574 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Capture plants for insect pests ((lard. Citron., 3. ser., 22 {1897), No. 544, p. 346). 



Artificial increase, or dividing colonies ( Card. Chron., 3. ser., 22 {1897), Nos. 549, 

 p. 5 ; 550, p. 19). — The author states the methods successfully employed by himself. 



Notes on New England Acridiidee III. CBdipodinae VII, A. P. Morse 

 {Psyche, 8 (1897^, Xo. 257, pp. 111-114). — Psinidia fencstralis, Trimerotropis maritima, 

 and Circotettix verruculatus. Structural and general biological features are noted. 



Insect life, J. II. Comstock {New York: I). Appleton $ Co., 1897, pp. 349, Jigs. 

 296). — An introduction to nature study and a guide for teachers, students, etc. 



Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Japan, H. vox Schoenfeldt {Jahrb. Nassau. 

 Ver. Naturkunde, 50 {1897), pp. 97-144).— The third part. 



Preliminary handbook of the Coleoptera of Northeastern America, R. Hay- 

 ward (Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 5 {1897), No. 3, pp. 133-149). 



A new Aleurodes on Rubus from Florida, T. D. A. Cockerell {Jour. New York 

 Ent. Soc., 5 {1897), No. 2, pp. 96, 97). — The pupse of this insect (Aleurodes ruboruni) 

 were found abundant on the under side of the leaves of a cultivated Rubus at Lake 

 City, Florida, by A. L. Qnaintance. The adult insect emerged about the middle of 

 February. Mr. Cockerell supposes that the insect is a native of Florida and not an 

 introduced form, as thought by its discoverer, Mr. Qnaintance. It is distinguished 

 from the European. .(. rubi, by the black legs and spotted wings of the latter. It 

 can not be A. rubicola, which has a yellow body and immaculate white wings and in 

 which the pupa is not black. 



Notes on the transformations of the higher Hymenoptera, II, A. S. Packard 

 {Jour. New York Ent. Soc, 5 {1897), No. 2, pp. 77-87, figs. 3). — Descriptions of the 

 larva' and pupae of Pobistes canadensis, Halictns parallel us, H. ligatus, Andrena ricina, 

 and Nomada imbricata. 



Insect notes, W. E. Britton (Connecticut State Sta. h'pt. 1896, pp. 234-245, pis. 6). — 

 The report notes the insects that attracted most attention during the year. Canker- 

 worms {Paleacrita vernata and Anisopteryx pometaria), army worm (Leucania uni- 

 puncta), currant stem girdler ( Phylloecns flaviventris ), fruit bark beetle i Scolytus rugu- 

 losus), Hcliothrips astri, and asparagus beetle {Crioceris asparagi) are mentioned. 

 Ordinary remedies are recommended. 



Life histories of the New York slug caterpillars, VII-IX, H. G. Dyar {Jour. 

 New York Ent. Soc, 5 {1897), No. 1. pp. 1-14, pis. 2).— The author discusses Toriri- 

 cida fascial a (food plants — wild cherry, white birch, barberry, dogwood, chestnut, 

 sugar plum, oak, linden, maple, beech, hornbeam, hickory, and huckleberry), 

 Adoneta spinuloides (food plants — willow, oak, wild cherry, barberry, linden, witch 

 hazel, chestnut, beech, and sour gum (Nyssa) ), and Euclea indetermina (food plants — 

 various kinds of low brush, also wild cherry, oak, hickory, anil barberry). 



Carnivorous slugs, M. Webster {Gard. Chron., 3. ser., 22 {1S97), No. 566, p. 314).— 

 The slugs {Testacella haliotidea) have often been found by the author swallowing 

 earthworms entire. 



Carnivorous slugs, D. R. Dixon {Gard. Chron., 3. ser., 22 (1897), No. 568, p. 

 348). — It is stated that a slug was fouud in the act of devouring an earthworm. 



Odonate nymph from a hot spring, I). S. Kellicott (Jour. Cincinnati Soc Nat. 

 Hist , 19 (1897), pp. 63-65 ; abs. in Jour. Hoy. Micros. Soc. [London}, 1S97, pt. 4, 

 p. 280). — Nymphs were taken from water that was near the boiling point. 



The buffalo tree hopper, C. L. Marlatt ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Division of Entomology 

 Circ. 23, 2d ser., pp. 4, figs 2). — A brief popular account is given of the appearance, 

 habits, life history, food plants of and injuries from Ceresa bubal us. The remedies 

 and preventives recommended fall under the head of clean culture and trap plants. 



Injurious insects and the use of insecticides, F. W. Sempers (Philadelphia: 

 TV. A. Burpee $ Co., 189n, .?. ed., pp. 216, pi. 1, figs. 1S4).—A compilation from the 

 bulletins of this Department and other sources. 



Two insect pests, S. de L. Van Rensselaer Strong (Gard. and Forest, 10 {1897), 

 No. 490, p. 278). — Notes on the butternut woolly worm. It is stated to be ordinarily 

 rather rare in New Jersey, and the larva- yield readily to an arsenical spray or a 



