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of June, 1871, in considerable abundance, the whole shrub being covered with mined 

 leaves. 1 also took it on the wing in Mendocino County, 27th May, 1871. I have 

 received the same species from Dr. Riley, collected at Placer County, Cal., in 

 October, thus showing that the insect is on the wing at three separate times, viz., 

 May, July, and October — possibly three distinct broods. 



Tischeria malifoliella Clem. 



Two specimens in the Zeller collection, received under this name from Boll from 

 Texas, agree with my specimen compared with Clemens' type in the collection of the 

 American Entomological Society, Philadelphia, in 1871. 



Tischeria aenea F. & B. 



There is a single specimen of this species in the Zeller collection received from Boll 

 from Texas. 



Tischeria roseticola F. & B. 



I have specimens of this insect from the Zeller collection, and from Monsieur 

 Eagonot received from Texas from Boll, and am indebted to Dr. Riley for a third ex- 

 ample bred from rose. 



BEDELLIA Stn. 

 Bedellia somnulentella Z. 



This species, already recorded from North America by Clemens on Stainton's author- 

 ity [Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., I, 147-9 (1862)— Stn. Tin. N. Am., 189-91], is very widely 

 distributed, occurring in Australia and New Zealand as well as in Europe. I have 

 received it from Belfrage from Texas, and have myself met with it on McLeod Creek, 

 Siskiyou County, Cal., at the end of July, 1871. 



(To be continued.) 



GENERAL NOTES. 



A RHIZOCOCCUS ON GRASS IN INDIANA. 



January 22, of the present year, Director Stockbridge, of the Indiana 

 Experiment Station, placed in my hands a number of egg sacs, seeming 

 to be identical with those mentioned in Insect Life, Vol. I, p. 345, 

 from Dakota, and loc. cit., p. 385, from Nova Scotia. These were given 

 Director Stockbridge by Mr. James Powers, of Lexington, Scott County, 

 Ind., and were attached to blades of dead grass, the dried remains of the 

 female being in most cases still attached to the anterior end of the sac. 

 A week later the sacs were placed on growing plants of timothy and 

 blue-grass, and on February 17 the leaves of these grasses, and also the 

 surface of the soil in the pot containing them, were alive with minute, 

 active, yellowish coccids, having much the color and appearance of 





