690 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



Charles V. Riley. Premature appearance of the Periodical Cicada. 



Science, VI, No. 126, July 3, 1885, pp. 3, 4. 



Reply to Prof. Lester F. Ward's com munication to Science (vol. v, p. 470) ; reasons for re- 

 jecting Professor Ward's testimony regarding a supposed appearance of the Cicada septendecim 

 in October. 



Charles V. Riley. Periodical Cicada in Massachusetts. 

 Science, VI, No. 126, July 3, 1885, p. 4. 



Request for information regarding the presence or absence of the septendecim brood of the 

 Periodical Cicada of the year 1885 in southeastern Massachusetts. 



CHARLES V. Riley. The Song-notes of the Periodical Cicada. 



Science, VI, No. 138, Sept. 25, 1885. Also as a reprint in The Kansas City Review IX, Oct., 

 1885, pp. 173-175. 



With an additional paragraph mi the mechanism of the st inhibitory organs in tho Cicada 

 septendecim. 



Also as an abstract" in Proc. Am. Ass. A dr. Sri., xxxiv, Aug., 1885, pp. 330-332. (Ann 

 Arbor meeting). 



Author's separate copies published May, 1880. 



Description of the prevalent notes of tin; noise produced by the Cicada septendecim L. : First- 

 the pbar-r-r-r-r-oah note, most often heard during the early maturity of the male ; secondly, tlie 

 "screech," the prevailing note in the height of the season ; thirdly, the " intermittent, chirp 

 ing " sound. 



Charles V. Riley. A carnivorous Butterfly larva. 



Science, vn, No. 169, April 30,1886, p. 394. Also in Am. Nat., xx, No. (i, June, lb80, pp. 

 556-557. 



Abstract of paper read before the Biological Society of Washington, February 20, 1886. 



Gives a summary of the previous records of the food-plants of Fenesica tarquinius, and proves 

 from observations made by Tbeo. Pergande that the larva feeds upon different species of plant- 

 lice ( Aphid idaj). 



Charles V. Riley. Annual address, as president of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington : I, No. 1, pp. 17-27. 

 Charles V. Riley. Abstracts of remarks made before the Entomological Society 

 of Washington, and published in its Proceedings. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. of Washington: I No. 1 (February 29, 1884, to December 3, 1885), 1886. 

 The following aro the titles : 



On tho phytophagio habits of the genus Isosoma, p. 15. 



Description of anew species of Acrobasis (A. vaccinii), known in the larva state as "the 

 Cranberry fruit worm," p. 15. 

 Criticism on a report in Psyche regarding the habit of Tiphia and Rhipiphorus, ]}. 15. 

 On tho larva of Dipterous geuus Scenopinus, p. 17. 

 Observations on too Periodical Cicada, pp. 29-30. 



On food-habits of Walshia amorphella, and on the synonymy of Euryplychia saligneana, p. 

 30. 

 On Sphida obliquata Gr. <fc P. being synonymous with Arzama densa Walk., p. 30. 



Charles V. Riley. The Periodical Cicada. Cicada septendecim L., and race tredceim 

 Riley. 



Report of the Entomologist, Department of Agiiculturc, 1885, pp. 233-258 (27-52). pi. 1, 5, and 

 fig. 1, pi. 6. 



The seventeen and thirteen year races of the Cicada and their first discovery ; the two vari- 

 eties of the Cicada, their differences and specific value; development habit and food of tho 

 larva; transformations an d issuing of the imago; influence of civilization on the appearance 

 of tho Cicada; song notes of the Cicada; variation in time of appearance; enemies; the sup- 

 posed sting of the Cicada; oviposition ; injury to fruit-trees and remedies; geographical dis- 

 tribution and future appearance of all known broods ; influence of climate upon the races and 

 experiments in the transfer of eggs ; tho Cicada in 1886. 



Charles V. Riley. The Leather-Beetle or Toothed Dermestes. 

 Dermestes vulpinus, Fabr. 



Iieport of the Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, 1885, pp. 258-264 (52-58) pi. VI, fig. 2 



Injury to boots and shoes ; history of its occurrence at Saint Louis ; points in habits and 



natural history ; characteristics of the different stages; litigation growing out of the injury 



caused by the insect ; history of the Savannah case ; remedies and prevention; description of 



full-grown larva; figures of egg, larva, pupa, imago, dotails of larva and imago. 



