120 KEPORT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



EiLEY, Charles Y. — Plant-feeding habits of predaceous beetles. 



(Amer. Naturalist, April, 1881, xv, pp. 325-327.) 



Brings together various testimonies to prove tliat certain Carabidas and Coc- 

 cinellidce feed upon vegetal matter, referring to published articles on the sub- 

 ject. 



Notes on Papilio philenor. 



(Amer. Naturalist, April 1881, xv, pp. 327-329, Fig. 1-3.) 

 Describes egg and newly-hatched larva ; figures imago, larva, and i)upa ; 

 notes on distribution and food-plant (Arisiolochia.) 



Larval habits of Bee-flies. 



(Amer. Naturalist, June, 1881, xv, pp. 438-447, pi. 6.) 



Extract from chap. 13 of 2d rept. U. S. Eutom. Commission. Parasitism of 

 larvse of Triodites mns and Systoechus areas on eggs of CamnuJa pellucida ; review 

 of previous kuowledgeof the larval history of Bomhyliidw, with references to the 

 several accounts of observations ; description of larva) and pupiB of T. mus 

 and S. oreas, and figures of these and of the imagos. 



Additional notes on the Army worm, Leucania nnipuncta. 



(Proc. Amer. Assoc, Advanc. Sci. for 1881,xxix, j). 640.) 



Revision of views set forth in op. cit. for 187G, 1877, v. 25, pt. 2, p. 279 : num- 

 ber of annual generations two to several, according to latitude ; both larva 

 and imago hibernate, probably pupa also ; the insects may occur in destruc- 

 tive numbers from natural increase or from immigration ; they breed natur- 

 ally in all old, neglected fields; dry seasons favorable to the increase of the 

 insects in the following year. 



Some recent practical results of the cotton worm inquiry by 



the U. S. Entomological Commission. 



(ProQ. Amer. Assoc. Advanc. Sci., 1881, xxix, i>. 642.) 



Statement of principles established i^ the natural history of Aletia argilJa- 

 cea, which have a practical bearing ; the best poisons for the insects are Paris 

 green, London purple, pyrethrum, and oils ; methods of applying these poi- 

 sons. 



The hitherto unknown life-habits of two genera of bee-flies, 



bombyliidae. 



(Proc. Amer. Assoc. Advance. Sci., 1881, xxix, pt. 2, p. 649.) 



Lepidopterological notes. 



(Papilio, July, 1881, i, pp. 106-110.) 



From advance sheets of Bulletin 6, U. S. Entom. Commission. Synonymical 

 and Inological notes, with references to literature concerning Pliisia hrassicw, 

 Gortyna nitela, Arwmis xylina, rempelia grossularice, Penthiua vitivorana, En- 

 demis hotrana, EuryptycliiasalUjneana, Hedya scudderiana, Ancliylopera fragarke., 

 Tortrix Cinderella and T. malivorana and T. vacciniivorana, J'eras oxycoccana, 

 Octa comjyta and Tinea pustulella and Deiopeia aiirea-Oeta punctella ; describes 

 eggs of Teras oxycoccana and Octa punctella. 



The Periodical Cicada, alias " Seventeen-year Locust." 



(Farmers' Beview, June 16, 1881.) 



Statement of localities in which Cicada septemdecim Linn will occur ia 18S1, 

 and also of those in a thirteen-year race {trcdecim Riley) will appear. 



