200 Forty- FIR ST Be port on the State Musevm. 



leaf, are seen only from the upper surface. They are white, crinkled, 

 conspicuous, and with the small excremental grains often deposited in 

 two parallel lines near the margins. 



Effort will be made the coming summer to procure the insect pro- 

 ducing these mines, which may perhaps prove to be another species 

 of Fhytomyza. 



Megilla maculata (De Geer). 



The Spotted Lady-bird. 



(Ord. CoLEOPTERA*: Fam. Coccinellid^.) 



Coccinella maculata De Geer: Mem. Hist. Ins., v, 1775, p. 392, pi. 16, fig. 22. 



CoccinellalO-inaculataFAB-Rioivs: Spec. Ins., i, 1781, p. 99, No. 29; Mant. 

 Ins., 1787, p. 57, No. U. 



Hippodamia maculata Melsheimer: Cat. Coleop. U. S., 1853, p. 129. — 

 Glover : in Kept. Comm. Agricul. for 1866, p. 41 (parasitic attack) ; 

 id. for 1874, p. 123 (feeds on Colorado potato-beetle eggs). — Walsh- 

 Eiley: in Amer. Entomol.. i, 1868, p. 46, fig. 36; p. 186, flg. 138: p. 

 194, fig. 135.— Eiley: 1st Eept. Ins. Mo., 1869, p. 112, fig. 49.— 

 Packard: Guide Stud. Ins., 1869, p. 511, fig. 5U9 (mention).— Eeed : 

 in 2d Eept. Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1871, p. 71-2, fig. 72.— Saunders : in 

 8th Eept. E. 8. O. for 1877, p. 36, fig. 10.— Williams : in 9th Eept. 

 E-. S. O. for 1878, pp. 43, 44, flg. 30.— Comstock : in Eept. Comm. 

 Agricul. for 1879, p. 177, flg. 30 (mention).— Forbes : Bull. 6, 111. St. 

 Lab. Nat. Hist., 1883, pp. 51, 52 (food); 14th Eept. Ins. III., 1885, 

 p. 21-2 (eats corn). 



Megilla maculata Crotch: Ch List. Coleop. N. A., 1873, p. 49, No. 2823; in 

 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iv, 1873, p. 364 (description).— Webster: in 

 Bull. 3, 111. St. Lab. N. H., 1880, p. 152; in Amer. Entomol., iii, 1880, 

 p. 173 (eats pollen). — Eiley : in Amer. Nat., xv, 1881, p. 326 (feeds on 

 corn); id., xvii, 1883, p. 322-3 (food-habits). — Griffith: in Amer. 

 Nat., xvi, 1882, p. 408 (eaten hy Microcentrus retinervum). — Lintner : 

 in Count. Gent., xlviii, 1883, p. 941 (a corn pest). — Saunders: Ins. 

 Inj. Fruits, 1883, p. 125, flg. 129. — Dimmock: in Cassino's Stand. 

 Nat. Hist., ii, 1884, p. 312.— Hunt: in Miss. Ess. Econ. Ent., 1886, 

 p. 92-3 (bibliog. of corn insects). — Howard: Bull. 17, Chinch Bug; 

 Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agricul., 1888, p. 22, flg. 4 (food). 



A New Corn Pest. 



In the autumn of 1883, beetles sent for name, from Fairfield, Conn., 

 as " making bad work with corn," were identified as this species. In 

 response to the inquiry made of them, the following communication 

 was published, substantially, in the Country Gentleman, of November 

 22, 1883. 



The insects sent are " lady-bugs," of the species popularly named 

 " the spotted lady-bird," and the Megilla maculata of our present cata- 



