IV CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Oat smut and its prevention, Appel and Gassner 552 



Physiology of the parasite of sore shin of cotton, Balls 552 



"Black root" disease of cotton, Smith and Lewis 552 



A new alfalfa disease, Paddock 558 



Potato leaf curl 553 



Soil treatment of tobacco plant beds. Selby ^ 554 



Diseased apples and melons frem the Cape of Good Hope, Massee 554 



Pear rust, Giissow 554 



Development and prevention of gray rot of grapes, Guillon 554 



Some diseases of palms. Butler 555 



A new disease of cultivated veronicas 555 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY ENTOMOLOGY. 



Revision of the skunks of the genus Spilogale, Howell ,555 



Monthly liulletin of the division of zoology. Surface 55G 



Entomological section, Howard 550 



Expedition for study of plant pathology in Kajuerun and Togo, Busse 556 



List of publications of the Bureau of Entomology, Mabel Colcord 55(5 



The slender seed-cvi'ii ground-beetle, Webster 556 



Lita occllatclla on sugar beets, Giard 556 



The potato moth. French 557 



Thrips or black fly. Froggatt 1 557 



The melon aphis. Chittenden 557 



Spraying to control the San Jose scale. Smith ^ 557 



Soluble oils as destroyers of San Jose scale. Gossard 557 



Insect i)ests affecting fruit trees, Lounsbury ; 557 



A plague of Slocroddctyliis mexicaniis in the valley of Mexico, Inda 557 



Caterpillar plagues, Ilerrex'a 558 



Caterpillar i)est of indigo in Behar, Lefroy 558 



Red slug caterpillar; a serious pest of the tea plant. Mann 558 



Production of golden pui»jp with ^'(lllrs.s(l urfini iind 1". io, Mensik 558 



Coloring matter of oak leaves and silk of tiatuniia yaina-ynai, Gautier 558 



Eggs of Sdiiiia cccropia, Pulvinaria innumeraMUs, and Culex pipiens, Davis 558 



Canniithi prUucida . 558 



A scale insect of the cocoanut palm, Fleutiaux 558 



The large larch sawfly (Neniatus erich-soni), Macdougall ■ 550 



The maple leaf-stem borer or sawfly. Britton . 559 



Constriction of twigs by the bag worm, von Schrenk 559 



The recently introduced dung fly parasite, Kotinsky 559 



The British woodlice. Webb and Sillem 559 



Ants. Knauer 559 



The ant, Escherich 559 



Harvest mites, or " chiggers," Chittenden 559 



Destruction of mosquitoes in houses with pyrethrum. Herrera 560 



Contributions to the study of silkworms, Toyama 560 



The length of the tongue of bees, Kulagin 560 



The respiratory organs of bees, Dyachenko 560 



The swarming of bees, Diatschenko 560 



The number of bees in a colony, Devauchelle 560 



Water for bees, Beuhne 561 



Evaporation from hives at night, Maujean 561 



Artificial comb foundation, Pincot 561 



Bacteria of the apiary, with sjiecial reference to bee diseases. White 561 



The brood diseases of bees. Phillips 561 



The enemies of bees, Caillas 561 



FOODS HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Food and nutrition, Bevier and Usher 562 



Modern diet 562 



The diet of the precibiculturists, Campbell 562 



The food of well-to-do classes, Biernacki 562 



Food and digestion in warm climates, Cantlie 562 



A diet with and without meat and a vegetarian diet, Bornstein 563 



