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The chinch bug, EL. Garman (Kentucky Sta. Bui. 74, pp. 45-70, fig. 1, 

 plg M 7).__The bulletin discusses the distribution and injury of the chinch 

 bug in Kentucky, its characteristics, habits, etc, and methods of treat- 

 ment. The meadow lark and quail are noted as the two birds known 

 to teed on the chinch bug. Toads are also said to be useful in destroy- 

 ing this insect. Chinch bug fungi are discussed at considerable length, 

 and methods of growing and using fungi are given. Among other 

 remedies the following are discussed: Barriers, deep plowing, early 

 planting, fertilizers, planting timothy with wheat, and the use of fire, 

 coal oil, steam, etc. 



A bibliography of the more important articles on the chinch bug is 

 given, with notes on the scope of each article. 



The periodical cicada (Cicada septendecim), or so-called seven- 

 teen-year locust, in Ohio, F. M. Webster {Ohio Sta. Bid. 87, pp. 37- 

 68, figs. 11, pi. 1). — The structure, life history, habits, injuries, and 

 natural enemies of the cicada are given. The summary of the bulletin 

 is, in part, as follows : 



" The principal injury done by the insect is by puncturing the twigs and limbs 

 of trees and shrubs and the canes of raspberry and blackberry bushes. 



" There are four well-marked and strong broods in Ohio during the 17-year period. 



" The adults are destroyed by the English sparrow and to a small extent by other 

 birds. 



" Kerosene emulsion and pyrethrum mixed will destroy the newly emerged adults. 



" Hogs root out and destroy the pupa', and domestic fowls destroy the adults. 



"It is best not to prune trees, especially young orchards, the season preceding an 

 occurrence of the Cicada, and it is also better to forego planting during the same 

 period." 



List of original types of species in the superfamily Jassoidea, C. P. Gillette 

 'Colorado Sta. Bui. 43, pp. 30, 31). — This is a list of the species of Jassoidea now in 

 the collections of the College of Agriculture and Experiment Station. "The list is 

 for the information <>f students in entomology and also for the purpose of correcting 

 a statement in regard to 'true type specimens' made by C. F. Baker in an article 

 entitled 'Notes on the Genus Deltocephalus' and published in the current volume of 

 Psyche, p. 114." 



A few new species of Deltocephalus and Athysanus from Colorado, C. P. 

 Gillette (Colorado Sta. />'<//. 43, pp. 23-29, figs. 4). — The following new species are 

 described: Deltocephalus parvulus, D. cookei, D. blandus, D. labiata, 1>. atropuncta, 

 and Athysanus ornatus. 



Descriptions of new genera and species of the Geometrina of North Amer- 

 ica, G. D. HuLST (Canad. Ent., 30 (1898), No. 7, pp. 191-195). — Diaatictis benigna, 

 D. sericeata, Jubarella, a. g., J. danbyi, Spodoptera kunzei, Mthyctera lineata. Aids 

 masstosa, A. lallala, Selidosema configurata, S. lachrymosa, Cleora subaustralis, and C. 

 pedicellata. 



Two new species of Kermes from Kansas, E. E. Bogi'e (Canad. Ent., 30 (1898), 

 No. 7, p. 17'). — Kermes pubescens, on twigs and leaves of oak (Quereus macrocarpa and 

 Q. prinoides) ; reported also on Q. macrocarpa. It occurs very thickly on young twigs 

 and leaves. Kermes concinnulus on Q. macrocarpa, allied to K. cockerelli. 



Concerning the ovular envelopes of some of the Chrysomelidae, A. Lecaillon 

 (Arch. Anal. Micros., 2 (1SDS), No. 1, pp. 89-117, pi. 1). 



The development of the embryo of some Chrysomelidae, A. Lecaillon (Arch. 

 Anat. Micros., ..' (1S9S), No. 1, pp. 118-176, pi. 1). 



