178 MAINE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. I905. 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The published accounts of this insect are meagre, as little 

 attention has been paid to it. 



An interesting popular description of Briopeltis festuccB given 

 by Mr. E. A. Butler in Knowledge, July 2, 1894, p. 148, reads 

 as follows : 



" This forms little compact oval tufts, like pieces of cotton 

 wool, attached to the stems and blades of certain grasses, and 

 there is certainly nothing whatever in their external appearance 

 to suggest any connection with insects, unless, indeed, they 

 might be cocoons of small ichneumon flies. But a close exam- 

 ination, revealing a number of separate threads standing out 

 in all directions, would soon dispel this idea, and would leave 

 their real nature as problematic as ever. Though apparently 

 not uncommon, they have not long been generally known in this 

 country (England) having previously, no doubt, been over- 

 looked, partly because of the little attention that was until 

 recently paid to the Coccidse, and partly because of the complete- 

 ness of their disguise. They seem to have been first noticed in 

 this country in 1856, when there is a reference to them in the 

 Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London; but that 

 was soon forgotten, and they passed out of knowledge till 1885, 

 when Mr. Q. C. Bignell again called attention to them." 



Dr. James Fletcher, in his report of the Canadian Experi- 

 mental Farms for 1895, (Ottawa, 1896) pp. 145-147, gives an 

 account of an outbreak of the cottony grass scale with references 

 to literature. 



Following are references to the Genus Eriopeltis as corrected 

 by Mrs. C. H. Fernald from her catalogue * of the Coccidse of 

 the World. 



G^NUS E'RiOPELTis Sign. Type, lichtensteinii. 

 Eriopeltis, Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., (5), i. p. 429 (1871) : 

 Ckll., Can. Ent. xxxi, p. 332 (1899). 



I. ERIOPELTIS BRACHYPODII Giard. 



Eriopeltis brachypodii Giard, Bull. Soc. Ent, Fr., (7), iii, p. 

 cxcix (1893). 



* Mass. Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 



