178 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



EiLEY, Charles Y. — Continued. 



C. aepiendecim aud C. tredecim; the natural relations or specific tlistiuctness 

 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 Ceresa hubalus. 



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. 



Eemarkable 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 Atlagenus mcgatoma within a 

 feather pillow, 



The Buckeye leaf stem borer. 



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



States that the insect mentioned as Sericoris instructana in [author's] "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 Sericoris daypoUana n. sp. ; gives habits and food- 

 plants of this species and of Proteoteras ocaculana, and points out distinctions 

 between these two species. 



Species of OtiorJiynchidce injurious to cultivated plants. 



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



Of North American Otiorhynchida the development and earlier stages of 

 only one species (Aramigus fulleri) are known ; images 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- 

 eiis grisea upon roots of apple and pear trees, and 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.] Corn- 

 miss. Agric. for 1881 and 1882, 1882 [Jan., 1883] ), p. 134-1^5, with additional 

 remarks; Chilo oryzaeellus. 



Is the same as Diphryx 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 unipuncta in great abundance and with dia- 

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



