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1994. BILEY, C. V. Continued. 



insects, their periodicity and distribution ; no fear that C. spretus will com- 

 mit great ravages this year ; recommendation of a system of observations 

 and warnings by the United States Signal Service to guard against unex- 

 pected inroads of C. spretus. 



1995. EILEY, C. V. The caterpillar nuisance. <Evening Star [Wash- 



ington, D. C.], 24 June, 1881, v. 57, No. 8802, p. 3. S.-b. No. 

 23, p. 152 ; No. 42, p. 13. Eeprint : < Amer. Nat., September 

 [23 August], 1881, v. 15, pp. 747-748, 1 fig. 



Natural history of Hyphantria textor [= cuneo] ; means against it ; methods 

 of applying poisoned liquids to trees. 



1996. EILEY, C. V. Directions for cultivating pyrethrum for insect 



powder. <Gardener's Mo. and Hortic., June, 1881, v. 23, pp. 

 172-173. S.-b. No. 23, p. 153. 



Directions for raising Pyrethrum cineraricefolium from seed ; climate not favor, 

 able to the growth of P roseum ; preparation of these plants for the de- 

 struction of insects. 



1997. EILEY, C. V. Cotton- worms and Cicadas. Prof. Stelle's logic ! 



<Selma [Ala.] Times, 19 July, 1881. S.-b. No. 24, pp. 44-45; 

 No. 39, p. 123. 



Criticism of statements of J. P. Stelle; impossibility of exterminating Aletia 

 xylina ; waves of destructiveness ; Cicada [= Tibicen] tredecim abundant in 

 sections of Alabama, as predicted. 



1998. EILEY, C. V. The Eocky Mountain locust alias Western grass- 



hopper. <Amer. Agric., July, 1881, v. 40, pp. 283-284, 6 figs. 

 S.-b. No. 23, p. 142. 



Summary of facts concerning the egg-laying development, habits, food-plants, 

 destructive powers, migration, flight, and enemies of and means against 

 Caloptenus spretus ; figures of the eggs of the insect in all stages, of the 

 manner of oviposition, and of pans for the destruction of the locusts; pros- 

 pects of future injury. 



1999. EILEY, C.V. Lepidopterological notes. <Papilio, July, 1881, v. 



1, pp. 106-110. 



Advance print of extracts from Bull. No. 6, U. S. Entomological Commission, 

 pp. 56-58, 78, 82-83. See No. 2026 for synopsis of contents. 



2000. EILEY, C. V. Further notes on the pollination of Yucca and on 



Pronuba and Prodoxus. <Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 

 1880, 14 October, 1881, v. 29, pp. 617-639, 16 figs. Separate : 

 <[Salem, Mass, July, 1881], 23 pp., 16 figs. 



Recapitulation of published observations on Pronuba yuccasella and Prodoxus 

 decipiens, with additional observations and references to literature ; habits 

 and functions of the two species ; descriptions and figures of the generic 

 characters of Pronuba, Prodoxus, and Hyponomeuta, and of the specific char- 

 acters of Pronuba yuccasella, P. maculata n. sp., Prodoxus decipiens, P. inter- 

 medius n. sp., P. marginatus n. sp., P. cinereus n. sp., P. cenescens n. sp., 

 Hyponomeuta malinella, and H. multipunctella, especially the structure of the 

 ovipositor and the male characters, and the venation of the wings ; discus- 

 sion of the structure of the ovipositor in Lepidoptera characterization of 

 the new family Prodoxidce to comprise Pronuba and Prodoxus ; generic and 

 specific synonymy ; reply to criticism of T. Meehan ; list of insects frequent- 

 ing Yucca; synouymical list of the described Prodoxice. 



