical species are more numerous than usually recognized, 

 and that Massospora cicadina is parasitic on Cicada. 



Buffalo tree-hopper injurious to potatoes. 



(Amer.Nat.,Oct., 1882, XVI, p. 823.) 



Describes habits, food-plants, and ravages of Cereaa huhalm. 



A new museum pest. 



(Amer.Nat., Oct., 1882, xvi, p. 826.) 



Announces the discovery, by Mrs. A. E. Bush, of Perimegatoma variegatum 

 as a pest in collections of insects. 



Remarkable felting caused by a beetle. 



(Rural New Yorker, 14 Oct., 1882). 



Modified reprint, with same title. 



(Amer.Nat., Dec, 1882, XVI, p. 1018-1019). 

 ■ This is a description of the felting of the interior of a pillow-ticking, with 

 fragments of feathers, formed by the ravages of Atiagenua mcgatoma within a 

 feather pillow. 



The Buckeye leaf- stem borer. 



(Amer.Nat., Nov., 1882, XVI, p. 913-914.) 



States that the insect mentioned as Scricoris instructatia in [authors] "The 

 permanent subsection of entomology at the recent meeting of the A. A. A. S.," 

 (Amer.Nat., Dec, 1881, xvi), p. 1009-1010, is totally different from that spe- 

 cies, and is here named Scricoris daypolea'na u. sp. ; gives habits aud food- 

 plants of this species and of Proteoteraa ceaculana, and points out distinctions 

 between these two species. 



Species of OtiorhyncMdce injurious to cultivated plants. 



(Amer.Nat., Nov.. 1882. xvi, p. 915-916. 



Of North American Otiorhynchidw the development and earlier stages of 

 only one species {Aramigus fulleri) are known ; imagos of two species have 

 become noticeably injurious ; the food-plants of eight other species were pre- 

 viously known ; announces discovery, by G. P. Peffer, of the injuries of Anam- 

 etis griaea upon roots of apple and pear trees, aud gives list of food-plants of 

 the above-mentioned species. 



A new rice-stalk borer; genus grinding. 



(Amer. Nat., Dec, 1882, xvi, p. 1014-1015.) 



An extract from the author's "The rice-stalk borer" (Rept. [U.S.] Com- 

 miss. Agric. for 1881 and 1882, 1882 [Jan., 1883] ), p. 134-135, with additional 

 remarks; Chilo oryzaeellua. 



Is the same as Dipliryx prolatella; mentions that the genus Diphryx was 

 stated by Lord Walsingham [T. de Grey] to have been founded by A. R. 

 Grote on a mutilated specimen (as suspected by the author), with mistake of 

 maxillary for labial palpi. 



The army-worm in 1882. 



(Amer. Nat., Dec, 1882, xvi, p. 1017. ) 



States occurrence of Leucania unipuncia in great abundance and with dis- 

 astrous effects, especially in southern United States, in 1822. 



