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tiers attacked, and suggests remedies. The larvae is described as entering the twig 

 La June or July from an egg laid on the outside and making a winding passage 

 downward within the stem beneath the bark for a distance of from 60 to 80 cm. or 

 more. lie notes that his observations are at variance with those made independently 

 and at about the same tunc by Dr. Puton as given by M. Gitton. (See, above.) 



According to Dr. Puton, the galleries are from 25 to 30 cm. in length, nearly 

 straight, and tin- insect attacks only isolated trees; while according to the observa- 

 tions of the author both isolated trees and those in hedges are attacked. 



Further, Dr. Puton found the insect attacking indifferently the pear and tin- apple, 

 while the author found them only in pear trees, although apple trees were growing 

 near by. Dr. Puton also found the insect attacking Sorbus aucuparia. 



The remedy of cutting off and destroying affected twigs is recommended 



Contributions to a monograph of the Aphids of Coniferae, I, N. CHLOLO- 

 DOVSKY (Beitrage zu finer Monograph ie dcr Coniferenlauae. St. Petersburg, 189h. pp. 61; 

 aba. Zobl. Centbl., 4 (1897), 13, pp. 453-455).— This forms the concluding (7th) chap- 

 ter of Part I of the monograph and deals with the genus Chermes and its relation- 

 ships. Keys arc given. 



Chermes strobilobius Kalt. divides into 2 species; one, C. strobilobius, living on the 

 larch, the other, C. lapponicus, upon the fir. The last is divided into 2 subspecies, 

 C. lapponicus pra>cox, the galls of which open about the middle of June, and C. lap- 

 ponicus tardus, the galls of which open at the end of July. 



Report of the entomologist, ('. EL Feenaxd (Massachusetts Hatch. Sta. Rpt. 1896, 

 pp. 85-87). — During the year somewhat extended studies were carried on on the 

 spruce gall louse ( Chermes abietis). Some time was also spent studying the various 

 insects affecting cranberries, the elm leaf beetle, and the San Jose" scale. Tbe cur- 

 rant span worm (Diaaticiis ribearia) is reported as stripping blueberry bushes, and the 

 European scale, Planchonia quercicola, noted as injuringthe golden oak in Worcester, 

 Massachusetts. 



Some injurious orchard insects, E. E. BOGUE (Oklahoma Sta. Bui. 26, pp.23, figs. 

 aj), — The author briefly and popularly describes — noting the common remedies in 

 each case— tin- following insects : The apple leaf crnmpler (Phycia indiginello), codling 

 moth (Curpocnpsapomonella), apple tree tent caterpillar (Clisiocampa americana). bag- 

 worm (Thyridopteryx ephemeraformia), flat beaded apple tree borer (Chrysobothris 

 femorata), round beaded apple tree borer (Saperda Candida), twig girdler (Oncideres 

 cingulatus), apple tree pruner (Elaphidion villosum), apple twig borer (Amphicerns 

 bicaudatus), the fruit bark beetle or shot hole borer (Scolytus ruguloaus), plum cur- - 

 culio (Conotrachelua nenuphar), peach tree borer (Sannina exitiosa), the bumble flower 

 beetle (Euphoria inda), spotted vine chafer ( Pelidnota punctata), rose chafer (Macro- 

 daetylus subspinosus), and the grapevine leaf roller (Desmia maculalis). The first 

 insect is mentioned as being one of the most common insects in the orchards of 

 Oklahoma. One man in 4 hours collected 1,584 cases from an orchard of 66 trees, 

 of which 79 per cent were affected. 



To the recorded food plants of the flat headed tree borer the Carolina poplar is 

 added; and, while the spotted vine chafer is noted as not usually a troublesome 

 insect, complaint is mentioued of its eating the foliage of tbe grape. 



The subject of spraying apparatus is briefly discussed and directions given for 

 making Bordeaux mixture and kerosene emulsion. 



Further notes on sections of Augochlora, C. Robertson (Canadian Ent., 29 

 (1897), No. 7, p. 176). 



An orchard scale, Aspidiotus biformis, T. D. A. Cockerell (Card, and Eon si. 

 10 (1897), No. 478, p. 158). — The author mentions the places where he has found the 

 scale and briefly speaks of its destructive features. 



Description of the larva and pupa of Aulax nabali, T. W. Fyles (Canadian Ent., 

 29 (1897), No. 4, pp. 79, 80). 



Contributions to coccidology, II, T. D. A. Cockerell (Amir. Nat., 31 (1897), No. 

 367, pp. 588-592).— breeding and other notes on 17 species. The new species Dacty- 



