690 EEPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



Charles V. Riley. Premature api>earauce of the Periodical Cicada. 

 Science, VI, JTo. 126, July 3, 1885, pp. 3, 4. 



Keply to Prof. Lester F. "Ward's com munication to Science (vol. v, p. 476/ ; reasons for re- 

 jecting Professor Ward's testimony regarding a supposed appearance of the Cicada septvndccim 

 iu October. 



Charles V. Eiley. Periodical Cicada in Massachusetts. 

 Science, vi, No. 126, July 3, 1885, p. 4. 



Request for information regarding the presence or absence of the septendecim brood of the 

 Periodical Cicada of the year 1885 in southeastern Massachusetts. 



Ciiaules v. Riley. The Song-uotes of the Periodical Cicada. 



Science, vi, JSTo. 138, Sept. 25, 1885. Also as a reprint in The Kansas Gity Review vs., Oct., 

 liS85, pp. 173-175. 



With an additional paragraph on the mechanism of the stridulatory organs in the Cicada 

 septendecim. 



Also as an abstract in Proc. Am. Ass. Adv. Sci., xxxiv, Aug., 1885, pp. 330-332. (Ann 

 Arbor meeting). 



Author's separate cojjies published May, 1886. 



Description of the pr evalent notes of the noise produced by the Cicada septendecim L. : First- 

 the phar-r-r-r-r-oah note, most often heard during the early maturity of the male ; secondly, the 

 " screech," the prevailing note in the height of the season ; thirdly, the " intermittent, chirp 

 ing " sound. 



Charles V. Riley. A carnivorous Butterfly larva. 



Science, vn. No. 169, April 30,1886, p. 394. Also in Am. Nat., xx. No. 6, June, 1886, pp. 

 556-557. 



Abstract of paper read before the Biological Society of Washington, February 20, 1886. 



Gives a summary of the previous records of the food-plants of Fenesica tarquinius, and proves 

 from observations made by Theo. Pergande that the larva feeds upon dili'orent species of plant- 

 lice (Aphididas). 



Charles V. Riley. Annual address, as president of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington : I, No. 1, pp. 17-27. 

 Charles V. Riley. Abstracts of remarks made before the Entomological Society 

 of Washington, and published in its Proceedings. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington : I No. 1 (February 29, 1884, to December 3, 1885), 1886. 

 The following are the titles : 



On the phytophagic habits of the genus Isosoma, p. 15. 



Description of anew species of Acrobasis (A. vaccinii), known iu the larva state as "the 

 Cranberrj' fruit worm," p. 15. 

 Criticism on a report in Psyche regarding the habit of Tiphia and Rhipiphorus, p. 15. 

 On the larva of Dipterous genus Scenopinus, p. 17. 

 Observations on tue Periodical Cicada, pp. 29-30. 



On food-habits of Walshia amorphella, and on the synonymy of Euryptychia saligneana, 'p. 

 30. 

 On Sphida obliquata Gr. & B. being synonymous with Arzama densa Walk., p. 30. 



Charles V. Riley. The Periodical Cicada. Cicada septendecim L., and race tredecim 

 Riley. 



Report of the E7itomologist, Department of Agriculture, 1885,'pp. 233-258 (27-52), yl. 1, 5, and 

 fig. 1, pi. 6. 



The seventeen and thirteen-year races of the Cicada and their first discovery ; the two vari- 

 eties of the Cicada, their diflerences and specific value; development habit and food of the 

 larva ; transformations an d issuing of the imago ; influence of civilization on the appearance 

 of the Cicada ; song notes of the Cicada ; variation in time of appeai'ance ; enemies ; the sup- 

 posed sting of the Cicada; oviposition; injury to fruit-trees and remedies ; geographical dis- 

 tribution and future appearance of all known broods ; influence of climate upon the races and 

 experiments in the transfer of eggs ; the Cicada in 1886. 



Charles V. Riley. The Leather-Beetle or Toothed Dermcstes. 



Dermestes vulpinus, Fabr. 



Report of the Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, 1885, pp. 258-264 (52-58) pi. vi, fig. 2 



Injury to boots and shoes ; history of its occurrence at Saint Louis ; points in habits and 



natural history ; characteristics of the different stages ; litigation growing out of the injury 



caused by the insect ; history of the Savannah case ; remedies and prevention ; description of 



foll-growu larva; figures of egg, larva, pupa, imago, details of larva and imago. 



