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is followed by accounts of the round-headed apple tree borer (pp. 28-40). the 

 fruit tree bark beetle (pp. 41-48), and plant lice (pp. 49-06) by E. A. Back. 



List of insect pests of cultivated plants in southern India, T. B. Fletcher 

 (Dept. Agr. Madras Note No. 1 {1913), pp. 15). — This paper lists 275 insect 

 enemies of crops in southern India. 



The enemies of chicory (Cichorium), P. Noel {Bui. Lab. Regional Ent. Agr. 

 [Rouen], No. 3 (1913), pp. 5, 6; ahs. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 1 {1913), Ser. A, No. 7, 

 p. 256). — A list is given of the insect pests of varieties of this plant. 



Tobacco insects in Hawaii, D. T. Fullaway {Hawaii Sta. BuL 34 {1914), 

 pp. 20, figs. 9). — This paper supplements the information contained in the 

 bulletin on tobacco insects by Van Dine, previously noted (E. S. R., 17, p. 785). 

 It deals with the distribution, life history, habits, means of control, and natural 

 enemies of the more important tobacco pests. The principal insects dealt 

 with are cutworms, splitworms, pod borer, hornworm, flea beetle, and cigarette 

 beetle. 



The larviB of 8 of 35 species of Noctuidse known to occur on the island are 

 said to be commonly found in cultivated fields, Caradrin<i reclusa being the 

 species most commonly found in the tobacco fields in Hawaii, The parasites 

 of cutworms are said to be fairly efficient. The injury caused by the splitworm 

 in the field is said to be slight on well-conducted plantations, only the two 

 or three lower leaves being injured. It is. however, a source of injury in the 

 seed bed. The braconid Chclonus blackburni and the ophionid Limnerium 

 blackbumi are important parasitic enemies. 



The cotton bolhvorm {Helioihis obsoleta), known in Hawaii as the tobacco 

 pod borer, does not attack corn or cotton on the island, and is not generally 

 considered a serious pest of tobacco. The tobacco hornworm is extremely 

 uncommon and has never been observed by the author on tobacco. The tobacco 

 flea beetle does not seem to be much of a pest on the commercial plantations, 

 except late in the growing season, but in neglected tobacco it becomes very 

 numerous. 



The minor pests briefly mentioned Include Plusia chalcites, Amorbia emi- 

 gratella, Pseudococcits citri, P. virgatus, Siphanta acuta, Pulvinaria psidii, 

 Elimcca appendiculata, Xiphidium varipenne, Nysius delectus, and Xyleborus sp. 



The bulletin concludes with a brief account of the cigarette beetle. 



Grasshopper control work in western Kansas, G. A. Dean {Jour. Eoon. 

 Ent., 7 {1914), No. 1, pp. 67-73, pis. 2). — In describing the work as carried on 

 in western Kansas the author estimates that the farmers fed almost a thousand 

 tons of poisoned bran mash to grasshoppers in 1913. A close examination of 

 the grasshopper situation made at the close of the season convinced the ento- 

 mologists and farm demonstration agents that there were fewer grasshoppers 

 in western Kansas than for many years. It is stated that from 60 to SO per 

 cent of the grasshoppers were killed by the poison bran mash and the re- 

 mainder were so left to the mercy of the parasitic and predaceous enemies that 

 only a few escaped. 



Thrips injury to tobacco, H. Jensen {Jaarb. Dept. Landb., Nijv. en Handel 

 Nederland, Indie, 1911, p. 248, pi. 1). — This article relates to a leaf injury of 

 the tobacco plant in Java by Thrips sp. 



A little-known lantern fly injuring corn (Peregrinus maidis), W. A. 

 Thomas {South Carolina Sta. Bui. 174 {1913), pp. 7, figs. 3).— During the 

 course of investigations of the cotton root louse, conducted in cooperation with 

 the Bureau of Entomology of this Department, for the past 3 years, observa- 

 tions have been made of P. maidis, which is becoming recognized as a serious 

 pest of late corn in the Pee Dee section of South Carolina. 



