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G. M. hrasslcce, very common. M. persicarm, two or three 

 specimens ; larvae not so scarce, T. ; several, G. ; and about half 

 a dozen, C. Apamea hasilinea, common, G. and C. A. gemina, 

 common, both forms exist. A. leucostufma, one specimen, G. 

 A. didyma, very common and variable. Miana strigilis, common. 

 M. literosa, not scarce^ T. ; common, G. and C. M. bicoloria, 

 rather scarce, T. ; common, G. and C. Grammesia trigraminica, 

 common. Stilbia anomala, scarce, T ; several, G. ; one, C. 

 Caradrina morpheus, one specimen, C. C. taraxaci, common ; 

 very partial to flowers of Teucriuiii scorodonia. In a fairly long 

 series obtained at C, Mr. Barrett failed to find any alsines. 

 Mr. Kane says, " not apparently in great numbers;" this is not 

 our experience, as we found it very common. C. qiiadripnnctata, 

 common. Rasina tenehrosa, common, T. ; several, G. and C. (all 

 the melanic variety). Agrotis vestigialis, a few near G. .1. suff'iisa, 

 common. A. saucia, common in the autumn brood. .1. segetum, 

 very common. A. lunigera, four specimens at C, at sugar in a 

 lane about two hundred yards from the sea, with no precipitous 

 cliffs for several miles distant. A. cxclamationis, very common. 



(To be concluded.) 



SOME SYSTEMATIC WORK PUBLISHED DUEING THE 

 LAST FIVE YEARS UPON NORTH AMERICAN AU- 

 CHENORRHYNCHOUS HOMOPTERA (RHYNCHOTA). 



By G. W. Kirkaldy, F.E.S. 



1897. H. OsBORN & E. D. Ball, "Contributions to the Hemi- 

 pterous Fauna of Iowa" (Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. iv. pp. 172- 

 234, plates 19-26). 



1897. E. P. Van Duzee, " A Preliminary Pieview of the North 

 American Delphacidae " (Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. v. 

 pp. 225-61). 



1898. OsBORN & Ball, "Studies of North American Jassoidea" 

 (Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. vii. pp. 45-100, plates 

 1-6) ; " The Genus Pediopsis,'' and "A Pieview of the North 

 American Species of Idiocerus " (Proc. Davenp. Acad. vii. 

 pp. 111-38). 



1898. Ball, " A Review of the Cercopidse of North America, 

 North of Mexico" (Ptep. Iowa Ac. Sci. pp. 204-26). 



1900. OsBORN, " The Genus Scaphoideus " (Journ. Cine. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist xix. pp. 187-209, plates 9, 10). 



1901. Ball, "A Review of the Tettigonidase of North America, 

 North of Mexico " (Proc. Iowa Acad. viii. pp. 35-75, plates 



Our knowledge of North American Tetigoniidae (or Jassoidea, 



