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bee-keeper made before a notary public or other officer having a seal 

 that the honey used in making the candy used in the queen mailing cage 

 has been diluted and boiled in a closed vessel; beneficial insects, when 

 shipped by departments of entomology in agricultural colleges and 

 persons holding official entomological positions ; other live insects, when 

 addressed to the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Depart- 

 ment of 'Agriculture, to departments of entomology in State agricul- 

 tural colleges, and to persons holding official entomological positions, 

 and dried insects and dried reptiles may be sent in the mails when 

 so put up as to render it practically impossible that the package shall 

 be broken in transit, or the persons handling the same be injured, or 

 the mail bags or their contents soiled. 



8. Nursery stock, including field-grown florists' stock, trees, shrubs, 

 plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions and buds (which may carry in- 

 jurious insects) may be admitted to the mails only when accompanied 

 by a certificate from a State or Government inspector to the effect 

 that said nursery stock has been inspected and found free from in- 

 jurious insects. 



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FRANK H. HITCHCOCK, Postmaster General. 



Entomological Literature. 



COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. 



Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- 

 tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and 

 Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; 

 but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- 

 ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. 

 The numbers in Heavy- Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered 

 in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all 

 dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a 

 record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new 

 North American form. 



For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 



4 The Canadian Entomologist. 7 U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Bureau of Entomology. 8 The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine, London. 9. The Entomologist, London. 14 Proceed- 

 ings, Zoological Society of London. 38 Wiener Entomologische 

 Zeitung. 44 Verhandlung, K. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesell- 

 schaft in Wien. 50 Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 68 

 Science, New York. 86 Annales, S'ociete Entomologique de 

 France, Paris. 89 Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 97 Zeit- 

 schrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 119 Archiv fur 

 Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 153 Bulletin, American Musuem of Nat- 

 ural History, New York. 161 Proceedings, Biological Society of 



