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extending westward to Montesano. Most of the strawberry fields of 

 this region are infested. In the region immediately east of Seattle, 

 where the insect first entered the State fifteen years ago, the berry 

 industry has been taken over almost entirely by Japanese who shift 

 their fields as the weevils kill their plants. . . . Commercial 

 cranberry growing in this State, although in its infancy, has already 

 totaled over a million dollars invested. The principal trouble is 

 occasioned by the fire worm which, in its several generations, drops 

 the leaves, buds, blossoms and fruits, destroying not only the year's 

 crop but, by attacking the terminal buds, prevents the next year's 

 berries from forming. The growers certainly need advice and assist- 

 ance as much as any people can. They are enthusiastic but helpless 

 before this insect. They have equipped their bogs with piping and 

 have installed engine sprayers so as to be in a position to carry on 

 excellent spraying, but what is best and safest to use and just when 

 the spraying should be applied are unsolved problems for which the 

 growers are crying for professional advice, especially since this year 

 their avertable losses have amounted to hundreds of thousands of 

 dollars. . . . Perhaps the most valuable part of the summer's 

 expedition was the information received and given during the personal 

 visits with hundreds of farmers. The car enabled me to get off the 

 beaten tracks and to run down scores of reported insect problems. 

 With the camp outfit carried along we were made independent of 

 hotels and railroads and thus were enabled to reach into many a 

 region I never before have had the opportunity of visiting." 



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), including Arachnida and 

 Myriopoda. 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. 



All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their 

 first installments. 



The records of papers containing new species are all grouped at the 

 end of each Order of which they treat. Unless mentioned in the title, 

 the number of the new species occurring north of Mexico is given at 

 end of title, within brackets. 



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

 Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied En- 

 tomology, Series A, London. For records of papers on Medical Ento- 

 mology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 



1 Proceedings, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 3 The American Naturalist. 4 The Canadian Entomologist. 

 8 The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 The En- 

 tomologist, London. 10 Nature, Londmi. 11 Annals and Maga- 



