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GENETICS. Joint session of the American Society of Zoologists 

 with the American Society of Naturalists for Symposium on Recent 

 Advances in the Fundamental Problems of Genetics. E. CARLTON 

 MAcDowEi.L, Carnegie Institution of Washington, The Influence of 

 Selection on the Number of Extra Bristles in Drosophila. (Amer. Soc. 

 Zool.) ROBERT K. NABOURS, Kansas State Agricultural College, Ele- 

 mentary Color Patterns and Their Hybrid Combinations in Grouse 

 Locusts. (Amer. Soc. Zool.) 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO PLANTS. W. E. BRITTON, Connecti- 

 cut Agricultural Experiment Station, Notes on Certain European and 

 Other Foreign Insects Occurring in Connecticut* and Further Notes 

 on Dipriou simile Hartig. (Notes on the distribution, injury, number of 

 generations and parasites of this European sawfly in Connecticut.) L. 

 HASEMAN, Columbia, Mo., An Investigation of the Supposed Immunity 

 of Some Varieties of Wheat to the Attack of Hessian Fly. (Brief 

 summary of the first year's work, including data collected from plots 

 of different varieties of wheat grown side by side, together with notes 

 on some chemical and physiological variations in the different varie- 

 ties.) GEORGE A. DEAN, Manhattan, Kansas, The Hessian Fly Train. 

 (Brief account of the Hessian fly infestation in the State; the organi- 

 zation of the special train ; how the train was conducted and the results 

 accomplished.) H. A. GOSSARD, Wooster, Ohio, County Co-operation 

 to Prevent Hessian Fly Damage. (Describes a method by which an en- 

 tire county was kept solidly in line, almost no one sowing until advised 

 by the county agent and Station Entomologist to do so.) H. C. SEV- 

 ERIN, South Dakota State College of Agriculture, The Life History, 

 Economic Importance and Control of the Carpenter Moth in South 

 Dakota.* S. B. FRACKER, Asst. State Entomologist of Wisconsin, The 

 Immature Stages of Schroeckensteinia, a new raspberry pest.* M. P. 

 SOMES, Mountain Grove, Mo., Some Insects of Solatium carolincnsc L., 

 and their Economic Relations. (Review of life history of certain in- 

 sects found on this weed and their development when transferred to 

 related economic plants.) GEORGE G. AINSLIE, Nashville, Tenn., Notes 

 on Crambidae. (Brief outline of the economic significance of Cram- 

 bidae and notes on the work carried on at Nashville.) WM. P. HAYES, 

 Manhattan, Kans., A Study of the Life History of the Maize Bill Bug. 

 (Distribution in Kansas, economic importance, life history and habits, 

 and methods of control.) R. W. HAKXKII, Agricultural College, Miss., 

 The Small Pink Corn Worm, Ratrachcdra rilcyi, in Mississippi. (Brief 

 notes on occurrence of this insect in Mississippi. It must be ranked as 

 a pest of considerable importance.) W. J. SCIIOENE, Blacksburg, V;u 

 The Economic Status of the Seed Corn Maggot, Fcyomyia fusciccps. 

 (Discussion of the food plants and the condition of the food attacked.) 

 -J. G. SANDERS, Madison, Wis., Records of Lachnostcrna in Wiscon- 



