ENTOMOLOGICAL PAPERS OF DR. FITCH. ,301 



same time he named (as Argyrolepia pomoriana) a moth as its parent 

 which was quite a different insect, belonging to a different family.] 



1854. Insects of Algiers from the Museum of Natural History of Paris, 



confided to Asa Fitch, M. D., for the Agricultural Society of 

 New York [136 named species as per list sent]. 



Remarks upon the Insects named in the above List, by Asa 

 Fitch. (Id., for 1853, xiii, 1854, pp. 369-379.) 



In this paper Dr. Fitch, in remarking upon Colias Edusa, one of the 

 species received, indicates as New York insects, Colias Philodice 

 Godart, Colias ChrysotJieme Boisd,, Colias Phicomone Boisd., Colias 

 nastes Boisd., Colias sanies n. sp., and Colias Edusa. In the notices of 

 the Coleoptera he gives several instances of retarded development 

 among the Buprestidce. 



1855. [Entomology. No. I.] — Osage Orange Insect. (The Country 



Gentleman, for Jan. 18, 1855, v, p. 38 — 77 centimeters.) 



The Osage-orange has been highly esteemed and extensively used in 

 Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, as a hedge-plant, from its adaptation to 

 the climate and its freedom from insect attack. White-ants have been 

 reported as injurious to it, but it is probable that they only attack the 

 roots after they are dead. 



The insect now sent by Mr. Robert W. Kennicott, as occurring on an 

 Osage-orange hedge in Granville, Ohio, is a species of Leeanium, for 

 which if new, Mr, K. had proposed the name of Coccus maclurie, [from 

 the generic name of the plant, Madura auriantica]. It is probably 

 identical with the fig-tree bark-louse, L. caricce of Fabricius, but if 

 new, it should bear the name of L. maclurce. Dr. Fitch figures the 

 scales and describes them, and gives their natural history, drawn from 

 allied species. The proper remedies would be to remove the scales and 

 scrape the branches with a wooden-bladed knife, subsequently wash- 

 ing with gas-tar water or fish-oil ; or, if these are not convenient, then 

 with strong soap-suds, at intervals of a few days, two or three times. 

 For this, the spring of the year would be the best time. The trunk and 

 limbs, as a protection from future attack might be whitewashed, or 

 coated over with clay dissolved in water to the consistency of thick 

 paint. 



[No notice of this Osage-orange depredator, as such, at least, appears 

 in the New York Reports. It is probably the same insect subse- 

 quently described (in 18G0) by Dr. Fitch as Leeanium acericorticis, from 

 maples in Albany, and identical with the Leeanium maclurm of Walsh 

 and Riley (Amer. Entomol., i, 1868, p, 14), and with the species de- 

 scribed by Rathvon {Pennsylvania Farm Journal, iv, August, 1854, pp. 

 256-258) as Coccus innumerdbilis, now known as Pulvinaria innumera- 

 bilis (Rathvon).J 



1855. [Entomology. No. II.J— The Hunter Weevil. (The Country 

 Gentleman, June 14, 1855, v, p. 373 — 56 cm.= 2 cols. The 

 Cultivator, July, 1855, Third Series, iii, p. 221 — 40 cm.) 



Gives the characters of weevils, to which this insect belongs. It is 

 identified as the SpJienophorus venatusoi Say, described in 1831, and the 



