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G. M. hrassicce, very common. M. persicarUe, two or three 

 specimens ; larvae not so scarce, T. ; several, G. ; and about half 

 a dozen, C. Apamea basilinea, common, G. and C. A. gemina, 

 common, both forms exist. A. leucostifima, one specimen, G. 

 A. didyma, very common and variable. Miana strigilis, common. 

 M. literosa, not scarce, T. ; common, G. and C. M. bicoloria, 

 rather scarce, T. ; common, G. and C. Grammesia trigrammica, 

 common. Stilhia anomala, scarce, T ; several, G. ; one, C. 

 Caradrina morpheus, one specimen, C. G. taraxaci, common ; 

 very partial to flowers of Tcucrimn scorodonia. In a fairly long 

 series obtained at C, Mr. Barrett failed to find any alsines. 

 Mr. Kane says, " not apparently in great numbers ;" this is not 

 our experience, as we found it very common. G. quadripnnctata, 

 common. Busina teiichrosa, common, T. ; several, G. and C. (all 

 the melanic variety). Agrotis vestigialis, a few near G. .1. sujf'nsa, 

 common. A. saiicia, common in the autumn brood. A. segetum, 

 very common. A. lunigera, four specimens at C, at sugar in a 

 lane about two hundred yards from the sea, with no precipitous 

 cliffs for several miles distant. A. exclamationis, very common. 



(To be concluded.) 



SOME SYSTEMATIC WORK PUBLISHED DURING THE 

 LAST FIVE YEARS UPON NORTH AMERICAN AU- 

 CHENORRHYNCHOUS HOMOPTERA (RHYNCHOTA). 



By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



1897. H. OsBORN & E. D. Ball, "Contributions to the Hemi- 

 pterous Fauna of Iowa " (Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. iv. pp. 172- 

 234, plates 19-26). 



1897. E. P. Van Duzee, "A Preliminary Eeview of the North 

 American Delphacidae " (Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. v. 

 pp. 225-61). 



1898. OsBORN & Ball, "Studies of North American Jassoidea" 

 (Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. vii. pp. 45-100, plates 

 1-6) : " The Genus Pediopsis,'' and "A Pieview of the North 

 American Species of Idiocerus " (Proc. Davenp. Acad. vii. 

 pp. 111-38). 



1898. Ball, " A Eeview of the Cercopidse of North America, 

 North of Mexico" (Rep. Iowa Ac. Sci. pp. 204-26). 



1900. OsBORN, " The Genus Sca2)hoideits " (Journ. Cine. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist xix. pp. 187-209, plates 9, 10). 



1901. Ball, "A Review of the Tettigonidaae of North America, 

 North of Mexico " (Proc. Iowa Acad. viii. pp. 35-75, plates 

 1-7). 



Our knowledge of North American Tetigoniidae (or Jassoidea, 



