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2039. KILEY, C. V. The chinch bug. <Amer. Agric., November, 1881, 



v. 40, p. 476, figs. 1-3. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 21-23. 



Ravages, food-plants, and natural history of Blissus leiicopterus; descriptions 

 and figures of its several stages and of dimorphic form of the imago ; effect 

 of wet weather upon it. 



2040. [RiLEY, C. V.] Retarded development in insects. < Amer. Nat., 



[3] December, 1881, v. 15, pp. 1007-1008. Kepriiit: <Proc. 

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 270, 271. Notice : <Gardener's Chronicle, 27 May, 1882, v. 17, 

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Eggs of Caloptenus spretus retained their vitality four and one-half years un- 

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2041. [RiLEY, C. V.] Preparation of Diptera. <Amer. Nat., [3] De- 



cember, 1881, v. 15, p. 1008. 



Notice of paper of J. Mik. 



2042. [RiLEY, C. V.] Another herbivorous ground-beetle. <Amer. 



Nat., [3] December, 1881, v. 15, p. 1011. 

 Anisodactylus confusus injuring strawberry-plants in California. 



2043. [RiLEY, C. V.] A disastrous sheep parasite. <Amer. Nat., [3] 



December, 1881, v. 15, p. 1011. 



A parasite (Trichodectes ovis f) doing great injury to sheep in Illinois. 



2044. [RiLEY, C. V.] Locusts in the West. <Amer. Nat., [3] Decem- 



ber, 1881, v. 15, p. 1013. 



Caloptenus spretus scarce in Colorado and Kansas; Camnula pellucida abun- 

 dant on the Pacific coast; destructiveness of locusts in many parts of 

 South America and of Pachytylus migratorius in Turkey ; means adopted 

 against the latter. 



2045. [RiLEY, C. V.] Structure of the claw in Psocina. <Amer. Nat.^ 



[3] December, 1881, v. 15, pp. 1013-1014. 



Notice of paper of H. A. Hagen. 



2046. [RiLEY, C. V.] Insect collection for sale. <Amer. Nat., [3J De- 



cember, 1881, v. 15, p. 1014. 



Notice of the collection of Coleoptera left by C. Trabrandt. 



2047. RILEY, C.V. Peach- tree bark-borer. Important note from Prof. 



C. V. Riley. <Rural New Yorker, 24 December, 1881, v. 40, p. 

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Habits and ravages of Phlceotribus Jimlnaris; means against bark-borers. 



2048. RILEY, C.Y. The chinch-bug. < Amer. Agric., December, 1881, 



v. 40, p. 515, figs. 1-4. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 23-2J. 



Figures Anthocoris [== Triplileps'] insidiosus and Harpactor [= Hllyas] cinctus 

 as enemies of Blissus leucopterus and Nysius destructor [= angustaius] and 

 Piesma cinerea as likely to be confounded with it ; mentions other enemies 

 of the chinch-bug ; means against it ; importance of irrigation. 



2049. RILEY, C.V. On the oviposition of Prodoxus decipiem. <Amer. 



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