752 EXPEEIMENT STATION RECORD. 



year jueutiou is uiiule of injury (o velvet beans by Anlicarsia yemmatilis; the 

 the attack of camphor buds by (Jryptothrlps floridcnsis (see E. S. R., 30, p. 357) ; 

 defoliation of bay {Persca sp.) by Trichostibas parvnla; etc. 



Insect records. — Miscellaneous notes by officers of the division of ento- 

 mology (Ayr. Jour. Union So. Africa, 8 (WL't), No. 1, pp. 70-78, pjss. 3).— The 

 several papers here presented include one on the gall on Aloe transiaalensU, 

 caused by an Eriophyes mite, by B. B. Ilardenberg (pp. 70-72) ; The False 

 Codling Moth (Enannonia batraehopa) with Particular Reference to Its At- 

 tack upon Acorns, by A. Kelly (pp. 72-75) ; An Interesting Larval Habit of 

 the Pepper Tree Caterpillar (Bonibucomorpha bifasoia), by J. C. Faure (pp. 75, 

 76) ; etc. 



Notes on the Hymenoptera Trichogrammatidee and Mymaridae, A. A. 

 GiBAULT (Oanad. Ent., 46 (1914), No. 9, pp. 327-330).— Mention is made of 

 Anagrus armatus as having been reared from egg clusters of Delphax sacchari- 

 vora in sugar cane leaves, Aphclinoidca scmifuscipennis from egg clusters of a 

 leafhopper, and Ufens niger from leafhopper eggs in sugar cane, all at Rio 

 Piedras, P. R. Tricho^ramma niimitum is reported to have been reared from 

 eggs of the sugar cane borer at Santa Lucrecia, Vera Cruz; Donna, Tex.; 

 New Orleans, La.; Bridgetown, Barbados; Georgetown. British Guiana; in 

 Trluid-'ul : and in Porlo Rico. 



[Worlc with cranberry insects in 1913], H. J. Franklin (Massachusetts 

 ISta. Bui. 150 (1914), PP- 49-58). — This is a more detailed report of the work 

 than that previously noted (E. S. R., 31, i). 453). 



The spanworm previously referred to has been determined as Epelis trun- 

 cataria faxonii. In addition to the cranberry it has been found feeding on the 

 bearberry {Arctostaphiilos uva-ursi). The parasitic enemies of cranberry 

 pests thus far identified are Carcelia (Exorlsta) pyste, Phytodletus vulgaris, 

 and rUnpla conquisHor, which attack the dry bog fireworm (Peronea minuia) ; 

 Phanerotoma tibialis and Microhracon dorsator, which attack the cranberry 

 fruit worm; Ichneumon extrematatis and Phoroccra (Euphorocera) clari- 

 pennis, which attack the spanworm (C'gmatophora sulphurea) ; Winthemia 

 quadripustulata, which attacks the false army worm (Calocampa nupera) ; 

 and Exorista (Tachina) robnsta, which attacks the bud worm. 



Cockroaches and ants as carriers of the vibrios of Asiatic cholera, M. A. 

 Barbek iPhiUpplnc Jour. So/., Sect. B, 9 (1914), No. 1, pp. 1-4)- — Experimental 

 evidence of the transmission, vitality, retention of virulence, and longevity of 

 the vibrio in the alimentary canal of the common cockroach (Periplaneta 

 ameHcana) is here presented. Feces containing cultures were exposed to 

 starved roaches which devoured them greedily and the organisms were demon- 

 strated In the feces from 6 to 79 hours after ingestion. " Cholera vibrios in 

 cockroach feces will survive on human food at least 16 hours after discharge 

 from the insect, and cholera vibrios in human feces will survive, in competi- 

 tion with numerous other bacteria, on food at least four days. There is no 

 loss of virulence for guinea pigs in cholera vibrios after 29 hours in the intes- 

 tine of the cockroach.'' 



In experiments in which ordinary red ants (Monomorium latinode) were fed 

 cholera cultures the organisins were recovered from their crushed bodies eight 

 hours afterwards. 



The coccobacillus of the locust, F. d'Hebelle (Ann. lust. Pasteur, 28 (1914), 

 No8. 3, pp. 280-328, figs. 4; 4, pp. 387-407, fig. i).— The first part of this paper 

 (pp. 280-296) consists of a somewhat detailed account of migratory locusts 

 and their geogra)ihical distribution. The second part (pp. 296-301) gives a 

 technical description of the coccobacillus (Coccobacillus acridiorum) afifectlnj: 

 them. The third part (pp. 301-328) describes the work with the coccobacillus 



