374 Forty-fourth Report on tee State Museum 



The Clover-seed Fly — A New Insect Pest. (American Naturalist, 

 for March, 1879, xiii, p. 190.) 



Notice of a paper read before the N. Y. State Agricultural Society in 

 January last, in which is described a larva infesting the blossom heads 

 of the red clover, under the name of Cecidomijia trifolii. It occurs in 

 western New York, and has caused in former years the failure of the 

 seed crop which had been ascribed to imperfect fertilization. 



The Peach-Tree Borer. (Country Gentleman, for March 27, 1879, 

 xliv, p. 199, c. 2, 3 — 26 cm.) 



Application of hot water for killing the borer, and mounding around 

 the base of the tree for preventing egg deposit, is recommended. The 

 plum curculio is sometimes found in the peach. The fungus occurring 

 on the peach twigs submitted, is Stereum complicatum. 



The Clover-seed Fly — A New Insect Pest. (Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist, for March, 1879, xi, pp. 44, 45. Annual Report of the 

 Entomological Society of Ontario, for 1879, pp. 28-30.) 



Account of the discovery of the larva in heads of Trifolium pratense. 

 Its description as Cecidomyia trifolii, previously read to the State 

 Agricultural Society. New localities reported. 



Poduridse (Spring-Tails) in a Cistern. (Country Gentleman, for 



May 22, 1879, xliv, p. 327, c. 2 — 22 cm.) 



Habits of the Poduridce and their systematic position. The species 

 abounding in a cistern in Clifton Heights, O., is Lipura fimetaria (Linn.) ; 

 was probably introduced from damp shingles of a roof. An allied 

 species, observed at Center, N. Y., in a sandy roadway, may have been 

 Podura aquatica. 



[See the Second Report on the Insects of Neio York, 1885, pp. 208-210.] 



Entomological Contributions — No. IV. (Thirtieth Report on 

 the New York State Museum of Natural History, 1879, pp. 

 117-254. Separate, in advance of the Report, with title-page, 

 table of contents, index, and cover, June, 1878, pp. 144.) 



The contents are as follows : 



1. On Mermis acuminata Leidy. 



2. The New Carpet-bug — Anthrenus scrophulari£e (Linn.). 



3. Isosoma vitis Saunders — the Grape-seed Fly. 



4. List of Lepidoptera, collected by W. W. Hill, in the Adirondack 



Eegion of New York. 



5. Collections of Noctuidee, at Schenectady, N. Y., in 1875. 



6. On some Lepidoptera common to the United States and Patagonia. 



7. On Lycaena neglecta Edwards. 



8. Descriptions of two New Species of Californian Butterflies. 



[Lyceena.Lotis and Pamphila Osceola.] 



