THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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reprint of papers upon the Orthoptera 

 originally published in the preceding year. 

 The accompanying index furnishes a 

 ready means of reference to the species 

 contained in the several papers. 



In the Annual Report of the Chief of 

 Engineers for 1878, Prof. Cyrus Thomas 

 reports upon a small collection of Orthop- 

 tera made in the Explorations and Surveys 

 of the San Juan region of Colorado. The 

 same volume contains a report by Mr. H. 

 Strecker, on Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera from the same region, in 

 which several new species of Heterocera 

 are described, and a few figured. 



Of our Entomological serials, the Can- 

 adian Entomologist continues to sustain 

 its high reputation, and to merit the con- 

 tributory aid which it is receiving from 

 nearly all of our American Entomologists, 

 and from some of our European friends. 



Psyche, the organ of the Cambridge En- 

 tomological Club, is near the completion 

 of its second volume. With the com- 

 mencement of its third volume such im- 

 provements are promised as will render it 

 of still higher importance to every student 

 of American Entomological literature. 



The Transactions of the American En- 

 tomological Society have reached the seventh 

 volume. Although the Society has become 

 a section of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, it is proposed to 

 continue the publication of the Trans- 

 actions as at present as rapidly as the 

 limited means available for the purpose 

 will permit. 



The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomo- 

 logical Society is continued. That of the 

 Long Island Society has been discon- 

 tinued. 



The second volume of the Butterflies of 

 North America, by Mr. W. H. Edwards, is 

 in course of publication. It continues to 

 maintain the high reputation which it has 

 commanded, 'from its admirable delinea- 

 tions of forms and coloring, and the ex- 

 ceedingly interesting new biological details 

 presented. 



The North American Entomologist is a 

 new candidate for favor and support, of 



which two numbers have appeared. It is 

 a monthly periodical, published at Buffalo, 

 N. Y., under the editorial charge of A. R. 

 Grote. It purposes to present articles of 

 value both to the specialist and the agri- 

 culturist on the subject of North American 

 insects, together with notices of current 

 entomological literature. 



Descriptions of the Noctuidse have been 

 continued by Prof A. R. Grote in contri- 

 butions to the Canadian Entotnologist and 

 in the North American Entomologist. With 

 a diminution in the number of new forms 

 of Noctuse presenting themselves, Mr. Grote 

 has directed his attention to the Pyralidae, 

 and has published a paper in the Bull. U. 

 S. Geolog.-Geograph. Survey (vol. iv., pp. 

 669-705), entitled, A Preliminary Study of 

 the North American Pyralidce, in which a 

 number of new species are described, the 

 species of Botis enumerated, and the ven- 

 ation given of certain genera of the 

 Phycidas. A supplement to this paper 

 follows in the North American Entomolo- 

 gist, No. 2, pp. 9-12. 



\^To be contintied^ 



[From the Pacific Rural Press.] 



THE MISSION GRAPE AND THE PHYLLOXERA. 



Editors Prrss : — It is asserted by some who ought to know, 

 that the Mission grape is not liable to be destrojed by the 

 Phylloxera. I should like to enquire through the columns of 

 the Press whether there is truth in the assertion. Will some 

 one give us his experience ?— W. R. Barbouk, Orange, Cal. 



Editors Press : — According to all ac- 

 counts, and observations made by himself 

 in the Sonoma valley, the Mission grape is 

 at least as liable to the Phylloxera as any 

 of the more hardy varieties of the foreign 

 grapes, and falls an easy victim to the pest. 

 The impression conveyed to your corres- 

 pondent may have originated in the state- 

 ment that the native California grape is 

 exempt from the ravages of the Phylloxera. 

 But this refers to the wild grape of the 

 banks of our streams, and of this the state- 

 ment is most probably true. It is, of course, 

 well understood that the Mission vine, 

 though now growing wild in some regions, 

 is an imported European plant. 



I hope that those who, in timely fore- 

 sight of the inevitable, propose to graft 



