16 [4310-4327] 



PSYCHE. 



[January — February iS 



1865. 



Kirtland, Jared P. Pear-tree blight— con- 

 cerningits cause and cure. (Prairie farmer, 

 29 July 1S65, V. 16, p. 71.) 

 Brief reference to cordyceps on melolontha larvae. 



5. A. F. (4310) 



1867. 

 Shimer, H : Notes on microfus {lygaeus) 

 leucopterus. Say, "the chinch bug." With 

 an account of the great epidemic disease of 

 1S65 among insects. (Proc. Acad. nat. sci. 

 Philad., May 1867, [v. 19], p. 75-8o-) 

 Description of this "disease," not at present identi- 

 fiable. S. A. F. (431 1) 



"Walsh, B : Dann. A plant growing out of 

 an insect. (Practical entom., Aug.-Sep. 



1867, V. 2. p. T16.) (Amer. entom., Dec. 



1868, V. I, p. 77.) 



On cordyceps from Iowa. Large numbers of infested 

 white grubs turned up by plow. Writer supposes that 

 the grub has eaten poisonous seed, which has germin- 

 ated after killing the insect. Hopes that kind of seed 

 may be discovered and sown where grubs are abundant 



5. A. F. (4313) 



1869. 



Walsh, B: Dann and Riley, C: Valentine. 

 Fungoid growths. (Amer. entom., Jan. 



1869, V. I, p. 91-92.) 



Publication of and remarks on a communication 

 from S: H. Y. Early. Fungoid growths on white grub 

 very common in Virginia, and believed to produce a 

 poisonous mushroom. 5'. A. F. (4313) 



Ratzeburg, Julius Theodor Christian. [Fun- 

 goid parasitism of insects.] (Proc. Bost. 

 soc. nat. hist., Apr. 1869, v. 12, p. 381.) 

 Letter to Dr. H. A. Hagen quoted. Finds an inverse 



relation between parasitism by insects and by fungi. 



S. A. F. (4314) 



1872. 



Murie, James. On the development of vege- 

 table organisms within the thorax of living 

 birds. (Monthly micros, journ., i Apr. 

 1872, V. 7, p. 149-155, pi. 12.) 

 Mention of fungi as occurring in insects. 



S.A.F.i^yZ) 



Packard, Alpheus Spring,//-. 2ndann rept. 

 on the injurious and beneficial insects of 

 Massachusetts, Boston, 1872, p. 4-5. 

 Several thousand dollars' worth of silkworms killed 



at East Medford, Mass., by imuoricA pebrine. 



S. A. F. (4316) 



1873. 



Leconte, J : Lawrence. Hints for the pro- 

 motion of economic entomology. (Proc. 

 Amer. assoc. advanc. sci., for 1873, 1874, 

 V. 22, pt. 2, p. 10-22.) 



Mentions the destruction, by pehrine or muscardine 

 from silk-worms, of the caterpillars on nine acres of 

 forest. S. A. F. (43:7) 



1874. 



Burrill, T: Jonathan. [Chrysomelid larva 

 attacked by a fungus.] (Colman's rural 

 world. 15 (.?) May 1874, v. — , p. — .) 

 Cordyceps on a larva resembling tliat of diabrotica 



vittata. S. A. F. (4318) 



Burrill, T: Jonathan. White grub in Illi- 

 nois. (Cultivator and country gentleman, 

 27 Aug. 1874, V. 39, p. — .) 

 Mention of cordyceps. S. A. F. (4319) 



Riley, C: Valentine. The unadorned tiphia 

 or white grub parasite : tiphia inoniata 

 Say. (6th ann. rept. state entom. Missouri, 

 Jefferson City, 1874, p. 123-126, fig. 34-35-) 

 Mention of /orrw/ija militaris (possibly/, cinered) as 



a white grub parasite. S. A. F. C4320) 



1875. 

 Peck, C : Horton. Report of the botanist. 



(28th ann. rept. N. Y. state mus. nat. hist., 



for 1874, 1876), p. 70. 



Description oi torrubia sup'erficialis n. sp. from dead 

 larvae. S. A. F. (4321) 



Riley, C : Valentine. Torrubia elongata, 

 the white grub fungus. (Colman's rural 

 world, 12 June 1875, v. — , p. — .) 

 I>i3.me oi torrubtu elongata proposed for white grub 



fungus. Figures from specimens obtained in Missouri. 



S. A. F. (4322) 



1876. 



Mann, B: Pickman, Notes on the white 

 mountain faunae. (Psyche, July 1876, v. i, 

 p. 183-184.) 



Syrphiis found infested by fungi {entomophthorae t) 



S. A. F. (4323) 



1877. 

 Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt. The hyphomy- 



cetous fungi of the United States. (Bull. 



Buffalo soc. nat. sci., 1877, v. 3: Feb.. p. 



189-192; Jul., p. 193-202.) 



Five species of entomochthonous isaria mentioned 

 on p. 1S9. S. A. F. (4324) 



Riley, C : Valentine. [Note on the develop- 

 ment oi torrubia clongata.'\ (N. Y. weekly 

 tribune, 4 Oct. 1877, v. — , p. — .) 



S. A. F. (4325) 



1878. 

 [Torrubia elongata, occurrence of, in south 

 and west.] (N. Y. weekly sun, 12 Sep. 

 1878, V. — , p. —.') S. A. F. (4326) 



Saunders, W : The annual address of the 

 President of the Entomological Society of 

 Ontario. (Can. entom., Oct. 1878, v. 10), 

 P- 183. ([9th] ann. rept. Entom. soc. Ont., 

 1S78), p. 5- 



Report of destructive disease (muscardine?) among 

 nearly full-grown larvae of Clisiocampa sylvatica. 



S.A. F. (4327) 



