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Riley, Charles V.— The " Pine Moth of Nantucket." 



(Amer. Naturalist, Juue, 1883, xvn, pp. 665-666.) 



Notice and crit. rev. of S. H. Scudder's. " [Tbe Pine Moth of Nantucket. 

 . . . A. Williams & Co., Boston, 1883] "; Iietinia J'rustrana considered to be 

 widely distributed, wherefore the suggested means against it lose much of 

 tbeir efficacy ; number of broods of this species ; principles on which popular 

 uamesfor injurious larvaa should be chosen. 



Insect Plagues. Locusts, Saw-Worms, and Caterpillars in New 



England. Professor Riley's proposals to exterminate them. Prac- 

 tical Advice to Farmers and Woodmen. 



(Boston Herald, July 22, 1883.) 



Newspaper interview, in which the autbor treats of the ravages of and 

 means against Caloptenus atlantis, Nematiis erichsonii, and Orgyia leucostigma. 



A unique and beautiful Noctuid. 



(Amer. Naturalist, July, 1883, xvn, pp. 788-790, with tig.) 

 Figure of imago of Cirrhophanus triangulifer ; description of its generic char- 

 acters and discussion of its affinities : criticisms of A. R. Grote's writing ou tbe 

 species; its probable habits; synonyms of this species, and statement of 

 circumstances attending tbe original description of it ; inference from struct- 

 ure as to larval habit. 



Insects affecting stored rice. 



(Amer. Naturalist, July, 1883, xvn, p. 790.) 



List of insects, mostly Coleoptera (Tevebrio molitor, T. obscurns, Murmidiua 

 oralis, Trogosita mauritanica, Calandra oryzir, Silvanus sur'uiamensis, Attagenua 

 megatoma, Lepisma saccharina), found in a lot of damaged rice from the Chi- 

 nese centennial exhibit in the National Museum; two species of these aro 

 carnivorous. 



Hyper-metamorphoses of the Meloidce. 



(Amer. Naturalist, July, 1883, xvn, pp. 790-791.') 



Proposal of simpler and more natural terms than heretofore used to desig- 

 nate the successive stages of development of larva? in Meloida. ( Triungulin = 

 1st larval stage ; Caraboid =2d larval stage; Scarabceoid == 3d and 4th larval 

 stages; Coarctate = 5tb larval stage ; Scol y to id = 6th larval stage.) 



Hackberry Psyllid galls. 



(Canadian Entomologist, August, 1883, xv, pp. 157-159, figs. 6-7.) 

 Critical review of T. W. Fyles' " The Parasite of Phylloxera raslatrix, and 

 the Gall Insect of the Nettle Tree" (op. cit., May, 1883, xv, pp. 83-84) ; Phyl- 

 loxera vastatnx has many parasites and Celtis is attacked by many species of 

 gall-insects ; description of characters of Pachypsylla n. gen. ; figures of galls 

 of Pachypsylla renusta and P. celtidis-mamma, to the latter of which species 

 belongs tbe insect described in Fyles' "Notes ou a Gall Mite of the Nettle 

 Tree, Celtis occidentalis" (op. cit., Oct. (872, xiv, pp. 198-199); Psylla celtidia- 

 grundis = Pachypsylla renusta; derivation and orthography of the generic term 

 Celtis. 



Some recent discoveries in reference to Phylloxera. 



(Science, September 7, 1883, II, p. 336. ) 



Abstract of paper road before American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, at Minneapolis, August, 1883; summary statement of the cycle of 

 development in the genus Phylloxera ; variation of development in the same 

 genus ; character of tbe gall of P. spmosa and place of deposit of the impreg- 

 nated egg of this species. But two generations annually, the second giving 

 the sexes and the impregnated egg passiug the summer, fall, aud winter. 



