ENTOMOLOGY. 169 



Notes on entomology, A. Lehmaxx {Dcpt. Agr. Mysore State Bid. 1, 1902, j>p. 8). — 

 Brief general notes on tlie habit.s and life history of injurious insects. Directions are 

 given for collecting sj)ecimens and sending them to the department. 



Modern methods of studying and dealing ■with horticultural insect pests, 

 J. B. Smith {Proc. Xew Jersei/ State Ilort. Soc, 27 {1902), pp. 65-75, pis. ~^).— The 

 author gives a brief popular account of the progress of economic entomology with 

 reference to horticultural insects, and of various means which have been adopted for 

 controlling injurious insects by artificial and natural agencies. 



Insects and insecticides, C. P. Gillette ( Colorado Sta. Bid. 71, }>p. 40,Jif/s. 27). — 

 Tliis l)ulletiu contains a general account of the more important injurious insects in 

 Colorado and of the remedies which have been found most effective in combating 

 them. Notes are given on the insects injurious to the apple, pear, plum, cherry, 

 I)eacli, grape, currant, and strawlierry. 



The more important insects injurious to wheat in Missouri, J. M. Stedman 

 ( .Umouri State Bd. Agr. Rpt. 1902, pp. 55-141, figs. 4^) ■ — Notes are given on the dis- 

 tribution, habits, life history, and injuries caused, by chinch bug, Hessian fly, wheat- 

 bull) worm, wheat-straw worm, army worm, fall army worm, wheat-head army worm, 

 Feltia suhgothira, Peridroma saucia, Agriotes mannis, crane fly, wheat plant louse, 

 Angoumois grain moth, and grain weevil. The article constitutes a sort of compen- 

 dium of popular information concerning the most important insects in ^Missouri which 

 are injurious to wheat. 



Orchard enemies in the Pacific Northwest, C. V. Piper {U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 Fanners^ Bui. lo.i, pji. S9, fig. 1). — The Northwestern Pacific region is divided, from 

 a horticultural standpoint, into coast region, inland valleys, and inland uplands. 

 Brief notes are given on the conditions which affect orchards in the coast region, and 

 on the more common insect and fungus enemies of apple, pear, cherry, plum, and 

 ])rune. In the inland valleys the chief enemies to horticulturists are said to be San 

 Jose scale, codling moth, plant lice, peach-twig borer, peach mildew, and pear Ijlight. 

 In the inland uplands the chief enemies are codling moth, San Jose scale, pear lilight, 

 and apple scale. Notes are given on the value and method of preparation of lime, 

 sulphur, and salt wash; kerosene enmlsion; Paris green; London purple; arsenic and 

 lime; arsenic, soda, and lime; whale-oil soap and quassia; Bordeaux mixture; and 

 ammoniacal solution of copper carbonate. A special discussion is given to San Jose 

 scale, codling moth, peach-twig borer, western pulvinaria, woolly aphis, peach-leaf 

 blister-mite, black spot apple canker, apple scab, pear scab, brown rot, pear blight, 

 and crown gall. 



Principal insects liable to be distributed on nursery stock, N. Banks ( U. S. 

 l)ej)t. Agr., Division of Entomology Bui. 34, n. ser., pp. 40, figs. 43) . — This bulletin is in 

 response to a resolution passed by the official horticultural inspectors for the United 

 States requesting this Department to prepare and publish a bulletin treating of 

 insects injurious to nursery stock. The species which are discussed in the l)ulletin 

 include peach lecanium, oyster-shell bark-louse, scurvy bark louse, San Jose scale, 

 Putnam's scale, cherry scale, walnut scale, greedy scale, grape scale, peach scale, rose 

 scale, woolly apple aphis, black peach aphis, apple plant lice, plum plant louse, 

 cherry aphis, pear-tree psylla, buffalo tree-hopper, apple-tree tent caterjiillar, fall 

 webworm, brown-tail moth, leaf crumpler, white-marked tussock moth, gypsy moth, 

 cankerworms, peach-tree borer, peach-twig borer, bagworm, round-headed apple- 

 tree borer, flat-headed apple-tree borer, sinuate pear borer, fruit-tree bark beetle, 

 ap])le-twig borer, pear-leaf blister mite, codling moth, apple maggot, cherry fruit fly, 

 phnn curculio, quince curculio, pear midge, and other less important species. 



Treatment for San Jose scale in orchard and nursery, J. B. Smith [Pennsyl- 

 roniii Dept. Agr. Bid. 90, pp. .13, pis. 2, figs. 5). — A general discussion is presented of 

 the problems connected with the injurious action of this insect, including its history 

 in Califorv''-'. introduction and sjiread in the Eastern United States, life history, food 



