92 



Walsh & Eiley.— Idem. Amer. Ent. I., 224, figs. 158, 159. 

 Injuring seed corn planted on new ground in Missouri. 



]87S. Thomas, Cyrus.— Idem. Prairie Farmer, July 28. 1878. Re- 

 ported injuring Indian corn in Boone county, Illinois. 



1881. Eiley, C. V. — Idem. Gen. Ind. and Snpp. Rep. Ins. Mo., p. 



89. Description of imago. 



1882. LiNTNER, J. A.— Idem. 1st Rep. Ins. N. Y., pp. 199-201, figs. 



55, 56. Description of larva and imago. Preventives. 



Family Geomyzid^e. 



36. The Corn Leaf Miner. 



(Diastata ?) 



1881. CoMSTocK, J. Henry. — Diastata? n. sp. Rep. Com. Agr. 1880, 

 pp. 245, 246. Mining the leaves of garden corn, making a 

 linear mine five or six inches in length, a small, footless, 

 greenish white maggot, which transforms under ground and 

 eventually becomes a small, active black fly. Original de- 

 scription by L. 0. Howard. 



Order COLEOPTERA. 



Family Carabid^e. 



37. Omophron labiatum. Fab. 



1801. Fabricius, J. C. — Scolytus labiatas. Syst. Eleut. I., 248. Origi- 

 nal description. 



1823, Say, Thomas. — Omophron labiatum. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 

 New Series, II., 80. Complete writings, p. 495. Description 

 of imago. 



li:G9 Glover, Townend. — Idem. Rep. Com. Agr. 1863, p. 79. Men- 

 tioned as very destructive to young Indian corn in Southern 

 States. 



18.4. LeBaron, Wm.— Idem. 5th Rep. St. Ent. 111., p. 42. Com- 

 mon at the South. Larvre feed upon grains of growing In- 

 dian CORN. 



Family Coccinellid^. 



38. The Common Lady Bug. 



{Megilla maculata, De G.) 



1775. De Geer, Carl. — Megilla maculata. Mem. Ins. V., 392, 1, t. 

 16, fig. 22. {'reste Orotch.) Orignal description. 



