464 EXPKRIMEKT STA'I'IO.N I'.KCORD. 



Descriptions of some new Tachinidae, ('. II. T. Tounsknd (Ann. Eiit. Hoc. 

 Aiiirr.. ^ {UK)!)), So, .'/, /*/(. ^'i.i-,i. '>()). — Six t;on('ni ( rii;isin()i)hapi. C.vclotapliyrs, 

 Paragerniaria, Euiuasicera, RileyeDa. and Knc-olatoria) and S sjior-ios aro Ihm'o 

 descTil>p<l as now to scionco. 



The species described as new are riia.siiioiilKit/d (iiilcniKiIi.s, reared in Wiscon- 

 sin from Diaphrromera fcmorata; P. meridio nulls, a leaf-ovipositing form bred 

 from a walking stick (Anisomorpha biipresioidcs) at Cutler, Fla. ; Cyclotaphrys 

 anscr, reared from importations of brown-tail moth from Simferopol, Kvissia ; 

 TacJiina japonica, reared from importations of Porthetria from the vicinity of 

 Tokio, Japan; Si-W'op'i hcmerocampa', a larvijiositing form reared from the 

 white-marked tussock moth; Paragermaria autumnalis, a leaf-ovipositing form, 

 collected at Melrose Highlands, Mass.; Eumasciccra coccidcUa ; and CordyU- 

 gantcr scptcntrionalis from Maryland. 



Stegomyia fasciata in the French Sudan, G. Bouffard {BuL Soc. Path. Ejot.. 

 1 (1908). Xo. 8, pp. Jf5J,-J,58, fig. 1; ahs. in Bui. Inst. Pasteur, 7 (1909), No. 5, p. 

 229). — An account of the occurrence of the yellow fever mosquito. 



Some common insects injurious to truck crops, W. Newell and A. H. Rosen- 

 FELD (Crop Pest Com. La. Circ. 27, pp. 93-131, pi. 1, figs. 21). — The more im- 

 portant insect enemies of the truck crops in Louisiana are considered in this 

 circular. These are the imported cabbage worm, harlequin cabbage bug, onion 

 thrips, striped cucumber beetle, twelve-si)otted cucumber beetle, Colorado potato 

 beetle, potato stalk borer, sweet potato weevil (Cylas formicarius), bollworm, 

 destructive pea aphis (Xectarophora plsi), bean leaf beetle (Ceratoma tri- 

 furcata), Argentine ant, wireworms, and cutworms. Remedial measures in- 

 cluding cultural methods, fertilizers, insecticides, and fumigation are lirietly 

 discussed. 



Insect enemies of tobacco, Z. P. Metcalf (N. C. Dcpt. Agr. Spec. BuL, 1909, 

 Oct., pp. 72, fig.s. 56). — This bulletin is stated to be based on correspondence, 

 a study of the literature on the subject, and observations and experiments con- 

 ducted largely in Granville County. 



Following a brief general account of the injury to tobacco by insects, their 

 control is taken up under the headings of preparation of seedbed and soil, 

 rotation of crops, destruction of suckers and weeds, and spraying. Where 

 arsenicals are used, the last spraying should be done at least 2 weeks and jiref- 

 erably 3 or 4 weeks before harvesting. Summarized accounts are given of the 

 more important pests of the crop, which for North Carolina are considered to 

 be the hornworms, tobacco flea beetle, budworms, and cutworms. Insects 

 mentioned as occasionally injurious to tobacco are the gx-ouse locust (Tettigidca 

 lateralis), ])ith worms, tobacco leaf miner, or si)litworm (PhtJiorim(Fa oper- 

 culella), margined blister beetle, little brown-burrowing cricket (Anorogryllus 

 muticus), and spined tobacco bug ( Euehistus scrrus). The lesser insect ene- 

 mies mentioned are grasshoppers (Melanoplus fcrmur-ruhrum and Trimcro- 

 tropis citrinu), katydids, cabbage looper, tree crickets ((Ecautlni.s spp.), and 

 corn root worm (Diabrotica 12-punctata). The cigarette beetle and the drug- 

 store beetle (Sitodrepa panicea), are the only si)ecies recorded as injuring 

 stored tobacco in the State. 



A bibliography of sugar-cane entomology, G. W, Kirkaldy (Hawaiian 

 Sugar Planters" Sta., Div. Ent. Bui. 8, pp. 13). — This bulletin consists of 2 

 parts, first, a list of works arranged under authors (i>ii. 9^1), then, a prelim- 

 inary list by oi'ders, of the insects, spiders, etc., occurring in sugar-cane fields. 

 Four hundred and twenty-six species rei»resenting 315 genera are listed. 



Notes on additional insects on cultivated pecans, G. W. Herriok and R. W. 

 Harned (Jour. Econ. Ent., 2 (1909), Vo. //. />/>. 29.3-29.5) .—P>rief notes on in- 

 sects affecting ijccuus, which liuve come to the author's utteutiou since the pub- 



