BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 517 



Charles V. Riley. Report of the Entomologist. 



Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, L891, Washington Government Printing Office, 

 1892, with table of contents and index. 



Contains the following : Introduction, pp. 231,232; the work of the season, pp.232 246 de 

 struetive Locusts, pp. 246-252; insecticides, pp. 252-266. 

 Charles V. Riley. Note on the Life Habits of Megilla maculata. 



Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, n. No, 2. June :ii>, 1892, pp. 168, 169. 

 Vegetable feeding habit ofthe adult ; comparison of tin- larva with those of other Coccinel- 

 lidce. 

 Charles V. Riley. . On the larva and some peculiarities of the cocoon of Sphecius 



spcrioSUS. 



Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, II, No. 2, Jane iiO, 1892, pp. 170-172. 

 Description of the larva and cocoon of Sphecius speeiosus and explanation of the tabes pro- 

 jecting from an opening on the exterior of the cocoon. 



Charles Y. Riley. Mexican Jumping Beans. The determination ofthe plant. 

 Proceedings 'Entomological Society of Washington, n. No. -. June 30, 1892, pp. 178-181. 

 The food-plant of Garpocapsa saltitans hitherto unknown excepting by popular name, or 

 incorrectly referred to the genus Colliguceja belongs to the genus Sebastiania, of which three 

 (undescribed) species were recently collected in Mexico. General characteristics of these 

 plants and synoptic table, prepared by Mr. J. N. Rose, of the three species with diagnosis of 

 the genus Sebastiania. Probable mode of oviposition in Garpocapsa saltitans. 

 Charles Y. Riley. On the insects affecting the Agave. 



Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, n, No. 2, June 30, 1892, pp. 210,211. 

 Enumeration, with short notes, of six species of insects obtained from the flower-stems of 

 Agave dasylyrium, from Texas. 

 Charles Y. Riley. A probable Micror/asier parasite of flleodes in the imago state. 

 Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, II, No. 2, June 30, 1892, p. 211. 

 Enumeration of European species of Apanteles, bred from Coleoptera, and announcement of 

 the discovery of a species apparently belonging to Microgasterini. the larva of which devel- 

 oped in the abdomen of an adult Eleodes saturates, from Nebraska. 

 Charles Y. Riley. Our American Ox Warbles. 



Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, II, No. 2, June 30, 1892, pp. 212, 213. 

 Resume of observations made in Europe, and establishing the specific distinction of Hypo- 

 derma lineata from H. bovis; proof that the North American "Heel-Fly"' belongs to the 

 former species. The occurrence of H. bovis in America is doubtful. 

 Charles Y. Riley. Further note on Varpocapsa saltitans and on a new Grapholitha 

 producing Juniping-Beans. 



Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington. II, No. 2, Jane 30, 1892, pp. 213,214. 

 The moth bred from the capsules of Sebastiania bilocularis Watson, proves to !„■ different 

 from Garpocapsa saltitans, ami is described as Grapholitha sebastiania'. n. sp. 

 Chari.es Y . Riley. Fig insects in Mexico. 



Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, n, No. 2, June 30, 1892, pp. 214,215. 

 Enumeration of Hymenopterous insects (4 forms) cut from a dried fruit of a Eicus from 

 Mexico, all species proving to be different from the fig insects found in southern Florida. 

 Charles V. Riley. The Ox Bot in the United states. Habits and natural history 

 of Hypoderma lineata. 



Insect Life, IV, Nos. 9 and 10, June, 1892, pp. 302-317 Fins. 44-55. 



Proof that the American Ox Warble is Hypoderma lineata, and not H. bovis-, Dr. Cooper 

 Curtice's investigations of the life history of H. lineata ; mode of oviposition and character- 

 istics of the egg; how the larva enters the body of the animal ; migrations ofthe larva within 

 the body of the cattle; its slow development, anil the various forms assumed by it; differ- 

 ences between the larva of H. bovis and II. lineata ,- description of the egg; the four states of 

 the larva; the puparium and the imago; comparison of the imagos of the two species; sum- 

 mary and conclusions. The original figures illustrate all stages of II. lineata. 

 Charles V. Riley. The Yucca Moth and Yucca pollination. 

 Popular Silence Monthly, xi.i. Jim.', 1892, pp. 171-182, 10 fi>s. 



A reprint, with omissions, from the first part of paper published in Third Annual Report 

 Missouri Botanical Harden, 1892, pp. 99-158. 

 Charles Y. Riley. Directions for collecting and preserving insects. 



Bulletin of the V. S. National Museum. No. 30, Part F. pp. [11-(147J. pi. I, 139 text figures. 



