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KiLEY, Charles V. — Continued. 



Extract in author's "A new rice-stalk borer; genus grinding." 

 (Amer. Nat., Dec, 1882, v. 16, pp. 1014-1015.) 



Gives description and figures of larva, pupa, and imago of Chilo &ryeaeeUu8 

 n. sp. ; Diphryx prolaiella; refers to report of L. O. Howard upon its habits, 

 enemies, and ravages, and means against it ; describes structural character, 

 of the genus Diphryx, stated by Lord Walsingham [T. de Grey] (as suspected 

 by author) to have been founded on a mutilated specimen, with mistake of 

 maxillary for labial palpi. 



White blast (pp. 136-137 [76-77]). 



Publishes letter from J. Screven and report from L. O. Howard on the 

 phenomena and supposed causes of "whit© blast "in rice plants; mentiona 

 insects found on rice plants ; states probable production of white blast by 



insects. 



Other insects injurious to growing rice (p. 138 [78], pi. 7, fig. 



4-5). 



Mentions habits and food-plants of Laphygma frugiperda ; refers to occur- 

 rence of certain other insects doing minor damage on rice-plants. 



Insects affecting corn or maize (pp. 138-152 [78-92], pi. 1 ; pi. 7, 



figs. 2-3; pi. 8, fig. 2; pi. 12, fig. 1). 



This consists of the following subchapters: The corn bill-bug. Spheno- 

 phorus roluatus Horn. — The smaller corn stalk-borer. Pempelia lignosella Zeller — 

 The boll-worm alias corn-worm, Heliothis armigera Hiibu. — Johnson, L. 

 Report upon Heliothts armigera. 



The com bill-bug. Sphenopliorus rohustus Horn (pp. 138-142 



[78-82], pi. 7, fig. 2; pi. 8, fig. 2). 



Gives history of earlier observations on the species of Sphenophorus injur- 

 ious to maize in the United States; report of observations on S. robustus, by 

 L. O. Howard ; habits and ravages and description and figure of larva, pupa, 

 and imago of S. robustus; description of larvae of Bhodobwnus tredecivipunc- 

 tatus and Bhynchophorus zimmermanni, and figures of imago of the former; char- 

 acters distinguishing Sphenophorus and <S. robustus and the four other species 

 allied to it from other genera and species. 



The smaller corn-stalk borer. Pempelia lignosella Zeller (pp. 



142-145 [82-85], pi. 7, fig. 3). 



Mentions ravages, habits, seasons, natural history, geographical distri- 

 bution, and synonymy of and means against Pempelia lignosella; gives descnp- 

 tion and figures of larva, pupa, and imago, of structural details of mouth- 

 parts and antennae of male imago, of markings of larva, and of injury done to 

 cornstalks. 



The boll-worm alias corn-worm. Heliothis armigera Hiibu. (pp. 



145-149 [85-89], pi. 1 ; pi. 12, fig. 1). 



This is an advance reprint, from the fourth report of U. S. entomological 

 commission, of the section on the food-plants of Heliothis armigera other than 

 cotton, with a list of these food-plants, and of authorities upon which the 

 respective statements are made ; gives history of first proofs of identity of 

 this species on maize, with the same on cotton; and habits of the larvae in 

 their several broods ; with figures of all stages of the insect. 



