292 Forty-fifth Report on the State Museum. 



described. The insect hard to mature. The leaps of the cheese-maggot and 

 spring-beetles. Observations on a species of Podura occurring in immense 

 numbers at Center, N. Y. 



[The jumping-seed insect is now known as Carpocapsa saltitans Westwood, 

 See an account of it in the Fifth Report on the Insects of New York, pp. 

 151-154. Fig. 63.] 



Cucullia lastifica Zintner (n.s.). (Check-list of the ISToctuidae of 

 America, IN'orth of Mexico, by A. R. Grote, I, JSTovember, 1.^75, 

 pp. 24, 25.) 



The species is described from a specimen from Bastrop, Texas, in the col- 

 lection of Mr. O. Meske. 



List of Catocalas occurring in the State of New York. (Twenty- 

 seventh Annual Eeport of the New York State Museum of 

 Natural History, 1875, pp. 137-140.) 

 Contains forty-three species, with references and synonyms. 



List of New Species of New York Lepidoptera published in 1873. 

 (Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the New York State 

 Museum of Natural History, 1875, pp. 141-143.) 



Contains eighty species, mainly by A. R. Grote, in the Noctuidce and 

 Deltoidce — [the latter family united with the former by recent writers]. 



On Catocala pretiosa n. sp. (Canadian Entomologist, for July, 



1876, viii, pp. 121, 122.) 



The species is described from examples taken, at sugar, at Schenectady, 

 N. Y. It is compared with C. polygama, to which it is closely allied. 



Destructive Caterpillar. (Country Gentleman, for August 10, 

 1876, xli, p. 504, c. 2, 3 — 11 cm.) 



A caterpillar which is eating the leaves of apple trees in a young orchard, 

 at Manlius, N. Y., is, judging from the description given, Notodonta 

 [CEdeviasid] concinna (Sm.-Abb.). 



Cabbage-eating Insect. (Country Gentleman, for September 7, 

 1876, xh, 13. 565, c. 3, 4—14 cm.) 



Strachia [^lurgantia] histrionica (Hahn.) is identified as depredating on 

 cabbages at Nashville, Tenn. : its distribution, its eggs, and its broods described. 



The Grape-seed Fly. (Country Gentleman, for September 21, 



1876, xli, p. 599, c. 1, 2—40 cm.) 



Isosoma vitis Saunders is the insect infesting grapes received from New 

 Jersey. Its operations are described and remedies for its attack given. 



The New Carpet-bug Pest — Anthrenus scrophulariae. []\ead 

 before the Albany Institute, October 17, 1876.] (The Albany 

 Argus, for October 21, 1876. The [Schenectady, N. Y.] Daily 



