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2229. Riley, O. Y. The potato-stalk borer. <Rural New-Yorker, 20 
October, 1883. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 78-79. 
Answer to letter of S. C. R.; description, habits of, and means against Gortyna 
nitela ; means against Paria aterrima, Graphops pubescens, and other larvae 
of Chrysomelidce injurious to the roots of strawberry-plants. 
2230. [Riley, C. V.] Recent advances in horticultural entomology. 
<Rural New-Yorker, 20 October, 1883, v. 42. S.-b. No. 42, pp. 
79-81. Reprint: <Proc. 19th Sess. Amer. Pomol. Soc., 1884, p. 
45. <Trans. Wise. State Hortic. Soc., 1886, v. 17, p. —. 
Report of address delivered; discussion of measures recommended for adop¬ 
tion to prevent the ravages of insects injurious to horticulture, especially 
of Carpocapsa pomonella and Conotraclielus nenuphar ; correction of state¬ 
ments in regard to the oviposition of Saperda bivittata [= Candida'] and ? Bern- 
hex marginata ; advance in knowledge of the life-history of Aphididce and 
in the development of machinery for the application of poison sprays to 
plants ; relative value of the principal insecticides. 
2231. Riley, 0. Y. On a gall-making genus of Apionince. <Bull. 
Brooklyn Ent. Soc., October, 1883, v. 6, pp. 61-62. Separate: 
<Brooklyn, N. Y., 1883,2 pp. 
List of North American gall-making Coleoptera; description of Podapion 
n. g. [p. 62] and of the gall and imago of P. gallicola n. sp., found on 
twigs of Pinus inops ; probable life-habits, inquilines, and parasite of this 
species. 
2232. Riley, 0. Y. Report of the Entomologist. <Ann. Rept. [U. S.] 
Commissioner Agric. for 1883, pp. 99-180, 13 pi. Separate: 
<Washiugton, 31 October, 1883, pp. 5+pp. 99-180-fpp. 7,13 pi. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Introduction. . . 99 
Scope and limitations, 99—Cabbage insects, 99—Lesser locust, 99— , 
Protection of fruit and shade trees, 99—Office force, assistants 
and agents, 99—Observations and report on insects injurious to 
forest-trees, by Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., 99—Special report on insects 
affecting the orange, by H. G. Hubbard, 99—Work of agents, 100— 
Monographs in preparation, 100—Commission sent to Brazil to 
study certain insects, 100—Publication of third report of the 
United States Entomological Commission, 100—Publication of 
special bulletins, 100—Correspondence and work of the division, 
101—The illustrations to the report, 101. 
' Silk-worm notes. 101 
Legislation, 101—California State Board of Silk Culture, 101—Pre¬ 
miums offered in California, 101—Home culture, 102—Guaranty 
of egg supply, 102—Woman’s Silk Culture Association of Cali¬ 
fornia, 102—California Silk Culture Association, 102—Reports 
from correspondents of the division, 102-104—Issue of “Silk 
Culture Directory,” 104—Establishment of school in New Jersey, 
105—Organization of Southern Silk Industrial Association, 105— 
A new machine patented, 105—Report on the future of silk culture 
in the United States, by United States Consul Peixotto, of Lyons, 
France, 105—Silk culture by the Mennonites, 106—Work at the 
Department, 106. 
