108 



* 254. Vers a soie d'Amerique. L'Attaque Polypheme. 

 Attacus Polyphemus Linne. p. 302-31.9, fig. 9-11, with one 

 plate (ii). 



Description; habits; enemies; availability for the production of silk. 

 Enumeration of American silkworms. Experiments made with it, and di- 

 rections for its cultivation [from Ainer. Nat., vol. i (by Mr. Trouvelot)] ; 

 offers of assistance to would-be experimenters. 



* 255. The Mass. Ploughm. [see Rec, Nos. 33-38], 

 vol. xxxiii, from No. 40 (1704) contains the following. 



a. The Luna Moth. — Attacus Luna [fig., description (from Harris)], 

 No. 41 (1705-). b. Increase of Noxious Insects [habits and ravages of, and 

 means against disiocampa americana], No. 42 (1706). c. The Cranberry 



Worm [habits of - ? and of an onion cutworm], No. 42 (1706). d. 



Appearance of Dori/phora lO^lineata near Boston [Doubtful. B. P. Af.], 

 No. 43 (1707). e. Damage to the wheat crops by insects, No. 44 (1708). 



f. Diseased Squash Vines [ravages of Aegeria cucurbitae], No. 45 (1709). 



g. The Onion Miggot [copied from Rec, No. 238], No. 46 (1710). 



* 256. The Mass. Ploughm,, vol. xxxiv, as far as No. 20 

 (1735), contains the following, and No. 257. 



a. Eggs of the Bee Moth [description of eggs and egg-laying of Galle- 

 ria cereana~], No. 6 (1722). b. Agricultural Ants [habits of Myrmica mole- 

 facien* (from Amer. Nat., vol. viii; see Rec, No. 272)], No. 8 (1724). c. 

 The Work of Insects [commercial value of various insects and insect 

 products], No. 8 (1724). </. Destitution in Nebraska [extent of ravages 

 by locusts]. No. 8 (1724). 



* 257. Omaha Herald, Dec. 22. The Rocky Mountain 

 Grasshopper. No. 14 (1730). — .Also reprinted in Boston 

 Daily Advertiser, vol. exxiv, No. 154 (18, 723), Dec. 80,1874. 



Habits, habitat and habitus of Caloptenus spretus. 



* 258. The Froc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad, for 1874 [see 

 Rec, No. 40], contain the following, and Nos. 259 to 261. 



Statement of work done on the entomological library and collections of 

 the Society, pp. 229, 231. 



* 259. Prof. Joseph Leidy. On a Parasitic Worm of 

 the House-fly. p. 139-140. 



F'daria ( Habronema) muscae living frequently in the proboscis of the 

 common house-fly. [The occurrence of such a parasite was pointed out 

 by Mr. F. G. Sanborn in Nov. 1873, at a meeting of the Entomological 

 Section of the Boston Society of Natural History.] 



* 260. J. Leidy. Note on Dryocampa. p. 160. 

 Devastation of oaks in the forests of New Jersey by Dryocampa senato- 

 rial affection of the Dryocampa by the fungus Achlya prolifera. 



