328 BEUTENMULLER, MONOGRAPH OF THE SESIID^E. 



1854. Westwood, John Obadiah. The American Oak-Gail Clear-winged Sphinx. Gardener s 

 Chronicle, 1854, p. 757. 

 Original description of Trochilium gallivorum (= Sesia sci tula). [ I0 8] 



1854. Emmons, Ebenezer. The Natural History of New York, etc. Vol. V, Albany, 1854. 



Brief compiled account (p. 222) of yEgeria (= Sanninoidea) exitiosa, poor figures of male and female, larva, 

 pupa, and cocoon (pi. xxvi, figs. 1-5). Short notice (p. 223) of oviposition and habits of yEgeria (= Sesia) 

 tipuliforniis and Trochilium denudatum (= Memythrus asilipennis). [ io 9] 



1855. Glover, Townend. Insects Injurious and Beneficial to Vegetation. Rep. Comm. Patents, 



1854 (1855), pp. 59-89, pi. 6. 

 General account of the life-history of yEgeria (== Memythrus) polistiformis ; figures of male and female moths, 

 larva, and cocoon. Account of Algeria (= Sanninoidea) exitiosa. Records nectarine and apricot as food- 

 plants for this species, and gives remedies, after Harris. [*7o] 



l8 55- Westwood, John Obadiah. Species of Trochilium and Cynips reared from American 

 Galls. Trans. Ent. Soc. London, Vol. Ill, 2nd ser. 1855, p. 21. 

 Similar account of Trochilium gallivorum (= Sesia scituld) as in 1854. E^ 1 ] 



1855. Fitch, Asa. P^irst Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of the State of New 



York. Trans. New York State Agricul. Soc. 1854 (1855), pp. 812-820. (The first 



and second Reports were also issued under one cover with title and index, Albany, 



1856, pp. 336, pi. 1-4, 37 figs.) 



Lengthy and very good account of life-history and habits of Trochilium exitiosum (= Sanninoidea exitiosa). 



Gives detailed descriptions of egg, larva, pupa, and imago. E*72] 



1856. Chenu, Jean Charles. Encyclopedic d'Histoire Naturelle, etc. Paris, 1856. 



Brief notes on Sesia {yEgeria) apiformis (pp. 5, 12, and 240), figure of adult and note on Sesia tipuliforniis 

 (p. 239). [173] 



1856. Greene, Joseph. Pupae of yEgeria apiformis. Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer, 1856, 

 p. 18. 

 Note on habits of pupa of yEgeria (= yEgeria) apiformis. E £ 74] 



1856. Stephens, James Francis. List of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. 

 Part V, Lepidoptera. London, 1856, pp. 28 and 30. 

 Mention of Sphecia (= yEgeria) apiformis and Sesia tipuliforniis. [ r 75] 



1856. Staudinger, Otto. Beitrage zur Feststellung der bisher bekannten Sesien-Arten Europas 

 und des angrenzenden Asiens. Ent. Zeit. Stettin, Vol. XVII. 1856, pp. 145-176, 193- 



224, 257-288, and 323-33%. 

 Excellent monograph, and literature of European Sesiidse. Description of Trochilium (= yEgeria) api- 

 formis (p. 195) and Sesia tipuliforniis (p. 202). t 1 ?^] 



1856. Schleicher, Wilhelm. Verzeichniss der Lepidopteren des Kreises ober deui Hinterwalde. 

 Verhandl. Zool.-Bot. Verein Wien, Band VI, 1856, p. 655 

 Mention of Sesia (= yEgeria) apiformis and Sesia tipuliforniis. [ x 77] 



1856. Fitch, Asa. Third Report on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of the State of New 

 York. Trans. New York State Agricul. Soc, Vol. XVI, 1856, pp. 387, 423, 429. (The 

 Third, Fourth, and Fifth Reports were also issued under one cover with title and 

 index, 1859.) 

 Brief accounts of Trochilium (= Sesia) tipuliforme (p. 423), Trochilium (= Alcathoe) caudaium (p. 424), 

 Trochilium (— Memythrus) polistiformis (p. 387), and Trochilium (= Sesia) pyri. [178] 



1856. Walker, Francis. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the 

 British Museum. Pt. VIII, 1856, pp. 1-71. 

 Original descriptions of yEgeria (= Sesia) bassiformis (p. 39) ; yEgeria (= Albuna) pyramidalis (p. 40) ; 

 yEgeria pleciceformis (p. 40) = Bembecia marginata ; yEgeria odyneripennis (p. 42) = Bembecia mar- 

 ginata ; yEgeria (— Gaea) emphytiformis (p. 43) ; yEgeria hylotomiformis (p. 43) =; Albuna pyramidalis ; 

 yEgeria (= Sesia) pyralidiformis (p. 44) ; yEgeria {=. Sesia) sapygceformis (p. 45) ; yEgeria (■= Sesia) 

 geliformis (p. 46) ; Tarsa bonibyciformis (p. 61) (= Memythrus asilipennis), and Sannina uroceriformis 

 (p. 64) ; also contains descriptions of other known American species. [ x 79j 



