CONTENTS. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Page 



Insect pests 791 



Injurious insects - 791 



Injurious insects and other animals in Ireland* (i. 11. Carpenter 791 



Injurious and beneficial slugs and snails, F. V. Theobald 791 



Entomological department, R. A. Cooley 791 



Report of the nursery inspector for Wisconsin, C. Bues and E. P. Sandsten .. 792 



Practical results from combating agricultural pests, A. L. Herrera 792 



Insecticide experiments for 1904, J. B. Smith 792 



Report on scientific work in the field of entomology during 1900, R. Lucas... 792 



The metamorphosis of insert larvae, J. Dewitz 792 



Development of intestines in insects during metamorphosis, P. Deegener 791' 



Development of eye spots in larva' of Deilephila nerii, X. Y. Cuznetzov 793 



Common corn insects, J. M. Stedman 793 



The more important insect injuries of Indian corn, S. A. Forbes 793 



Some insect enemies of corn, H. B. Derr 793 



The cotton-boll weevil, F. Sherman, jr 793 



The cotton-boll weevil in Texas, E. D. Sanderson 793 



Cutworms, E. D. Sanderson 793 



The hop aphis (Phorodon humuli) , W. T. Clarke 793 



History of the sugar-cane leaf-hopper in Hawaii, R. C. L. Perkins 794 



Grasshoppers, E. D. Sanderson 794 



The control of locusts in alfalfa fields, E. A. Popenoe 794 



The asparagus fly 794 



The cabbage-root fl v 794 



The apple maggot, F. W. Card and A. E. Stene 794 



The pear-tree psylla and how to deal with it, G. E. Fisher 795 



The San Jose scale 795 



Fumigation for scale insects, C. P. Lounsbury 795 



The lime-sulphur-salt wash, F. Sherman, jr 795 



A dangerous pest spreading 795 



Two plum weevils, E. D. Sanderson 795 



Biology of Chrysomplialus dictyospermi minor and distribution, P. Marchal 795 



The capture of Lepidoptera by means of acetylene lamps, J. Dewitz 796 



The shoot and fruit moth of red and black currants 796 



Notes on Papilio asterias, C. Floersheim 796 



Notes on Prionapteryx nebulifera, E. Dtecke 796 



The fowl tick and hunter ant 796 



An ant killer 796 



Two leaf miners, F. V. Theobald 796 



The larch leaf-miner, F. V. Theobald 796 



Composition of soaps in relation to spraying, L. L. Van Slyke and F. A. Urner. 796 



Homemade soap for spraying, F. H. Hall, L. L. Van Slyke, and F. A. Urner. 797 



Carbon bisulphid, its nature and uses, C. Fuller 797 



Effect of free arsenious oxid on foliage, A. B. Cordley 797 



A new species of parasite in larva? of AnopJieles maculipennis, E. Hesse 797 



Beneficial ladybugs, F. W. Terry '- 797 



Sericulture in Madagascar in 1903 797 



Power spraying, J. C. Blair 798 



The world's silk production, J. C. Covert 798 



FOODS — NUTRITION. 



Fourth report on food products for 1903, B. W. Kilgore 798 



Foods and food control. II, Legislation during 1904, W. I). Bigelow 798 



Comparison of green and yelli >\v rye, J. Wien 798 



Studies on the Alsop pn »cess of bleaching flour, C. Brahm 799 



Local meals for storing - 799 



Composition and price of different sorts of meat and sausage, T. Kita 799 



The biology of decay of meat, G. Salus 799 



The changes which preserved eggs undergo on storage, M. Wintgen 800 



Further analyses of fruit juice and berries, A. Beythien 800 



Composition of fruit juices and fruit sirups, A. Juckenack and R. 1'asternack. 800 



The composition of orange juice, K. Farnsteiner and W. Stiiber 800 



The occurrence of sulphurous acid in wine, W. Kerp 800 



Government inspection of vanilla beans in Tahiti, W. F. Doty 800 



