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as being " weevily." The damage was due to the presence of the larvae of our com- 
monest Clothes-moth, Tinea biseliella. This is a new but not unexpected food for 
this species. 
A Plague of Locusts. — Mr. Erwin L. Horton reports a plague of locusts in 
Schuyler County, N. Y., during the past summer. He believes the species to have 
been the Red-legged Locust (M. femur-rubrum). Many of them were infested by the 
red mite (Trombidium locustorum). 
GENERAL NOTES. 
RECENT ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE U. S. NATIONAL 
MUSEUM. 
During October and November, 1893, there were published by the 
U. S. National Museum three important entomological bulletins, and 
separates of two other entomological papers from the Proceedings. 
The first to appear was Bulletin No. 44, u A Catalogue, Bibliograph- 
ical and Synonymical, of the species of Moths of the Lepidopterous 
Superfamily Noctuida3, found in Boreal America, with critical Notes," 
by John B. Smith. This is an elaborate and very useful catalogue, cov- 
ering 425 pages. It is not only bibliographical and synonymical, as 
stated in the title, but gives the exact geographical distribution of each 
species and indicates the place where the type is to be found. Useful 
comments by the author frequently follow under the head of each 
species, as also an index to the authors and works cited and a general 
index to species and genera. 
The second of the three publications is Bulletin No. 45, " Monograph 
of the North American Proctotrypidre," by William H. Ashmead. This 
is an elaborate publication, upon which Mr. Ashmead has been working 
industriously for a number of years. It comprises full descriptions of 
all the North American forms known to him, the very great majority 
of which are either in the collection of the National Museum or in Mr. 
Ashmead's private collection. Almost the only exceptions are a few 
species in the Berlin Museum. The volume covers about 470 pages 
and is illustrated by 18 plates, upon which are figured representatives 
of 143 genera, one plate being devoted to details of structure. The 
introduction to the Monograph comprises a consideration of the exter 
nal structural characters of the group, the habits of the perfect insects, 
an account of their transformations and life history, and their distri- 
bution, together with a running history of the previous attempts at 
classification. Careful tables of subfamilies and geiiera, as well as of 
species, are given. The publication of this Monograph gives American 
students an excellent start in an important group which has hitherto 
been almost entirely neglected. 
The third paper forms Bulletin No. 46, and is entitled " The Myria- 
poda of North America," by Charles Harvey Bollman, edited by L. M. 
