BIBLIOGRAPHY OP ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 187 



1423. RILEY, C. V. Continued. 



THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN LOCUST Continued. 



silky mite, 175 The locust mite and Dr. Le Baron's description 

 thereof, 176 The anonymous Tachina-fly, 178 The common 

 flesh-fly, 180 Remedies, 181 Classification of protective meas- 

 ures, 181 Natural agencies, 181 Destruction of the eggs, 181 

 Destruction of the young wingless locusts, 182 Driving off the 

 winged locusts, 184 Further suggestions, ,185 Locusts as food 

 for man, 186 The popular and scientific names of the insect, 

 187 Prairie fires vs. the Rocky Mountain locust, 189. 



Appendix to the article on the Rocky Mountain locust 191 



Letters of three correspondents from Texas and Kansas regarding 

 locust invasions, 191. 



3424. ELLEY, C. V. The ways of bag-worms. <N. Y. Semi-weekly 

 Tribune, 14 April, 1875, 3 figs. S.-b. No. 10, pp. 11, 36. 



Figure of the larva-case of an undetermined species of Psychidce and of the 

 several stages of Thyridopteryx ephemerceformia; habits of and means against 

 the latter. 



1425. [RiLEY, C. V.] [Poisonous qualities of the Colorado potato- 



beetle.] <N. Y. Tribune, 14 April, 1875. S.-b. No. 10, p. 17, 34. 



Mentions instances of poisoning from the fumes given out by scalded or 

 crushed masses of Doryphora decemlineata. 



1426. [RiLEY, C. V.] Cure for canker-worm. <N. Y. Tribune, 21 April, 



1875. S.-b. No. 10, p. 25. 



Paris green recommended for destruction of canker-worms when other rem- 

 edies are lacking. Paris green not to be used against all insects. 



1427. [RiLEY, <3. V.] Paris green : Its effects on plants and soils, and 



through them on man. <N. Y. Tribune, 12 May, 1875. S.-b. 

 Xo. 10, pp. 15-16; 34-^35. 



Paris green is not injurious to plants or the soil, nor dangerous to man when 

 properly applied. 



1428. [RiLEY, C. V.] Swellings on roots of Ampelopsis. <Colman's 



Rural World, 5 June, 1875. S.-b. No. 10, p. 1. 



Answer to letter of H. Hilker; swellings on roots of Ampelopsia possibly oc- 

 casioned by root-lice, but not by Phylloxera. 



1429. RILEY, C. V. Apple-tree plant-lice. <Colman's Rural World, 



5 June, 1875. 

 Answer to letter of A. Moyer; occurrence of and means against Aphis mali. 



1430. RILEY, C. Y. [Torrubia elongata, the white-grub fungus.] <Col- 



man's Rural World, 12 June, 1875, v , p . 



Torrubia elongata proposed as the name for the white-grub fungus; figures of 

 the same. 



1431. RILEY, C. Y. The Colorado potato-beetle, Doryphora decemline- 



ata. <Garden [London], 24 July, 1875, v. 8, pp. 71-72, 5 figs. 

 S.-b. No. 1*3, p. . 



Description and figures of all stages of Doryphora decemlineata and D. juncta ; 

 migrations, habits, prolificacy, enemies, and parasites of D. decemlineata', 

 means against it ; the use of Paris green ; probability and probable method 

 of its introduction into Europe and means of preventing such introduction ; 

 figures Lydella [= Exorista] doryphorce, Harpactor [= Milyas] cinctus, Arma 

 r= Podisus] spinosus, and Hippodamia convergens. 



