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Economic zoology (Ann. Rpt. Bd. Set. Advice India, 1911-12, pp. 160-171). — 

 The first part of this paper by H. Maxwell-Lefroy deals with agricultural ento- 

 mology ; the second part by A. D. Imms with forest entomology. 



The life story of insects, G. H. Carpenter (Cambridge, England, and Neto 

 York, 1913, pp. 134, P'- i, fiff^- ^3). — This is a popular account. 



Report of the entomologist of the Arizona Commission of Agriculture 

 and Horticulture for the year ending June 30, 1913 (Ari;:. Com. Agr. and 

 Hort. Ann. Rpt., 5 (1913), pp. 11-^8, pis. 3, figs. 11).— The first part of this 

 report (pp. 11-32), by A. W. Morrill and O. C. Bartlett, relates to the inspection 

 of plant, fruit, and seed importations; the second part (pp. 33-48), by A. W. 

 Morrill, consists of notes on the important insects of the year. 



Forty-fourth annual report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 1913 

 (Ann. Rpt. Ent. Soc. Ontario, Jf4 (1913), pp. 131, figs. 58). — ^Among the more 

 important papers here presented are Insects of the Season in Ontario, by L. 

 Caesar (pp. 49-53) ; The Immature Stages of the Tenthredinoidea, by A. D. 

 MacGillivray (pp. 54-75) ; Adaptation in the Gall Midges, by E. P. Felt (pp. 

 76-82) ; Chrysomelians of Ontario, by F. J. A. Morris (pp. 83-94) ; and Insect 

 Galls, by A. Cosens (pp. 97-104). 



Tuberculosis in insects, S. Metalnikoff (Conipt. Rend. Soc. Biol. [Paris}, 

 76 (191Jf), No. 2, pp. 95, 96; abs. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 2 (1914), Ser. B, No. 3, 

 pp. 53, 5-^).— In earlier papers (E. S. R., 20, p. 186; 26, p. 250) the author has 

 shown that the tubercle bacillus when injected into the larva of the bee moth 

 (GaUeria mellonclla) is quickly destroyed and the larva not affected. Further 

 experiments have shown that this destruction of the bacillus is due probably to 

 a lipolytic ferment in the body of the larva. 



Experiments have also been carried on with other insects, particularly with 

 cateiToillars of Achrwa griseUa, which also feed upon the wax in beehives. 

 Bacilli of the human type when injected in large numbers were all destroyed 

 within a few hours. Tests of other types showed that the bovine type is 

 quickly destroyed but the fish type cause the infection and death of the 

 larvae at ordinary room temperature. When the temperature was raised to 35° 

 C. the injected fish bacilli were destroyed. 



Insect damage to Russian crops (Izv. Glav. Uprav. Zemleusgrois. i Zeml. 

 [St. Petersb.}, No. 30 (1913); abs. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 1 (1913), Ser. A, No. 11, 

 pp. 458, 4o9). — The insects mentioned as the source of injury include the Hes- 

 sian fly, the wheat chafer (Anisoplia austriaca), the larvae of Phlyctwnodes 

 sticticaUs which damages the seeds of vetches, maize, beets, etc., aphids, thrips, 

 wireworms, and cutworms. 



The fi.ght against Lachnus persicae, termites, and ants by means of car- 

 bolineum, D. Smirnov (Turkest. Selsk. Khoz [Tashkend], No. 8 (1918), pp. 

 783-786; abs. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 2 (1914), Ser. A, No. 2, pp. 73, 7^).— The 

 author reports excellent results from the use of carbolineum in combating 

 plant lice (L. persicw), termites (Eodotermes turkestanicus), and ants (Cam- 

 ponotus maculatus turkestanicus) , the carbolineum acting as a repellent. 



Tables for the identification of insect enemies of spruce and fir, R. Koch 

 (Tabellen zur Bestimmung schddlicher Insekten an Fichte und Tanne nach den 

 Frassbeschddigungen. Berlin, 1910, pp. VIII +112, figs. 150). — These tables are 

 based upon the feeding habits of the insects. 



The insects attacking cork stoppers, J. Feytaud (Rev. Vit., 40 (1913), Nos. 

 1039, pp. 565-568, pi. 1, figs. 2; IO4O, pp. 598-603, figs. 4; 1045, PP- 738-740).— A 

 summarized account of the more important enemies of cork stoppers, which 

 represent the Coleoptera, Isoptera, and Lepidoptera and means for their con> 

 trol. The tineids are said to be the most important pests. 



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