75n KEroKT OF NATIONAL MUSKUM, 1891. 



CilAKLKS V. RiLKV — CoiltilUlCll. 



twenty yuai'.s. The .siibject is treateil iiudci the followint; headiugn: 1. The advance in the 

 knowledge of the lilb-bisloiies of injiiriou.s iii.seets; 2. Tlio jirogress in experimentation with 

 iusecticido siibstance.s; 3. The invention and improvement of apparatus for the application 

 of insecticides. 

 Chahlks v. Kiley. 'V\u' outlook for iip]>li('(l futoiiiology. 

 Iiitiect Life, III, No. 5, January, 1891, pp. 181-210. 



Annual address as president of tl)e As.sociation of Economic Entomologists held at the sec- 

 ond annual meeting of the Association at Champaign, 111.. November 11, 1890. The address 

 touches the following topics : Some results in economic work from tlie National Department at 

 Washington: the Hop Phorodon on the Pacific Coast: the Grape Phylloxera, the value of 

 the resisting American vines and the resin soap as a remedy : introduction of par.asites and 

 predaceous species; method of usiu'i bisulphide of carbon against grain weevils: insecticide 

 machinery: Strawsou's air-power distributor: international interests: use of contagious 

 germs in the field: agriculture: silk culture: legislation: publications of the experiment 

 stations: cooperation: the Department of Agriculture and the State stations: status of 

 the Association of Economic Entomologists: technical papers and credit in station publica- 

 tions: conclusion. 

 Chaulks y. Riley. List of Colcopterons larv;e sent by ('. V. Hilcy to F. Meiiu-rt 

 of Coi)fiiliageii, for the ITuiversity Miiseimi, in cxclian.oe lor Eiirojirau specimens 

 from the .Seliiodto Collection. 



Insect Life, ni, Nos. 7 and 8, April, 1891, i)p. 330-332. 

 The list embraces 125 species of Nortii American Coleoptera. 

 Charles V. Riley. On the destruction of the Gypsy Moth in Massachusetts. 

 Insect Life, ni, Nos. 9 and 10, June, 1891, pp. 368-379. 



Remarks made by C. V. Riley at a conference held in the rooms of tlie Committee on Agri- 

 culture, Boston, Mass., March 4, 1891. The remarks refer to the iiossil)ility and tlie means of 

 exterminating Ocne.ria dispar under State appropriations. The iiriiieijial ])articii)ants in the 

 discussion were Profs. N. S. Shaler, C. V. Rile.y, C. H. Fernald, and Mr. 8. H. Scudder. 

 Charles V. Rxlev. | Fifth Report | of the | United States | Entomological Commis- 

 sion, I being a revised and enlarged edition of [ Bulletin No. 7 | on | Insects in- 

 jurious to Forest and Shade Trees. | By | Alpheus S. Packard, M. U., Ph. D. | — 

 I With ■\vood-cuts and 30 plates. | Washington: | Government Printing Office, 

 I 1890. I 



The fidlowing jiortioiis were written by Chailes V.Riley: Letters of submittal ((>. viii) ; 



insecticides and means of applying them to shade and forest trees (pp. 31-47) ; insects in 



jurious to the Hack berry (chap, xil, ]>p. 001-ti22). Tlie report contains also copies or abstracts 



of Riley's unpublished note.^ on forest insects. 



Charles V. Rilky. Report on the Department of Insects in the U. S. National 



Museum, 1888. 



Beport of the Sinithsonian Institution (U. S. National Mu.seum), 1888 (1890), pp. 165-171. 

 ( H.vKLE.s V. Riley and L. O. Howard. A peach pest in Bermuda {Ccratiiis capitata 

 tl'ird). Order Diptera; Family Trypetidw. 



Insect Life, ni. No. 1, August, 1890, pp. 5-8, figs. 1, 2. 



History of the fly and of its injuries to oranges in various parts of the globe. . Extent, nature 

 of the injury to peaches on the Bermudas, remedies and preventive measures. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. 0. Howard. Some of the bred Hymciioptera in the 

 National Collection. 



Insect Life, m. No. 1, August, 1890, pp. 15-18. 



A systematic enumeration of North American parasitic Hipnenoptera. of the family Bra- 

 coniii oe {HuhfnmWy Microgasterince nin\ Agathidince) 'diul tlieir hosts, with dates and localities. 

 Continued from Insect Life, ll, Nos. 11, 12, June, 1890, ]). 353. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. Howard. Some of the bred ]>aiasitic Hymtnoptern in 

 the National Collection. 



Insect Life, lu. No. 2, September 1890, pp. 57-61. 



Continuation of the pai)er in Insert Life, in. No. 1, August. 189(1, \t. 18, and covering the 

 following subfamilies of Uraconidce: Ettpliorince, Miteorino'. Caljiptiiiw, AlyMnce, Daeniitina', 

 Maciocentiinef, IMo.spilince, Opiino', Ichtietitina; Tiixoneurina; and Aphidinee. 

 Charles V. Riley and L. O. H<)\yARi). Some new Ictryas. 



Insect Life, in. No. 3, Novemlx-r, 1890, pp. 92-106, ligs. 6-19. 



Descriptions and figures of the following new species: Iceri/a vofiaf, from Key West, Florida; 

 7. inonsen-alemis from Montserrat, West Indies; /. palmeii from Mexico. Crossotosoma 

 aegj/ptiacinn Doughis is refen-ed to Iceriin. \ eat'ilogiie and synoptic tiibles of the known spe- 

 cies of this genus are iipixiided. 



