300 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Riley, Charles V.— The Psyllidcc of the United States. 



(Science, September 7, 1883, n, p. 337.) 



Abstract of paper read before American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, at Minneapolis, August, 1883 ; list of new genera species of Psytliddt 

 described in tbe paper,, and of their respective food-plantSj with general state- 

 ment of the character of the egg and larva in this family. 



— — Improved method of spraying trees for protection against in- 

 sects. 



(Science, September 14, 1883, II, p. 378.) 



Abstract of paper read before American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, at Minneapolis, August, 1883; description of principles embodied iu 

 apparatus devised at the U. S. Department of Agriculture for spraying trees 

 with insecticides from the ground. 



The old, old question of species. 



(Amer. Naturalist, September, 1883, xvn, p. 975.) 



Comments upon a discussion between H. A. Hagen and W. H. Edwards as 

 to the number of North American species of Papilio of the P. machaon group ; 

 the views of both parties extreme; views of the author in regard to the true 

 nature of species. 



Myrmeteophila. 



(Amer. Naturalist, September, 1883, xvn, pp. 985-976. ) 



Record of recent captures of Myrmecophila in Oregon and in District of Co- 

 lumbia, and reference to records of former captures in United States ; the 

 habits of the genus the same in this country as in Europe. 



Salt-water Insects used as food. 



(Amer. Naturalist, September, 1883, XVII, pp. 976-977.) 

 Occurrence of a species of Ephydra, supposed to be E. Mans, in Lake Tet- 

 scoco, in Mexico ; E. gracilis found in Great Salt Lake, Utah, and E. califor- 

 nica in lakes in California ; account given by W. H. Brewer of the manner iu 

 which the last-mentioned species is gathered and used for food by the Indians 

 living near Mono Lake. 



Food-plants of Samia cynthia. 



(Amer. Naturalist, September, 1883, XVII, p. 977.) 



Review of H. H. Biruey's '' Samia cynthia feeding on the Sassafras and Tulip 

 tree" (Amer. Naturalist, August, 1883, xvii, p. 879) ; list of plants on which 

 Samia cynthia has hitherto been found feeding ; some of these are the favorite 

 food-plants of Callosamia promethea. 



Steganoptycha claypoleana. 



(Amer. Naturalist, September, 1883, xvii, p. 978.) 



Description of the imago of Steganoptycha claypoleana Riley, in comparison 

 with that of Proteoteras aesculana Riley ; notes on the habits of both species 

 with larval differences they exhibit. 



A parasite of the Cabbage- worm. 



(Rural New Yorker, October 6, 1883. 



Letter from J. H. B , with answer ; parasitism of Pteromalus pupa- 

 rum in larva? and pupae of Pieris [rapce~\. 

 — The Handmaid moth. 



(Rural New Yorker, October 13; 1883.) 



Answer to inquiry of H. B. S ; description of larva, pupa and imago 



of Datana ministra, from hickory and walnut trees, and of a phytophagic va- 

 riety of the larva from apple and other trees; habits of the larva?; the lar- 

 va? unusually numerous in 1883. 



