ABSTRACTS OF rUBLlCATIONS OF TIIH IMTED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 



A(inirri;rn!E. 



DIVISION OF STATISTICS. 



Keport No. 85 (new series), June, 18U1 (pp. 241-.'^02).— This 

 incliules articles on the acreu<;e of cotton, wheat, oats, bailey, and rye; 

 the condition of these and other crops, including; fruit; ofiicial statistics 

 of foreij:;!! crops ; the ajjricnlture of Chili; lCur()i)ean crop report for 

 June; and the freight rates of transportation conijtanies. 



DIVISION OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insect Life, Vol. Ill, Xos. 1) and 10, June, 1801 (pp. 359-432).— 

 The princii>al articles in this double number are a Ileport of a Discus- 

 sion on the Gyi)sy Moth [Ocneria dispar) at a conference held at Bos- 

 ton, Massachusetts, March 4, 18D1; abstract of a paper on the liavages 

 of Liparis {rsilura) monacha in Germany and Means of Defense, by 

 B. K. Fernow, read before the Entomological So(;iety of ^Vashin<^ton, 

 INIarch 5, 18'Jl ; A New Scale Insect {Levanlum pniinosum, n. s[).) from 

 California, b}' D. W. Coquillett ; Notes on the Habits and Earlier 

 Stages of Cryptophasn nnipunctata, Don., in Australia, by 11. Edwards; 

 Steps Toward a Bevision of Chambers's Index, with Xotes and Descrip- 

 tions of Now Species (continued), by Lord Walsingham ; Description 

 of Certain Lepidopterous Larva' {rholisora hayhiirstii, Triptotjon impe- 

 rator, Or<jyia dcfinita, and Apatda tritona), by 11. C Dyar. 



Bulletin No. 23. 



Observations and experiments in the practical work of 

 the Division (pp. 83). — This includes the reports of the six permanent 

 field agents of the Division for 1800, a brief summary of which was 

 l)ublished in the Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for ISOO, pp. 

 201-204. 



Nchraslca insects, L. Bruncr (pp. 0-18). — Brief notes on the i>revalence 

 in Nebraska in 1890 of the corn root worm [Didbrotiva lotu/iconi is), cut- 

 worms, corn ear worm {Heliothis annifjcra), codling moth {Carpocapsa 

 pomonella), green-striped maple worm {Anisota rubicunda), and locusts 

 or grasshoppers ; and a list, with brief notes, of sixty-four species of 

 insects which have attacked sugar beets in Nebraska. Spraying with 

 arsenites or kerosene emulsion is an effective means of repressing most 



of these insects. 



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