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1450. [EiLEY, C. V.] Potato-bug. <Ainer. Cyclopsedia, 1875, v. 13, pp. 



768-771, fig. 1-7. S.-b. No. 10, pp. 89-92. 



Food-plants, original home, geographical distribution, natural history, ene- 

 mies of, and means against Doryphora decemUneata ; figures of it and of 

 Lydella [=Exoriata'] do'ryphorce, Arma [=Podisw] spinosus, ffarpactor 

 [=Milyas~\ cinctus, Mysia [Anatis] 15-punclata, and Doryphora juncta. 



1451. EILEY, C.V. Eocky Mountain locust. <Amer. Cyclopaedia, 1875, 



v. 14, pp. 371-374, figs. 1-10. 



Ravages, description, natural history, migrations, and enemies of and means 

 against Caloptenus spretus ; figures of it with details of its structure and 

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1452. EILEY, C. V. The hateful or Eocky Mountain locust, Caloptenus 



spretus. <N. Y. Tribune, 1875. Eeprint: <Trans. Kans. State 

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Answer to inquiry of Z. F. Hopkins ; probable limit of the ravages and range 

 of Caloptenus spretus in Kansas, Missouri, and neighboring States in 1875; 

 means against and vernacular name of this species ; vernacular names of 

 Acrididce and Locustidce in general. 



1453. EILEY, C. V. Prairie fires and hateful locusts: is there any con- 



nection between them? <N. Y. Tribune, 1875. Eeprint: 

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 Criticism of the effects of the drought, hot winds, locusts, and short crops 

 in Kansas caused by the burning of the prairie grasses as stated in Kansas 

 Farmer, 23 September, 1874 ; benefits resulting from prairie fires by the de- 

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1454. EILEY, C. V. [Address on entomology.] <Trans. 111. State 



Hortic. Soc. for 1874, 1875, n. s., v. 8, pp. 103-111. Partial re- 

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 pp. 103-104. 



jEgeria rubi [=Bembecia marginata] injurious to blackberry and raspberry; 

 the cause and cure of scab in apples ; ravages, food-plants, seasons, habits, 

 andtaeans against ChrysobotJtrisfemorata-, evidence for the identity of the 

 . leaf-and root-forms of Phylloxera vastalrix ; means against the same. 



1455. EILEY, C. V. Discussion of the honey-bee. <Trans. 111. State 



Hortic. Soc. for 1874, 1875, u. s., v. 8, pp. 131-132. 



Apis mellifica as an enemy to horticulture; importance of insects in the fer- 

 tilization of flowers. 



1456. EILEY, C. V. Notes on locusts. <Trans. 111. State Hortic. Soc. 



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 Native habitat of Caloptenus spretus, 



1457. EILEY, C. V. Nonsense about the Phylloxera. <Colman's Eu- 



ral World, 12 January, 1876. S.-b. No. 10, p. 3. See: <N. Y. 

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There is no such species as the American corn-grape, which is reported capa- 

 ble of resisting the attacks of Phylloxera vastatrix, 



