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The grains have been seriously attacked by joint worms (Cephus 

 sp.), the Hessian fly and the wheat midge in Ohio, and from New 

 York to South Carolina ; the first named insects have been very 

 abundant in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan also, while in Oregon aphids 

 have been the chief pests of wheat and oats. 



Several new species of insects attacking cotton have appeared near 

 Victoria, Texas, this year, increasing the total over previous years. 

 The red spider [Tctranychus gloveri] has done serious damage to 

 cotton in South Carolina and Georgia, while T. tclariae has been 

 destructive to fruits and beans in California. 



Grasshoppers have been a great plague from Wisconsin to Cali- 

 fornia and Texas. The species mentioned are chiefly Melanoplus 

 differentiates and devastator. "In southwestern Kansas. . .in some fields 

 the dead grasshoppers [from the use of poisoned bran mash] are so 

 thick that the stench is very bad. In some oat fields where the grass- 

 hoppers have come in from surrounding pastures and meadows, they 

 are so abundant as to actually give the field a reddish tint, especially 

 in the evening when they crawl up the stalks to roost." 



Cutworms are credited with "an immense amount of damage" 

 in South Dakota, and have been troublesome eastward to New 

 Jersey and also in Texas. 



Widespread injury by the banana root borer in Florida has led to 

 co-operation by the State Plant Board and the Federal department 

 for its extermination. Castor beans, now of importance as a war 

 crop, have been seriously damaged in the same State by army 

 worms. A research station of the department has been established 

 in the Panama Canal Zone on account of the known occurrence 

 of the black fly there and in Cuba, constituting a menace to citrus 

 fruits in the Gulf States. 



A curious case of injury to hogs is reported from the Russian 

 River Valley, California, where tent caterpillars have been unusu- 

 ally bad, especially in prune orchards. Hogs have been killed by 

 feeding on the caterpillars, their stomachs being completely filled 

 with the silk of the tents formed into dense balls. 



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, Philadelphia. 4 The Canadian En- 

 tomologist, London, Canada. 5 Psyche, Cambridge, Mass. 8 

 The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 The Ento- 



