158 EXPERIMENT STATION EECORD. 



Tlie monthly bulletin of the division of zoology, H. A. Surface {Penn. 

 Dept. Ayr., Mo. Bui. Div. Zool, 4 (IfJOli). Xos. 11. pp. 385-U^; 12, pp. 415-^50, 

 pis. 6). — Notes are given ou methods of destroying the cabbage root-worm and 

 San Jose scale. Remedies are also suggested for use in controlling codling moth, 

 cutworm, tent caterpillars, etc. 



On some injurious insects in 1906, R. S. Macdougatl {Trans. Highland and 

 Agr. Soc. Scot., .5. ser.. 19 il!)07), pp. 173-1S8). — Lampronia ruhlcUa on raspber- 

 ries may be best combated by cutting off and burning infested shoots. Rasp- 

 berr.v weevils are partly controlled by tbe cautious use of boiling water about 

 the canes. Protection may be afforded strawberries against the attacli of ground 

 beetles by the use of baited traps at night. 



In insecticide work against tbe currant gall mite the best results were oljtained 

 from dusting infested plants with a mixture of lime and sulphur. The author 

 found that grain weevils would remain alive for from 8 to 14 months in small 

 tubes partly filled with wheat. 



The natural history of Tapinostola musculosa, S. Mokrzecki (Ztschr. Wiss. 

 InsektenbioL, 3 (1907). Jo.s. 2, pp. 50-53; 3. pp. 87-92, figs. 6).— The caterpillar 

 of this moth attacks the stems of wheat, barley, rye, and other cereals, causing 

 at times serious losses. The insect passes the winter in the egg stage, and since 

 the eggs are deposited on stubble and volunteer grass and other plants in grain 

 fields, obvious remedies are to burn the stubble after harvest or to plow the 

 ground deeply-. 



A fight with climbing cutworms (Leucania unipuncta), W. W. Froggatt 

 (Agr. Gaz. \. S. Wales. 18 (1907). Xo. 3. pp. 2(15-268). — A description is given 

 of a serious outbreak of army worms in which good success was had from the 

 use of poisoned bait composed of bran and I'aris green. 



The periodical cicada in 1907, C L. ;Marlatt (T\ S. Dept. Agr.. Bur. Ent. 

 Circ. 89, pp. Jf, figs. 3). — This circular is published for the purpose of eliciting 

 information concerning the brood of periodical cicada which appeared in May 

 and June of this year throughout the southern States, east of Texas, except 

 Florida, and northward as far as Iowa and Illinois. 



The use of cloth barriers and hopperdozers in combating locusts, E. 

 DE B.\x6 (Com. Par. Agr. f.l/c.r/co], Cirr. 5G. jiji. 9. pis. 8). — A description of 

 methods adopted in combating the locust plague in Hungary. In this campaign 

 barriers were constructed of cloth and the locusts were gradually driven into 

 partly enclosed spaces in which they were easily captured. An account is also 

 given of various forms of hopperdozers used for the same purpose. 



Some insects injurious to truck crops. The asparagus miner. Notes 

 on the asparagus beetles, F. H. Chitte.nde.n" ( T . S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 

 66, pt. 1. pp. 10. figs. 2). — Agromgza simplex has been known as causing injury 

 to asparagus since ISOO. It is distributed from New England to Tennessee. 

 Notes are given ou its habits and life history. The larvse live under the epi- 

 dermis of the stems. In controlling this insect it is recommended that a few 

 volunteer asparagus plants be allowed to grow as a trap crop in the spring and 

 that these be later destroyed. It would also be well to pull up and destroy 

 infested plants in old asparagus beds in order to accomplish the destruction of 

 the second brood of flies. 



Some insects injurious to truck crops. The water-cress sowbug. The 

 water-cress leaf-beetle, F. II. Chittenden ( r. ,S'. l)(pt. Agr.. Bur. Ent. Bui. 

 G6, pt. 2, pp. 9-20. figs. 3). — An aquatic sowbug, belonging to the species Manca- 

 sellus brachyurus, is reported as causing great injury to water-cress in A'ir- 

 ginia. West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. According to some of the corre- 

 spondents of the Bureau it is practically impossible to control this pest by means 

 of insecticides alone. The best results are obtained by constructing the beds 



