180 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



1380. RILEY, C. V. Large willow-worm. <N. Y. Tribune, 15 July, 

 1874. S.-b. No. 10, p. 24. 



Answer to letter of J. H. P. ; food-plants, habits, and means against Cinibex, 

 laportei [= americana], 



1C81. RILEY, C.V. Black blister-beetles on potatoes. <N.Y. Tribune, 

 22 July, 1874. S.-b. No. 10, p. 17. 



Answer to inquiry of A. Ban ; ravages of and means against Epicauta puncti- 

 collis. 



1382. RILEY, C. V. Pear-tree slug. <N. Y. Tribune, 22 July, 1874. 



S.-b. No. 10, p. 17. 



Answer to letter of C. S. B. ; means against Selandria [= Eriocampa] cerasi. 



1383. RILEY, C. V. The plug-ugly theory. <N. Y. Tribune, 22 July, 



1874. S.-b. No. 10, p. 17. 



Answer to letter of O. J. B. ; insertion of sulphur, calomel, and similar pow- 

 ders in the trunks of trees has no effect upon the sap or upon the insects 

 which injure the trees. 



1384. RILEY, C. V. Cockscomb elm-gall. <N. Y. Tribune, 22 July, 



1874. S.-b. No. 10, p. 17. 



Answer to inquiry of J. S. Ruby; Thelaxes [= Colopha~\ ulmicola forms ex- 

 crescences on the American elm. 



1385. RILEY, C. V. Pitcher-plant insects. <Hartford [Conn.] Daily 



Courant, 15 August, 1874, v. 38, No. 195, p. 1. See : <N. Y. 

 Tribune Extra : Lecture and Letter series No. 21, August, 1874, 

 pp. 56-58, fig. Reprint: <Nature, 8 October, 1874, v. 10, pp. 

 463-465, figs. 1-2. Abstract : <Sci. Amer., 12 September, 1874 

 [v. 45], n. s., v. 31, p. 168. <Amer. Nat.. November, 1874, v. 8, 

 pp. 684-687. Reprint of abstract: <Hardwicke's Science 

 Gossip, December, 1874, v. 10, pp. 272-275, figs. 179-182. Ex- 

 tract: <Ca. Ent., November, 1874, v. 6, pp. 207-214, figs. 

 25-26. Reprint of extract: <Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 

 for 1874, June, 1875, v. 23, pp. 18-25, 2 figs. Separate of re- 

 print : <Salem, Mass., December, 1874, pp. 18-25, figs. 



Insect-catching habits of Sarracenia variolaris ; list of its victims; habits 

 and figures of all stages of Xanthoptera [= Exyra] semicrocea and Sarcophaga 

 sarracenice : capture of insects by other plants. 



1386. RILEY, C. V. On the habits and transformations of Canthon hud- 



sonias, Forst.; the common " tumbledung." <Hartford [Conn.] 

 Daily Courant, 18 August, 1874, No. 11162, v. 38, No. 197, p. 2. 

 Reprint: <N. Y. Tribune Extra: Lecture and Letter series, 

 No. 21, August, 1874, pp. 75-76. 

 Breeding habits and oviposition of Canthon hudaonias [=7aTi]. 



1387. RILEY, C. V. On the larval habits of the cantharM genera Epi- 



cauta and Henous. <Hartford [Conn.] Daily Courant, 18 Au- 

 gust, 1874, No. 11162, v. 38, No. 197, p. 2. See: <N. Y. Tri- 

 bune Extra : Lecture and Letter series, No. 21, August, 1874, 

 p. 76. 



Habits and hypermetamorphosis of Meloe angusticoJUs ; probably parasitic 

 food-habits of young larva? of Epicauta and Henous; the images phyto- 

 phagous. 



