mentioned by Mr. William Saunders, and a good account of the 
Character and amount of its injuries was given, together with a 
description of the results of some experiments made upon it with 
hellebore. This article also contains a description of the larva, and \ 
additional notes on its life history. ' I 
In the transactions of the State Horticultural Society of Illinoi| 
for 1877 Mr 0 B. Galusha relates his discouraging experience 
with the’pest in Illinois; but Prof Biley gives the fullest account, 
of the species yet published, m his last (ninth) report as State 
Entomologist of Missouri. This last article includes descriptions and 
life histories of all stages, and figures of all except the egg, together 
with notes on distribution, and injuries to the strawberry, and briefl 
suggestions of remedies. > J 
Full summaries of previously ascertained facts were published int 
the Eighth Keport of this office (1878); and in the Transactions oft 
the State Horticultural Society of Illinois, for the year following,j 
Miss Emily A. Smith records her observations on this species m 
strawberry fields in Central Illinois, expressing a doubt of the occur-, 
rence of more than one brood, at least m this latitude. The ravage?, 
of the larva in New Jersey are briefly mentioned m the American 
Entomologist for 1880 (p. 109); and in 1881, another general account 
of the species, with some personal observations, was given in th(l 
Horticultural Transactions of our State Society for 1881. In tnd 
first Beport of Prof. Liptner, as State Entomologist of New Yorlj 
(1832), the species is merely mentioned as one of those susceptibly 
to poisoning by hellebore. In the Transactions of the State Hortij 
cultural Society oi Iowa for 1882, Prof. Herbert Osborn relates thj 
results of some experiments upon it with arsenical poisons, an 
Miss Alice B. Walton notes the occurrence of the species m nei. 
beds early in the season, but remarks that, tor some unexplainc 
reason, the second brood did not appear. Finally, a compilec 
illustrated article on this species,- taken chiefly from Biley sflint 
Missouri Beport, was published in the Transactions of the Mississip] 
Valley Horticultural Society for 1888. 
Besides the above, the usual number of republications, more (j 
less full, of the original observations of Biley, Smith, French, an 
others, have appeared in the agricultural and horticultural papers! 
in the Beports of the United States Department of Agncultu 
(1867 and 1878); in the American Naturalist (Vol. VII, p. 524);: 
the Annual Beport of the United States Geological Survey (187 
p. 796); in a report on the Injurious Insects of Vermont, by lrc 
G. H. Perkins; in Psyche (II, 97); and in the Tenth Beport fro 
this office (pp. 64, 65 and 68). 
description. 
Imago. This is a four-winged insect, with the wings shaped mu 
like those of a bee, but provided with a greater number of trai 
verse veins. The body is black, with an interrupted brownish ba 
on either side of the abdomen. The head is transverse, ink 
punctured, widely but not deeply channeled at the sides of t| 
ocelli, from the nasus to the summit. The edge of the napus< 
moderately crenate, and a ridge extends down its middle. 1| 
