300 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



2140. [EiLEY, C. V.] Phylloxera in California. <Amer. Nat., Feb- 



ruary [31 January], 1883, v. 17, pp. 199-200. 



Phylloxera vastatrix in California is most injurious in moist soils. 



2141. RLLEY, C. V. The hibernation of Aletia xylina [Say] in the 



United States a settled fact. <Sci. Amer., 3 February, 1883, 

 v. 48, p. 68. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 66-67. Keprint : <Proc. Amer. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sci. for 1882, 1883, v. 31, pp. 468-469. Separate : 

 <Salem, Mass., July, 1883, pp. 468-469. Abstract : <Amer. 

 Nat., April [15 March], 1883, v. 17, pp. 420-421. <Nature, 28 

 December, 1882, v. 27, p. 214. 



Proof of the hibernation of Ahtia xylina as a moth and of the perpetual ex- 

 istence of the species in Florida. 



2142. [RiLEY, C. V.] Fostering the study of economic entomology. 



<Kural New-Yorker, 12 February, 1883. S.-b. No. 42, p. 58. 

 Reprint : <Amer. Nat., April [15 March], 1883, v. 17, p. 420. 



Efforts of the French for the promotion of economic entomology. 



2143. [RiLEY,C.V.] Diseases of the chinch-bug. < Rural New-Yorker, 



17 February, 1883. S.-b. No. 42, p. 58. 



Note concerning paper of S. A. Forbes on two fungus parasites of Slissus 

 leucopterus. 



2144. R[ILEY], C. V. [Instinct of Cicada [= Tibicen] septendecim.] 



<Amer. Nat., March [21 February], 1883, v. 17, p. 322. 

 Remarks on note of E. W. Claypole ; sense of direction in insects. 



2145. [RiLEY, C. Y.j Food-habits of Megilla maculata. <Amer. Nat., 



March [21 February], 1883, v. 17, pp. 322-323. 



Summary of S. A. Forbes' observations upon the food of Megilla maculata ; 

 results of other observations on this subject. 



2146. [RiLEY, C. V.] Clothes-moths observed in the United States. 



<Amer. Nat., March [21 February], 1883, y. 17, p. 323. 



Notice of paper by C. H. Fernald. 



2147. RILEY, C. V. Entomological notes. <Rural New Yorker, 27 



February, 1883. S.-b. No, 42, p. 58. See : <Amer. Nat., April 

 [15 March], 1883, v. 17, pp. 419-420. 



Abstract of the rules of the international convention at Berne for the pre- 

 vention of Phylloxera ravages ; their adoption by Belgium. 



2148. RILEY, C. Y. Notice of an illustrated essay on the Noctuidce of 



North America. <Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., February, 1883, v. 

 5, pp. 77-79. Separate : <[Brooklyn, IT. Y., 1883], 4 pp. 



Critical review of A. R. Grote's essay. 



2149. RILEY, C. V. Concerning canker-worms. <Indiana Farmer, 3 



March, 1883. S.-b. No. 56, p. 69. ,<Prairie Farmer, 3 March, 

 1883. S.-b. No. 56, p. 69. <Pacific Rural Press, 10 March, 

 1883. S.-b. No. 54, p. 15. <Lancaster Farmer, March, 1883. 

 S.-b. No. 56, p. 72. <Gardener's Mo. and Hortic., April, 1883, 

 v. 25. S.-b.No. 42a, p. 631. 



Description of Paleacrita vernata and Anisopteryx pometaria; ravages of the 

 former; request for information ; method of observation. 



