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EiLEY, Charles V. — Continued. 



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

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



Gives description and figures of larva, pnpa, and imago of Chilo orygaeeUus 

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

 enemies, and ravages, and meaus 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 [7G-77]). 



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

 phenomena and supposed causes of "white blast" in rice plants; mentions 

 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- 

 plwrus robustus Horn. — The smaller corn stalk- borer. Pempelia lignosella Zeller — 

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

 Report upon Heliothi^ armigera. 



The corn bill-bug. Splienoplwriis robit^tus Horn (pp. 138-142 



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



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

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

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

 and imago of S. rohusius; description of larvae of Hhodobwnus Iredecivipunc- 

 tatus and Bhynchoplwrus zimmermarmi, 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 descrip- 

 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. 



14&-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 ^eitoiAis 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 larvro in 

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



