BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 123 



1059. RILEY, C. V. Continued. 



INSECT ENEMIES OF THE HONEY-BEE Continued. 

 The bee-killer, Promachiis apivorns 168 



It is an Asilid fly, 168 Mr. Thompson's account of the fly, 168 

 How it captures and kills Lees, 168 No remedy known, 168. 



BENEFICIAL INSECTS. 



THE REAR-HORSE, alias CAMEL- CRICKET, alias DEVIL'S RIDING-HOKSE, 



Phasmomantis Carolina 169 



Its food, 1(59 How it grasps its prey, 169 Difference in the sexes, 

 170 The larva, 170 The egg-mass, 170 The mode of egg-lay- 

 ing, 170 Voracious disposition of the Mantis, 171 Its beneficial 

 influence, 171 Trachina parasite of the Mantis, 171. 



INNOXIOUS INSECTS. 



THE SOLID AGO GALL-MOTH, Gelechia gallwsolidaginis 173 



Gall caused by Trypefa soliclaginis, 173 Gall produced by the Soli- 

 dago gall-moth, 173- Its natural history, 173 Provision of the 

 larva for its protection within the gall, 174 Previous account of 

 the gall, 174 Gall caused by Cochylis Mlarana on Artemisia cam- 

 pestris, 175 Description of the Solidago gall-moth as larva, 

 chrysalis, and imago, 175 Parasites attacking it, 175; the in- 

 flating chalcis, 176; Eurytoma bolteri, n. sp., 176; Hemiteles (?) 

 cressonii, n. sp., 177; Microgaster gelechiaa, n. sp., 177; other 

 parasites, 178 Oberea larvae intruding in the gall, 178. 

 THE CHICKWEED [=KNOTWEED] GEOMETER, Hcematopis grataria 179 



Its natural history, 179 Description of larva and chrysalis, 179. 

 THE THISTLE PLUME, Platyptilus carduidactylus 180 



Work of its larva on thistle- heads, 180 Description of the larva, 

 chrysalis, and imago, 180. 



1060. EILEY, C. V. Eggs of the Mantis or rear-horse <Moore's 



Rural New Yorker, 10 April, 1869, v. 20, p. 234, 2 figs. S.-b. 

 No. 3, p. 52. 



Answer to inquiry of T. C. Bartle; description of Mantis [Phasmomantis'] 

 Carolina ; its food, habits, oviposition, and parasites ; figures its egg-masses 

 and those of Phylloptera [Amblycorypha~] oblongifolia. 



1061. RILEY, C.V. Native bark -lice on apple-trees. <Prairie Farmer, 



17 April, 1869, [v. 39], n. s., v. 23, p. 122, 1 fig. S.-b. No. 3 X p. 

 57. 



Answer to inquiry of T. B. Gardner; life history of and means against Dias- 

 pis harrisii [ Chionaspis furfurus] ; figure of the same. 



1062. RILEY, C. V. Curculio. <Prairie Farmer, 17 April, 1867, [v. 39], 



n. s., v. 23, p. 122. S.-b. No. 3, p. 57. 



Answer to inquiry of James Weed ; habits of and means against Conotrachelus 

 nenuphar. 



1063. RILEY, C. V. Cherry-tree borers. <Prairie Farmer, 17 April, 



1869, [v. 89], n. s., v. 23, p. 122. S.-b. No. 3, p. 57. 

 Answer to inquiry of Onargo Horticultural Society; larvse of Buprestis 

 [=Dircera~\ divaricata and of Trochilium sp., injurious to cherry-trees ; soft- 

 maple attacked by T. [ JSgeria^acerni; means against these insects. 



