BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 309 



2229. RILEY, C. V. The potato-stalk borer. <Eural New- Yorker, 20 



October, 1883. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 78-79. 



Answer to letter of S. C. R. ; description, habits of, and means against Gortyna 

 nitela ; means against Paria aterrima, Graphops pubescens, and other larvae 

 of Chrysomelida; injurious to the roots of strawberry-plants. 



2230. [RiLEY, C. V.] Eecent advances in horticultural entomology. 



<Eural New-Yorker. 20 October, 1883, v. 42. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 

 79-81. Eeprint : <Proc. 19th Sess. Amer. Pomol. Soc., 1884, p. 

 45. <Trans. Wise. State Hortic. Soc., 1886, v. 17, p. . 



Report of address delivered ; discussion of measures recommended for adop- 

 tion to prevent the ravages of insects injurious to horticulture, especially 

 of Carpocapsa pomonella and Conotrachelus nenuphar; correction of state- 

 ments in regard to the ovi position ofSaperda bivittata [= Candida] and ? Hem- 

 bex marginata ; advance in knowledge of the life-history of Aphididce and 

 in the development of machinery for the application of poison sprays to 

 plants ; relative value of the principal insecticides. 



2231. EILEY, C. V. On a gall-making genus of Apionince. <Bull. 



Brooklyn Ent. Soc., October, 1883, v. 6, pp. 61-62. Separate : 

 <Broofclyn, N. Y., 1883, 2 pp. 



List of North American gall-making Coleoptera ; description of Podapion 

 n. g. [p. 62] and of the gall and imago of P. gallicola n. sp., found on 

 twigs of Pinus inops ; probable life-habits, inquilines, and parasite of this 

 species. 



2232. EILEY, C. V. Eeport of the Entomologist. <Ann. Eept. [U. S.] 



Commissioner Agric. for 1883, pp. 99-180, 13 pi. Separate: 

 < Washington, 31 October, 1883, pp. 5+ pp. 99-180+pp. 7, 13 pi. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



INTRODUCTION 99 



Scope and limitations, 99 Cabbage insects, 99 Lesser locust, 99 

 Protection of fruit and shade trees, 99 Office force, assistants 

 and agents, 99 Observations and report on insects injurious to 

 forest-trees, by Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., 99 Special report on insects 

 affecting the orange, by H. G. Hubbard, 99 Work of agents, 100 

 Monographs in preparation, 100 Commission sent to Brazil to 

 study certain insects, 100 Publication of third report of the 

 United States Entomological Commission, 100 Publication of 

 special bulletins, 100 Correspondence and work of the division, 

 101 The illustrations to the report, 101. 

 SILK- WORM NOTES 101 



Legislation, 101 California State Board of Silk Culture, 101 Pre- 

 miums offered in California, 101 Home culture, 102 Guaranty 

 of egg supply, 102 Woman's Silk Culture Association of Cali- 

 fornia, 102 California Silk Culture Association, 102 Reports 

 from correspondents of the division, 102-104 Issue of "Silk 

 Culture Directory," 104 Establishment of school in New Jersey, 

 105 Organization of Southern Silk Industrial Association, 105 

 A new machine patented. 105 Report on the future of silk culture 

 in the United States, by United States Consul Peixotto, of Lyons, 

 France, 105 Silk culture by the Mennonites, 106 Work at the 

 Department, 106. 



