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Note on Trioza crithmi, F. Low, a species of Psyllidce not yet known as 

 British. — Where " hangs (out) one that gathers samphire ?" If there be such an 

 one, he is the very person to direct the footsteps of the naturalist to the head quarters 

 of this insect, discovered by Dr. Puton on the sea coast in Brittany some time ago, 

 and who wrote to me immediately after its capture, saying, that it was certain to be 

 found in England where the plant grew. I hope some enterprizing individual will 

 try and obtain the species, and be good enough to send me living examples, together 

 with a small portion of the food-plant, for the purpose of figuring. Nothing is, I 

 believe, as yet known of its earlier stages, and the young forms would prove of much 

 greater interest than the adults. — John Scott, Lee, S.E. : March 12th, 1882. 



Note on some fungi that attack insects, Sfc. — Isaria arachnophila is parasitic 

 upon dead spiders, I.farinosa on dead pupa?, I. sphingum on dead moths. These 

 creatures are, however, first attacked whilst living. The genus Isaria is supposed 

 to be a sort of conidophorous, or larval, condition of the genus Torrubia (or Cordy- 

 ceps) amongst fungi. Several British species of this latter genus grow on the larva? 

 or pupae of moths, one grows on an ichneumon, and another (Cordyceps sphceroce- 

 phala) upon living wasps in the West Indies ; this last species seems to have no 

 place at present in the lists of British fungi, yet it seems probable that the fungus 

 now exhibited growing from the body of a bee, is no other. The bee was caught in 

 this country whilst it was inconveniently flying with its fungus burden. — Worth- 

 ington G-. Smith (extracted from a paper read at Sci. Committee R. Hort. Soc, 

 \Uh March, 1882). 



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Report of the Entomologist of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture for the tear 1880. By J. Henry Comstock. With Illustra- 

 tions. Washington : Government Printing Office. 1881. (Author's Edition) 

 pp. i— iv, 235—373. 



The primary object of this Report is to give notes on insects injurious to various 

 plants or crops in America, with indication of the remedies, and in this respect is 

 likely to be beneficial ; but it has a wider interest for Entomologists in the accounts 

 of the natural history of the insects noted, and in the descriptions of new species. 

 The Report is divided into three parts : 1, Miscellaneous Insects ; 2, Report on 

 Scale Insects ; 3, Report on the Parasites of the Coccidce. 



The first part is mainly devoted to Lepidoptera from an economic point of 

 view, and three new species are described : Pempelia Gleditschiella, Fernald, 

 from leaves of the honey-locust ; Grapholitha bracteatana, Fernald, from cones of 

 Abies bracteata ; and Botys repetitialis, Grrote, from cauliflowers. Two other new 

 insects are also described — Diplosis catalpce, Comstock, and Entedon diastatce, 

 Howard. Plates i and ii belong to this part. 



Part 2. This consists of a Report on Coccidce, preceded by an introductory 

 notice, in which are well and concisely given their characters and metamorphosis, to 

 which are added statements of methods for the destruction of these very injurious 

 insects, the preference being given to a solution of soap, the author saying — " The 



