BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 183 



1408. EILEY, C. V. Bud-eating insects. <Cultivator and Country 



Gentleman, 25 March, 1875, v. 40, p. 183. 



Habits, food-plants, and means against Agrotis scandens ; means against field 

 cat-worms. 



1409. RILEY, C. V. Description of a new species of Agrotis. <Proc. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Sist., March, 1875, v. 17, pp. 286-288. 



Description of Agrotis morrisoniana n. sp. [p. 286], 



1410. EILEY, C. V. On the summer dormancy of the larva of Phyciodes 



nycteis, Doubleday, with remarks on the natural history of the 

 species. <Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adr. Sci. for 1874, 4 June, 

 1875, v. 23, pp. 108-112. Separate :-<Salem, Mass., March, 

 1875, pp. 108-112. Abstract : <Hartford [Conn.] Daily Cou- 

 rant, 18 August, 1874, No. 11162, v. 38, No. 197, p. 2. See : 

 <N. Y. Tribune Extra : Lecture and Letter series, No. 21, Au- 

 gust, 1874, p. 75. 



Observations on Phyciodes nycteis and Argynnis leUona ; significance of the 

 same ; detailed description of tho larva and pupa of P. nycteis. 



1411. KILEY, C. V. Descriptions of two new moths. <Trans. Acad. 



Sci. St. Louis, 1 February [March], 1875, v. 3, pp. 240-242, tigs. 

 12-13. 



Descriptions and figures of Xanthoptera [ Exyra~\ ridingsii n. sp. and Cerura 

 mulliscripta n. sp. 



1412. EILEY, C. V. The climate for Doryphora. <N. Y. Tribune, 2 



April, 1875. S.-b. No. 10, p. 16. 



Comments on letter from D. L. Garver ; Doryphora decemlineata would be 

 likely to thrive as well in the climates of Europe as in North America ; its 

 transportation across the ocean is not improbable. 



1413. EILEY, C. Y. [On an Acridium eaten out by ants.] <Trans. 



Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 6 April, 1875, v. 3, p. 102 Proc. 



Verbal communication ; inner soft parts of an Acridium americanum eaten out 

 by Myrmica minuta. 



1414. EILEY, C. V. [On the chrysalis of Pronuba yuccasella.] <Trans. 



Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 6 April, 1875, v. 3, p. 106 Proc. 



Verbal communication ; adaptation of pupa of Pronuba yuccasella to its needs 

 of prying its ways through the soil. 



1415. EILEY, C. V. [On regulating sex in insects.] <,Trans. Acad. Sci. 



St. Louis, 6 April, 1875, v. 3, p. 108 Proc. 



Verbal communication; critical review of Mrs. Treat's "Controlling sex in 

 butterflies " ; female insects need more nourishment than the males, bnt sex 

 is determined in all animals at conception. 



1416. EILEY, C.V. [On the peculiarities of Nephilaplumipes.] <Trans. 



Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 6 April, 1875, v. 3, p. 109 Proc. 



Verbal communication ; comparison of the structure of male and female Ne- 

 philaplumipes', habita and silk-production of the female. 



1417. EILEY, C. Y. [On the peculiarities of the Mexican honey-ant.] 



<Traiis. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 6 April, 1875, v. 3, p. 109 Proc. 

 Verbal communication ; structural and functional division of the neuters of 

 Myrmecocystus mexicanus into two distinct kinds. 



