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young Thripidce, except that they were more robust. The larger portiou 

 of these young seemed to forsake the grass and wandered away, while 

 those that remained died in spite of every attempt to rear them. 



In a letter to Dr. Stockbridge, written February 18, Mr. Powers gives 

 the following interesting facts : The coccids occurred in spots, com- 

 prising the lower portions of about 5 acres of a low meadow, com- 

 posed of timothy and red top. The meadow was of three years' stand- 

 ing, having been preceded by a crop of wheat. Up to about February 

 1, the sacs had been observed in great abundance, but a visit to the 

 field on the 17th revealed the fact that all had disappeared — hatched, 

 Mr. Powers supposed. Other meadows in the neighborhood did not 

 appear to be affected. 



I have never observed this in Indiana myself, the only coccid found 

 by me being quite different, and affecting blue-grass, where it is not 

 uncommon in August. These occur about the base of the leaves near 

 the surface of the ground ; at least this is the only place I have found 

 them. They seem to belong to the genus Westivoodia, and I have ob 

 served what appears to be the same thing also on blue-grass in Illinois, 

 and understand that Mr. Pergande has also found it on the same plant 

 about Washington.— [F. M. Webster, March 10, 1890. 



FURTHER NOTE ON THE EGYPTIAN MEALY BUG. 



On page 256 of the current volume we published a note upon this in- 

 sect, based upon information kindly sent us by Mr. D. Morris, of the 

 Koyal Kew Gardens, England. We notice by the March number of 

 the Entomologists 1 Monthly Magazine that Mr. Douglas has found it nec- 

 essary to erect a new genus for this insect, and that he calls it Crossoto- 

 soma wgyptiacum. 



INDIAN RHYNCHOTA. 



Mr. E. T, Atkinson, of Calcutta, has favored us with the second part 

 of his Catalogue of the Insecta of India, which comprises a bibliographic 

 and synonymical list of the family Capsidae. We have seldom seen a 

 work of this kind which displays such thorough and painstaking work. 

 It is much more extensive than we had anticipated, covering one hun- 

 dred and eighty odd royal octavo pages of brevier type. There is a full 

 bibliographic list, an index to genera and an index to species. 



TWO PARASITES OF THE GARDEN WEB-WORM. 



In our article upon Eurycreon rantalis, commonly known as the 

 " Garden Web-worm " in our annual report for 1885, the only parasite 

 mentioned was a Tachina fly, reared by Professor Popenoe, at Manhat- 

 tan, Kans. In 1888 this insect was again abundant in parts of Colo- 

 rado, Arkansas, and Texas, and we reared an Ichneumonid in early 



