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First annual report of the superintendent for suppressing' the gipsy and 

 brown-tail moths, A. H. Kirkland {Aim, Hpt. tiupt. Suppressing Gipsy and 

 Brotcn-tail Moths [J/ass.], 1 (1905), pp. 161, pis. 17). — The work conducted 

 in 1905 following the appropriation in May of funds for suppressing these pests 

 is reported. 



As against 34 cities and towns covering an area of 359 square miles of terri- 

 tory infested by the gipsy moth in 1900, 124 cities and towns covering an area 

 of 2,224 square miles were found to be infested in 1905. The work with natural 

 enemies is considered at length, the report of the consulting entomologist, 

 C. H. Fernald, the report of the work with insect enemies of these pests by 

 L. O. Howard, and the report of work with fungus parasites of the brown-tail 

 moth, by G. E. Stone, being incorporated. 



Second annual report of the superintendent for suppressing the gipsy 

 and brown-tail moths, A. H. Kirkland (sliin. Rpt. Supt. Suppressing Gipsy 

 and Brown-tuil Moths [Mass.], 2 {1906), pp. 110, pis. 13).— The work conducted 

 during 1906 is here reported at length, including the report of the consulting 

 entomologist. C. H. Fernald, the report of the work with insect parasites by 

 L. O. Howard, and an account of the pathology of the browu-tail moth derma- 

 titis, by E. E. Tyzzer. 



Third annual report of the superintendent for suppressing the gipsy 

 and brown-tail moths, A. H. Kirkland (Ann. Rpt. Supt. Suppressing Gipsy 

 and Brown-tuil Moths [Mass.], 3 (1907), pp. 228. pis. 13).— The details of the 

 work of supressiou during the year 1907 and investigations of natural enemies, 

 including a report on parasites by L. O.. Howard, are considered at length. 

 In an appended special report on importing parasites are incorporated the 

 individual reports made by American and foreign entomologists following per- 

 sonal investigations of the work under way. The entomologists thus reporting 

 are C. P. Lounsbury, R. Heymons, R. Blanchard and G. Horvath, W. W. Frog- 

 gatt, A. Severin, J. Fletcher, E. M. Ehrhorn, E. P. Felt, H. A. Morgan, H. 

 Osborn, S. A, Forbes, J. B. Smith, and M. V. Slingerland. 



The Angoumois grain moth, T. B. Syjions (Maryland. Sta. Bui. 137, pp. 7, 

 figs. 2). — A popular account of the life history, habits, and methods of control 

 of this pest of stored grain, which is generally disseminated throughout 

 Maryland. 



Mosquitoes of Brazil, A. G. Peryassxj (Os Culicideos do Brazil. Rio de 

 Janeiro, 1908, pp. 407, illus.; rev. in Bui. Inst. Pasteur, 7 (1909), No. 3, pp. 

 13,5, 136). — Detailed descriptions are given of 131 species and 5 subspecies of 

 Brazilian mosquitoes. Eight genera of the subfamily Anophelinre are repre- 

 sented by 14 species. The distribution of mosquitoes in Rio de Janeiro, obser- 

 vations on the larvjTe of 30 species, experimental studies on the biology of 

 Stegoniyia faseiata, and other data are included. 



The work is accompanied by numerous plates. 



Chemical observations with the meat fly Calliphora, E. Weinland (Biol. 

 Centbl., 29 (1909), No. 18, pp. 56-',-577, figs. 3).— A study of the biochemical 

 processes going on during the cycle of development of the Calliphora. 



Further observations on the development of trypanosomes in Glossinae, 

 Kleine (Dent. Med. Wchnschr., 35 (1909), No. 21, pp. 92Jf, 925; ads. in Sleeping 

 Sickness Bur. [London], Bui. 7, jyp. 2Ji9, 250). — This is in continuation of ex- 

 periments previously noted (E. S. R., 21, p. 785). 



Sixty-six days after the flies had fed on iiafected animals the surviving 20 

 were placed on sheep, calves, and goats, one to an animal, and a calf and a goat 

 became infected after an incubation interval of 11 days. In another experiment 

 in which 147 freshly caught Glossina palpalis were fed for 2 days on 2 sheep 

 infected with trypanosomes and then for the successive periods of 4 days on 



