78 DECIDUOUS FRUIT INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 
description, as Harris says in a note after the description: “ This 
insect appears to be the same as the one figured in Guerin’s Icono- 
graphie and Griffith’s Cuvier, under the name of Agloape americana 
Boisduval, but it is not an Agloape, for it has a distinct spirally- 
rolled tongue.” He makes no mention of a description and appar- 
ently had not seen any. The specific name should be attributed to 
Guérin-Méneville, as he is the author of the book in which the figure 
first appeared, and because he does not at any place give specific 
credit to Boisduval, who undoubtedly described it. 
The first economic account of the insect appears in Hovey’s Maga- 
zine of Horticulture for June, 1844, where Harris, under the name 
Procris americana, gives a full account of its relation to European 
species, its natural food plants, life history, and habits. He mentions 
it as first brought to his notice in 1830 by Professor Hentz, who found 
larvee upon a vine at Chapel Hill, in North Carolina. 
In 1855 Townend Glover reports it as injurious in the vicinity of 
Washington, D. C., and gives a short general account. 
Harris, in 1862, gives an account of it which is practically the same 
as the one which appears in Hovey’s Magazine, but shorter. 
Walsh (1866) next determines the insect and gives a short account 
of it, in answer to a letter. 
In 1867 C. V. Riley gives a brief account, with notes on its hfe 
history and habits. Bethune then (1867) published a short general 
account of it. 
In 1869 Walsh and Riley determined some insects to be Procris 
americana Boisduval. Riley (1870) gives the most detailed account 
published up to the present date and treats of its identity, food plants, 
life history and habits, natural enemies, and remedies. During the 
same year he again writes concerning it, but the account is taken from 
the previous one. 
Lintner (1879) gives a short general account and again (1883) 
mentions it in answer to a letter. The next account of it is a short 
account by Atkinson, in 1888. 
Neal, in 1890, presents most of the knowledge up to the present date 
and records some original observations as to the number of broods 
and varieties of grapes preferred. : 
Toumey (1893) records it from two localities in Arizona and gives 
a short review of its manner of working. 
J. B. Smith (1895) next writes concerning it and gives a detailed 
account of its life history and habits, with some new points on local 
distribution. During the same year (1895) Slingerland reviews the 
chief points in its life history in answer to a letter. 
Starnes (1898) gives a general account of it and mentions the fact 
of its being more prevalent in the West and South than in the East. 
