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to attack the crop as soon as the plants appear above ground and continue then- 

 attack until the plants are knee-high or even somewhat taller. They bore into 

 the ouler wall of the stalk immediately below the surface of the ground, making 

 a large, ragged opening, and destroy the tender growing point or " heart," 

 upon which this beetle appears to feed especially. This results in the wither- 

 ing of the central roil of leaves, the other leaves retaining their freshness for 

 a considerable longer period. 



The eggs are laid during the early summer, chiefly during June, and are de- 

 posited singly or in groups of three or four in the ground wherever the beetles 

 happen to be feeding. They hatch in about two weeks and reach full growth 

 in about two months, two weeks being passed in the pupal stage. The adults 

 appear about the middle of September and soon go into hibernation, there being 

 but one generation a year. Observations of its hal)its show that one of the 

 most promising methods for controlling the beetles is to avoid maintaining pas- 

 tures for indefinite periods or allowing any part of the farm to grow up as 

 waste land. The control measures are here summarized by the author as 

 follows : 



" Eliminate all old pastures or waste land, especially low, moist areas, and 

 drain such lands thoroughly. Pasture hogs in waste or pasture lands that can 

 not be conveniently drained and cropped. Plant corn early, say about April 

 20 for tidewater Virginia and earlier for more southerly localities. Give 

 liberal applications of barnyard manure or commercial fertilizers whenever 

 practical. Employ children or cheap labor to collect and destroy the beetles 

 when a field first shovN's injury. Do not allow corn to follow sod if possible 

 to avoid it. Plow sod land in late summer and early fall in order to destroy the 

 pupae of the rough-headed cornstalk beetle." 



A list of the Japanese and Pormosan Cicadidse, with description of new 

 species and genera, S. Matsxjmura (Trans. Sapporo Nat. Hist. Soc, 6 (1917), 

 No. 3, pp. 186-212). — The author finds that in Japan and Formosa there are 59 

 species representing 28 genera, of which 14 species and 6 genera are new. 



Honeybees in relation to horticulture, B. N. Gates [Trans. Blass. Hart. Soc, 

 1917, pt. 1, pp. 71-88). — This lecture, delivered before the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society on February 24, 1917, deals with pollination, the need of honey- 

 bees in the setting of crops, bees for the horticultui'ist, fruits and vegetables 

 pollinated by bees, securing and maintaining bees, alleged injury to fruit by 

 honeybees, injury to cultivated flowers, and spraying v. beekeeping (E. S. R., 

 35, p. 662). 



Thirty-seventh annual report of the Beekeepers' Association of the Prov- 

 ince of Ontario, 1916 (Ann. Rpt. Bee-Keepers' Assoc. Ontario, 1916, pp. 62, figs. 

 5). — The proceedings of the association are reported. 



Notes on the Eg'yptian honeybee, L. Gough {Bui. Soc. Ent. Egijptc, 9 

 {1916), No. 1. pp. 25-32). — These notes relate to the bionomics of Apis fasciata. 



Foul brood of bees; its recognition and treatment, H. Garhan (Kentucky 

 Sta. Circ. 17 (1917), pp. 99-106, figs. 3).— This is a popular .summary of informa- 

 tion. 



Life history of the larval forms of Adelura gahani n. sp., a braconid para- 

 site of phytomyzid larvae, G. de la Batjme-Pluvinel (Arch. Zool. Expt. et 

 G4n., .55 (1916), No. 3, pp. 47-59, pi. 1, figs. 3; ahs. in Jour. Roy. Micros. Soc, 

 No. 2 (1917), pp. 216, 217).— An account is given of the life history of the in- 

 ternal parasite of a phytomyzid larva which mines in the leaves of Ancolias 

 (Aquilegia), described as new under the name Adelura gahani. 



Description of a new hymenopteran (Anteris nepse) parasitic on the eggs 

 of Nepa, C. Fekeiere (Arcli.. Zool. Expt. et Gen., Notes et Rev., 55 (1916), No. 4, 



