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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST FOR 1875-1877. 



Kecord of Collections of New York Heterocera for the year 

 18'(3. (Twenty-seventh Annual Keport of the ]N. Y. State 

 Museum of Natural History, 1875, pp. 144-148.) 



Contains one hundred and thirty-five species, with locahties and dates of 

 capture. 



The New Apple Worm. (Albany Evening Times, for April 12, 

 1875, xix, p. 2, cols. 3, 4. Thirtieth Report on the N. Y. State 

 Museum of Natural History, 1878, pp. 117-121, with additional 

 matter, pp. l'Jl-126. The same in Entomological Contribu- 

 tions, No. lY, June, 1878, pp. £-14.)* 



This entozoan, received from Middletown, N. Y., coiled in the heart of an 

 apple, was referred to Oordius: what Gordius is and usual mode of 

 occurrence: subsequently identified as Mermis, perhaps albicans, and 

 probably parasitic on Carpocapsa pomonella: how it may parasitize 

 the caterpillar: is its occurrence in the apple dangerous r M. acuminata 

 found by Professor Comstock in an apple: Mermis found by Professor 

 Riley parasitic on the apple- worm: Dr. Leidy on Mermis acuminata 

 and descriptions: Leidy on other entozoa: Dr. Speyer on Gordiacece. in 

 Insects: Dr. Packard on Gordius and Mermis. 



A New Apple Worm. (Country Gentleman, for April 29, 1875, 

 xl, pp. 262, 263, cols. 4, 1 — 31 cm.) 



Mermis sp. , a Parasite on Carpocapsa pomonella, found in an apple from 

 Orange Co., N. Y. 

 [Extracted from the Times article, see notice above.] 



Insect on the Cabbage. (Country Gentleman, for June 24, 1875, 

 xl, p. 392, c. 1, 2 — 13 cm.) 



Identification of Murgantia histrionica (Hahn.), from Charlotteville, Va., 

 together with its habits and remedies for its ravages. 

 [See First Report on the Insects of New York, 1882, pp. 264-271, fig. 77.] 



Blister Beetles. (Country Gentleman, for Jul}^ 1, 1875, xl, p. 

 407, c. 1, 2 — 23 cm.) 



An insect sent from Hastings, Minn., as destructive to potato leaves is 

 identified as the black-rat blister beetle, Lytta murina LeConte. It is 



♦.Entitled, On Mermis acuminata Leidy — a Parasite on the Larva of Carpocapsa pomonella. 



