CONTENTS. V 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Page. 



The grouse in health and in disease 146 



Twenty-sixth report of the state entomologist, 1910, Felt 146 



Guide to the insects of Connecticut 147 



A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria, French 147 



Contributions to the knowledge of insect pests, Silvestri 147 



Insect enemies of the fig in Brazil and their control, von Ihering 147 



The enemies of medlar (Mespilus), Noel 147 



The insect enemies of Sulla, De Stefani 147 



The life history of the walking-stick, Severia 147 



The effects of parasitic castration in Membracidse, Matausch 148 



The California Christmas-berry tingis, Pemberton 148 



American Psyllidse, III, IV, Crawford 148 



A new species of Aleyrodes living on the olive, Silvestri 149 



Aphis hrassicas and some of its parasites and hyperparasites, Martelli 149 



Two Rhopalosiphum species and Aphis pulverulens n. sp., Gillette 149 



Host index to California plant lice (Aphididse), Essig. 149 



Aphididae of southern California, VI, VII, Essig 149 



The natural enemies of the citrus mealy bug. III, IV, Essig 149 



Locomotion of certain young scale insects, Quayle 149 



Notes on Coccidse, VI, VII, Essig 149 



The parasites of Mytilaspis pomorum, Voglino 149 



Grasserie in silkworms, De 149 



The leopard moth as a pest of apple nursery stock, Britton 150 



Note on the cork-colored orange tortricid (Platynota rostrana), Sasscer 150 



The egg-laying habits and emergence of adult of Sanninoidea exitiosa, Cory 150 



Rhopalomyia grossularix n. sp.. Felt 150 



Fruit flies and other insects attacking fi-uits-in New South Wales, Gurney 150 



Transmission of disease by native blood-sucking insects, Schuberg and Kuhn. . 150 



The development of Trypanosovia gambiense in Glossina palpalis, Bruce et al. . 150 



Experimental transmission of trypanosomes by glossines, Bouet and Roubaud. . 151 



Experimental transmission of trypanosomes by glossines, Bouet and E,oubaud . . 151 



Report on a recent addition to the insect fauna of the West Indies, Fredholm. . 151 



An enemy of the coconut palm in Samoa, Gehrmann 151 



Variations in diet among xylophagous Coleoptera of the Bostrichidse, Lesne. . . 151 



A preliminary contribution to the biology of Phytonomus variabilis, Martelli. . . 151 



Guide to bee keeping in British Columbia, Todd 151 



Foul brood among bees, Han-is 151 



Notes on Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new genera and species, Girault. . . 152 



A new Sigalphus from Dacus olese, Szepligeti 152 



Two new braconids from Brazil, Szepligeti 152 



Notes on peach and plum slug {Caliroa [Eriocampoides'] amygdalina), Cushman. 152 



Note on eradication of ticks by the starvation method, Laws 153 



Notes on the red spider attacking cotton in South Carolina, Wilson 153 



The efficacy of glass traps for the capture of insects, Truelle 153 



The use of saponins in the preparation of insecticide emulsions, etc., Gastine.. 153 



The use of sodium cyanid, Essig 153 



Insecticides and insect control, Quayle 154 



[A pest inspection act in Colorado] 154 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Deterioration of eggs as shown by changes in the moisture content, Greenlee. . 154 



Concerning the extractive material in beef kidney, Bebeschin t 1 54 



The nutritive effects of beef extract, Thompson, Caldwell, and Wallace 155 



Fisheries of the United States, 1908 155 



Is baked bread sterile? von Fenyvessy and Dienes 155 



Studies in nutrition. — I, Utilization of proteins of wheat, Mendel and Fine 155 



Studies in nutrition. — II, Utilization of proteins of barley, Mendel and Fine. . 155 



[Rice in relation to beriberi, in] epidemic dropsyin Calcutta, Greig_ 155 



Hemolytic action of rice fat and a note on hemolysis of fatty acids, Shimazono . . 156 



Baking experiments with potato flour, Nagel 156 



Concerning apple constituents, Thomae 156 



Studies of citron, Hartcl and Kirchner 157 



