ABSTRACTS OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



AGRICULTURE. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insect Life, Vol. Ill, No. 4, lyTovEMBER, 1890 (pp. 131-178). — The 

 principal articles iu this number are : Eeport on a local outbreak of grass- 

 hoppers in Idaho, by L. Bruner; on the use of contagious diseases in 

 contending with injurious insects, by H. Osboru ; a new and remark- 

 able Encyrtid, is it parasitic ? by L. O. Howard ; notes on garden 

 insects, by F. M. Webster; some of the bred parasitic Hymenoptera in the 

 National Collection (continued); notes upon Epliestia interpunctella 

 (Hiibn.) Zeller, by W. H. Patton; notes upon some insects affecting 

 corn, by F. M. Webster. 



Insect Life, Vol. Ill, No. 5, January, 1891 (pp. 179-250).— This 

 comprises the proceedings of the second annual meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists, held at Champaign, Illinois, 

 November 11-13, 1890. A list of the papers read at this meeting was 

 l)ublished in Experiment Station Record, Vol. II, p. 269. 



DIVISION OF VEGETABLE PATHOLOGY. 



Journal of Mycology, Vol. VI, No. 3 (pp. 89-135, illustrated).— 

 This number includes the following articles : Experiments in the treat- 

 ment of plant diseases. Part I — treatment of black rot of grapes, by B. 

 T. Galloway and D. G. Fairchild; diseases of the grape in Western New 

 York, by D. G. Fairchild ; anthracnose of cotton, by E. A. South worth ; 

 perennial mycelium of the fungus of blackberry rust, by F. C. Newcombe 

 and B. T. Galloway ; field notes, by E. F. Smith ; the relationship of 

 Fuccinia and Phragmidium, Professor G. de Lagerheim ; notes on a new 

 pear disease {Thelephora pedicellata, Schw.), a disease of geraniums, 

 anthracnose of the hollyhock, Leptothyrium perichymeni, Desm., and a 

 a new UstUar/o from Florida ; reviews of recent literature ; new species 

 of Uredinew and Ustilaginece, by J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart ; notes 

 on certain Uredinece and Ustilaginew, by F. W. Anderson ; index to 

 North American mycological literature (continued), by D. G. Fairchild, 



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