CONTENTS. V 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



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A treatise on zoology, edited by Lankester 246 



Treating seed corn to protect it from burrowing animals, Sf:hefl'er 246 



The crow as a menace to poultry raising, Cole 246 



A plea for the i)rotection of our birds, Bruner 246 



Report on the spring migration of 1908, Stone 247 



[Bibliography for 1908]..^ 247 



Animal parthenogenesis, Doncaster 247 



Sex determination and parthenogenesis in phylloxerans and aphids, Morgan. . 247 



The Sphegoidea of Nebraska, Smith 247 



Some undescribed Scolytidse of economic importance, Stebbing 247 



Descriptions of new curculionid beetles of the tribe Anthonomini, Pierce 247 



Contributions to the study of Japanese Aphidid^e, I and II, Okajima .". . . 247 



Remarks on Indian scale insects (Ooccidie), III, Green 247 



Notes on Indian scale insects (Coccidae), Lefroy 247 



Gall midges of the goldenrod, Felt : 247 



British flies, Verrall 248 



The mouth parts of the solitary bees, Demoll 248 



Notes on western Orthoptera; with description of one new species, Caudell. . . . 248 



Report of the State entomologist, Hitchings 248 



Twelfth report of the State entomologist, Washburn 248 



Report of the entomologist, Bruner 249 



[Insect pests], Swenk, Smith, and Bruner 251 



Observations of the season [in Ohio], Gossard 251 



The army worm, Garman 251 



Soil sterilizing; Bordeaux mixture and poisons for tobacco seed beds, llorne. . 252 



Sixth report of the chief inspector of nurseries and orchards, Evans, jr 252 



[Report of the] department of entomology, Taylor 252 



Report of the past year's work of the State board of entomology, Worsham 252 



Spraying with lime-sulphur wash. A fungus parasitic on San Jose scale, Lewis. 252 



The red scale and its injury to oranges in Spain, Aymes and Trabut 253 



In combating fruit-tree bark beetles, Wilson 253 



The olive fly in Calabria, Del Guercio 253 



[A tea pest]. Fetch 253 



The raspberry byturus {Bi/iurus unicolor), Goodwin 253 



The raspberry flower beetle {Byturus unicolor), Gossard 254 



Experiments with remedies for the grape Eudemis, Capus and Feytaud 254 



A new parasite of the grapevine pyralid, Sicard 254 



The pine-cone gall fly, Seitner 254 



The jjreparation and application of insecticides and fungicides, Houser 254 



The biting of man by squirrel fleas, McCoy 254 



The transmission of Trypanosoma leivisi by fleas and lice, Nuttall 255 



Relation of blood-sucking invertebrates to trypanosomes of vertebrates, with 



note on Crithidia ctenopthalmi, Patton and Strickland 255 



Crocodiles and tsetse flies, Minchin 255 



Glossina palpalis 255 



Entomological technique, Langeron 255 



On the structure of " Haller's organ " in the Ixodoidea, Nuttall et al 256 



The structure of the spiracles of Hxmaphy salts punctata, Nuttall et al 256 



The jjresence of an anticoagulin in Argas persicus, Nuttall and Strickland 256 



The Spinjcheetes: A review of some border-line organisms, Fantham 256 



The chub and the Texas horn fly, Moodie 256 



External parasites on poultry in South Africa, Humphries 256 



Mating experiments with bees. Miller 257 



Silkworm rearing as a popular pursuit, Keleher. 257 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



The influence of sodium benzoate on the nutrition and health of man 257 



Is food containing benzoates injurious to health? Smith 260 



Effects on health of long-continued sodium sulphite, Lehmann and Treutlein. . 260 



The effect of some so-called preservative salts on chopped meat, Boehncke 261 



The effect of cold storage upon domestic fowls, Bissell 261 



Tests on cold storage of poultry 262 



The cold-storage industry in Ilruguay, Salmon 262 



Protein coagulation and the heat shortening of animal tissues, Meigs 262 



