1918.] ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 557 



Monecphora Mcincta (pp. 38-43), particularly to parana grass (Panicum nu- 

 midianum) in Camaguey, is reported upon. A list is given of the insects and 

 diseases of economic importance in Cuba arranged according to their host 

 plants (pp. 52-66), and an account of the occurrence of the spiny citrus white 

 fly {Aleurocanthus woglumi) in Cuba, including a list of host plants (pp. 67- 

 77), references to which have been previously noted (E. S. R., 38, p. 462; 38, 

 p. 158). 



[Entomological investigations] (Hawaii. Sugar Planters' Assoc, Rpt. Expt. 

 Sta. Com., 1917, pp. 6-11). — This is a summary of the entomological work at 

 The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Station. Particular attention was given to work 

 with the natural enemies of the Anomala beetle. 



[Hawaiian insects] (Proc. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, 3 (1916), No. 4, pp. 270-272, 

 274. 276-280, 2S7, 288, 292-291 296-368, figs. 61).— The papers here presented 

 include the following: Notes on Two Species of Hawaiian Diptera (Brachy- 

 deutera argentata and [Homalomyia] Fannia pusio) (pp. 270-272), Clerada 

 apicicornis Sucking Blood (p. 274), and Webbing Clothes Moth (Tineola Msel- 

 liella) Predacious (p. 274), by J. F. Illingworth ; Notes on a Peregrine Bethylid 

 (Epyris extraneus n. sp.) (pp. 27&-279) and Notes on Dictyophorodelphax mira- 

 hilis (pp. 279, 280), by J. Bridwell ; Notes on the Life History of Attagenus 

 plebius, by J. F. Illing\vorth, an account of which has been previously noted 

 (E. S. R., 37, p. 567) (pp. 287, 288) ; Description of a New Species of Spalangia, 

 S. philippinensis, a parasite of the horn fly (Lyperosia irritans) introduced 

 from the Philippines in 1914, by D. T. Fullaway (pp. 292-294) ; Exhibition 

 of "Types" of Some Recent Hawaiian Lepidoptera [41 species], by O. H. 

 Swezey (pp. 296, 297) ; New Hawaiian Delphacidee, including descriptions of 

 1 genus and 15 species and subspecies new to science (pp. 298-311) and 

 Homopterous Notes, including descriptions of 26 new species (pp. 311-338), 

 by F. Muir; Refei-ence Tables of the Hawaiian Delphacids and of Their Food 

 Plants, by W. M. Giffard (pp. 339-348) ; and Economic Aspects of our 

 Predacious Ant (Pheidole megacephala) , by J. F. Illingworth (pp. 349-368). 



Annual report for 1916 of the zoologist, C. Wabburton (Jour. Roy. Agr. 

 Soc. England, 77 (1916), pp. 222-234, figs. 4).— This consists in large part of a 

 report upon the occurrence of some of the more important insects. 



British insects and how to know them, H. Bastin (London: MetJiuen & Co., 

 Ltd., (1917), pp. 129, pis. 12; rev. in Rev. Appl. Ent., Ser. A, 5 (1917), No. 7, p. 

 S27). — This is a small text-book comprising a popular introduction to the study 

 of British insects. 



Insect and arachnid pests of 1916, R. S. MacDougall (Trans. Highland and 

 Agr. Soc. Scot., 5. ser., 29 (1917), pp. 116-152, figs. 25).— This reports observa- 

 tions of the occurrence, etc., of the more important insect and arachnid pests of 

 the year (E. S. R., 36, p. 252). 



Imported insect pests, C. Vrooman (Country Gent., 82 (1917), No. 43, pp. 

 12, IS, figs. 8). 



Grass and clover insects, C. R. Crosby and M. D. Leonard (N. Y. State Col. 

 Agr., Cornell Ext. Bui., 20 (1917), pp. 20, figs. 18).— A popular account of the 

 more important grass and clover insects. 



ChortopMla cilicrura and Thereva sp., pests of rye in Silesia, Germany, 

 Obebstein (Ztschr., Pflansenkrank., 26 (1916), No. 5, pp. 277-280; ahs. in Inter- 

 nat. Inst. Agr. [i2owe], Internat. Rev. Sci. and Pract. Agr., 7 (1916), No. 10, 

 pp. 1558, 1559). — In Silesia during the period 1914-15 it was observed that 

 over a vast area the leaves of rye were completely devoured by C. cilicrura. 

 Corn was attacked, but not to the same extent as rye, and lupines that followed 

 rye were also attacked. Another pest, an undetermined species of the dipterous 

 genus Thereva, is also mentioned as attacking rye. 



