174 



* 506. T. L. Mead. Notes upon some Butterfly Eggs and 

 Larvse. p. 161-163. 



Food-plants of Phyciodes tharos and Ph. rnarcia; description of young 

 larvse. Method of obtaining eggs of Limenilis arthemis', habits of larvse. 

 Description of eggs and of habits of young larva of Nisoniades luciliust 



* 507. A. R. Grote. The Effect of the Glacial Epoch upon 

 the Distribution of Insects in North America, p. 164—167. 



Explanation of the manner in which, in temperate latitudes, the moun- 

 tain relatives of boreal species may have attained their present distribution. 



* 508. J. L. LeConte. Methods of Subduing Insects 

 Injurious to Agriculture, p. 167—172. 



Statement of the measures which should be adopted by the national 

 government; materials, apparatus and method of attack. 



* 509. A. R. Grote. On a Canadian Species of Agrotis. 

 p. 172-173. 



Describes Agrotis versipellis n. sp. 



* 510. A. R. Grote. On certain Species of Moths from 

 Florida, p. 173-176. 



Describes Aegeria (Pyrrhotaenia n. g.) jl.oridensis, Didasys n. g„ D. Belae, 

 Dahana n. g., D. atripennis, Hexeris (n. g.) enhydris = 4 n. gen., 4 n. spp.; 

 note on Megathymus Yuccae] enumerates 7 species. 



* 511. W. Saunders. Meetings of the Entomological 

 Club of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, p. 177—185. 



List of persons present; scarcity of some insects and abundance of others 

 during the past year; measures for increasing the usefulness of State 

 Reports; locusts as food; distribution of Pieris rapae and P. prolodice; 

 habits and parasites of Danais archippus; captures of rare butterflies in 

 New York, Canada, Ohio and Michigan; sugaring for Noctuae; list of Noc- 

 tuae captured at sugar, at Schenectady, N. Y., by Mr. J. A. Lintner ; pita 

 wood {Agave americana) as a substitute for cork for lining insect-boxes; 

 report on nomenclature ; proposal for a pronouncing list of names of insects ; 

 resolve to ignore offensive names proposed for insects ; the Dimmockian 

 process for displaying the wing-structure of Lepidoptera. 



* 512. A. R. Grote. On Catocala Verrilliana, with 

 Notes on Catocala relicta. p. 185-186. 



Re-describes C. Verrilliana; varieties of C. relicta. 



* 513. A. R. Grote. On New Species of Agrotis. p. 186- 

 188. 



Describes A. Treati, A. brunneipennis, A. frtabilis = 3 n. spp. ; notes on 

 A. badicollis, A. campestris. 



