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division, new edition of Hubbard's "Insects Affecting the Orange," 

 and investigations of the cause of the potato scab and ])otato rot. 



Becs', C. V. Rile// (pp. 3.")0-3()0). — A popular artick^ on various bees, 

 both liive and wild. The general life bistory and habits of a hive of 

 bees are treated of. and the more important si)ecial organs of bees, 

 inchiding the tongue, wax-producing organs, wax i)incers, pollen hairs, 

 and antennal comb are described and figured. The modifications in 3 

 wild species of the genus Apis and in other wikl bees are mentioned 

 and illustrated. 



The San Jose or jicniicious seale (pp. 300-301)). — A somewhat popular 

 review of Aspidiotus pemiciosus, with an account of its presence in the 

 East, where it is supposed to have been introduced on pears brought 

 from California. It is believed that the pest can be stamped out by 

 treatment witli hydrocyanic gas. 



Complete life history of the sugar-beet ivebworm, L. 0. Howard (pp. 

 309-373). — Notes on the life history and ravages of Loxostege sticticalis, 

 with description and figures of 2 of its parasites, Cremnops ruh/aris and 

 Chelonus eleetus. Arsenical mixtures are advised and winter harrow- 

 ing of the land infested. 



Notes from eorrespondenee and general notes (pp. 373-379).— Among 

 the tox)ics treated are the following : Abundance of the peach-twig borer 

 ill Washington ; grasshopper damage in Minnesota ; a new Chrysomelid 

 on apple in California; the army worm the present summer; coopera 

 five work against insects; legal aspects of fumigation m California; 

 notes from Illinois; another trial with English Hessian fly parasites; 

 Provancher's Ichneumonnhe; cutworms and their hymenopteroiis cue 

 raies; bran and Paris green for cutworms; a leaf chafer attacking 

 petunias; a severe couorhinus bite; kerosene emulsion as a deterrent 

 against grasshoppers. 



The minutes of 4 meetings of the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington are given, and an index to volume vi of Insect Life is appended. 



Injurious insects in Hawaii, A. Koebele {Ept. Dept. Agr. and For- 

 estry^ Hawaiian Republic, 1S!)4, pp. 98-104). — Keport of the entomologist, 

 briefly reviewing the injurious insects found dnring a cursory survey 

 of the islands. The most injurious species areas follows: Rhizococeus 

 spp., affecting most of the trees and shrubs of the islands, but especially 

 destructive to the citrns and coffee plantations, and probably intro- 

 duced from Japan; Pulvinaria psidi, upon many trees and shrubs; the 

 red scale of California; the purple scale of Florida; the pernicious or 

 San Jose scale; several species of mealy bugs; and a snout beetle (an 

 Otiorhynchid) which eats the leaves of many trees, plants, and shrubs. 

 There are included lists of beneficial insects, chiefly Coccinelhds, which 

 have been introduced from California into the Hawaiian Islands. — 



L. O. HOWARD. 



Insects in Ottawa in 1893, J. FLETrHER {Canada Exptl. Farms, 

 Rpt. 1893, pp. 157-183, Jigs. 2(1). — Notes on various granary insects 



