234 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
the hind wings is more pinkish, like Arizonae (a species totally distinct in 
the color and markings of the primaries), and brighter than in cata, not 
like unijuga, where it is less pinkish and more like farta. My specimen 
of Walshit expands 82 m.m.; eocata averages about 78m.m. The 
band in the European zwpta on the hind wings is abbreviate, discontinued, 
broad and angulated or elbowed, hence very different from our American 
Arizonae, Meskei and Walshii, in which, though discontinued, it is not 
angulated, but is narrower, hardly constricted and straighter and longer. 
Although, judging by the fore wings alone, we should set down Wa/shii as 
“representing ” e/ocata in America, the very different hind wings separate 
the two species very clearly. Perhaps wrijuga is more like e/oca/a in the 
hind wings, and Washii in the appearance of the primaries ; hence the 
European e/ocata seems a compound of both of our species. 
BOO Ke NO al Cols: 
Fifth Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the 
State of Missouri. By C. V. Ritey, State Entomologist. 
This valuable report, consisting of 160 pages, 8vo., is full of interest 
to the agriculturist as well as the entomologist, detailing as it does the 
habits and history of many of the foes which the farmer and fruit-grower 
is obliged to fight. It opens with a chapter on collecting, studying and 
preserving insects, which is followed by one on noxious insects—notes of 
the year. In this latter, among other interesting matters, a discovery is 
announced which will probably prove to be a very important one, that of 
the finding of two parasitic insects which attack the worm of the Codling 
Moth. One of these Pimpla annulipes is said to have been common in 
the West during last year, Mr. Riley having obtained 21 parasites from 
162 cocoons of the Codling Moth. 
A large space is devoted to the Grape Phylloxera, an insect whose 
ravages, especially in Europe, appear to be exciting increased comment ; 
it is one also to which Mr. Riley has paid special attention. Further 
observations on the Oyster Shell Bark Louse are recorded, also on the 
Pine Leaf Scale Insect. Following these are chapters on £‘ Eggs in and 
on Canes and Twigs,” ‘ Stinging Larve,” ‘“ The Goat-weed Butterfly,” 
