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which may be artificially cultivated, and which when sown or 
sprinkled upon food of healthy insects produce diseases as a con¬ 
sequence. 
de la. Cour, J.JLi.—Sporendonem a; or the Fungus which is now 
so Prevalent among House-fiies. (Am. Monthly Micr. 
Journ., Jan., 1883, v. 4, p. 19.) 
Rehearsal of general facts concerning Empusa muscoe. 
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Osborn, Herbert. —An Epidemic Disease of Caloptenus differen - 
tialis. (Am. Nat,, Dec., 1883, v. 17, p. 1286; Bull. Iowa 
Agr. Coll., Dept. Ent., Aug., 1884, No. 2, p. 83.) 
Account of entomophthorous disease generally prevalent in cen¬ 
tral Iowa, affecting Caloptenus differentialis. 
Riley, C. V.—[Kemarks on an Epidemic Disease of Caloptenus 
differ entialis. ] (Am. Nat,, Dec., 1883, v. 17, p. 1287; Bull. 
Iowa Agr. Coll., Dept. Ent., Aug., 1884, No. 2, p. 85.) 
Riley surmises that insects died from insect parasitism, and that 
Entomophthora is a later development. 
Riley, C. V.—The Cabbage Plusia. (Rep. [U. S.] Commiss. Agr., 
1883, p. 121.) 
Fungous disease reported. Parasite described by Farlow as 
Botrytis rileyi. 
Riley, C. V.—Reports of Experiments, chiefly with Kerosene, upon 
Insects injuriously affecting the Orange-tree and the Cotton 
Plant, made under the Direction of the Entomologist. (U. S. 
Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. No. 1, p. 25.) 
Notice ot a fungoid growth on Parlatoria and Mytilaspis, in a 
report made by Joseph Voyle. 
1884. 
Burrill, T. J.—Experiments in Silk Culture. (Twelfth Report 
Board of Trustees Illinois Industrial University, p. 85.) 
Account of contagious disease of silkworm w T hich destroyed all 
but a few hundred of about 80,000 worms hatched for an experi¬ 
ment in silk culture. General discussion of flacherie of silkworm. 
Fletcher, James. —[Muscardine in Agrotis fennica.^ (Can. Ent. 
Nov., 1884, v. 16, p. 214; Fifteenth Ann. Rep. Ent, Soc. 
Ont., p. 21.) 
Destruction of great numbers of larvae of Aqrotis fennica by an 
Entomophthora. 
Forbes, S. A.—On a Contagious Disease of Caterpillars. (Trans. 
Ill. Hort. Soc., 1883, v. 17, p. 29) 
General article giving account of results of original observations 
and experiments. Describes experiments of Past eur with flacherie 
of silkworm. Gives an account of his own observations and ex- 
