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B. COCCIVORELLA Chambera (n. sp.). 



As mentioned in the description of B. citriella, this spocieg, of which I have seen two 

 damaged females, has the tuft projecting from the hroad joint of the antenna; the 

 face, however, is less elongate and nanow and is more convex than in the above-men- 

 tioned cpecies, and it is also smaller and not so slender, and the submedian vein of 

 the fore wings is not branched. It is sordid whitish, with a sillpr luster, dusted with 

 fuscus, a fuscns streak on the fore wings on the base of the fold, one near the base 

 within tlio costal margin, one on the disc, and the apical part of the wing is densely 

 dusted with fuscus; hind wings stramineous. Professor Comstock informs me that 

 the larva feeds on a large Coccus of the oak. 



EIJCLEME^fSIA BASSETTELLA (Clemens). 



Order Lepidopteiia ; family Tineidae. 



From the large gall-like bark-lice found on oak at Cedar Keys, Fla., -we 

 have also bred a beautiful greenish black moth, which has its fore wings 

 marked with reddish orange. This species was first described by Cle- 

 mens,* under the name of Eamadnjas Bassettella, from specimens received 

 from Mr. Bassett in Connecticut. The latter gentleman stated that he 

 had bred it from a gall on oak, but subsequently Mr. Eiley pointed out 

 to him that his supposed gall was in reality a Coccid. The rearing of 

 the same moth from what is evidently, if not the same, a closely allied 

 species of Coccid from two such widely separated locahties as Connecti- 

 cut and Florida is a strong indication of the permanence of the carniv- 

 orous habit in this species. 



NOTES OF THE YEAE. 



[Under this head we record the more important of the isolated facta which have 

 been brought; to our notice during the year, and other material of a fragmentary 

 nature wluch is of sufficient value to be published at once.] 



The Colorado potato-beetle {JDoryphora decemlineata, Say). — 

 Specimens of this insect were received from Mr. David G-. Lowe, Saint 

 Agatha's Post OfBce, Manitoba. This is the farthest point north from 

 which this beetle has been reported. Other specimens were received from 

 Lynchburg, Va. ; but in no instance has the species been reported from 

 a point south of the territory indicated by the map in Professor Eiley's 

 ninth Missouri report as that invaded by the insect when it first spread 

 eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. This indicates that there can be but 

 little danger of the species spreading farther southward than the north- 

 ern half of Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina. 



Encouraging news respecting the increase of the natural enemies of 

 this pest has reached us from several sections during the past year* ^ 

 D. Landreth & Sons wrote from Bloomsdale, N. J., June 4, as foUowS: 

 "We send you a small package containing four or five potato-bugs 

 infested with an insect enemy new to us. Hundreds of bugs can be 

 found upon oar farm completely enveloped with swarms of lice. The 

 lice eat up the potato-bugs, leaving only the shells." The parasite 

 proved to be a mite, the Uropoda americana of Eiley. Professor Eiley 

 received the mite from Painesville, Ohio, and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and 

 I have found it common at Ithaca, N. Y. It wiU probably foUow the 

 beetle to all parts of the country infested by it. Th^ ground beetle, 

 known as Lehia grandu, Hentz, was reported as being common in New 

 York, and active in destroying the potato-beetle. It is represented at 

 Plate V, fig. 3, both enlarged and of natural size. 



' Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vol. ii, p. 423. 



