ENTOMOLOGY. 739 



Observations on the application of fungicides and insecticides {Xew Tork State 

 Sta. Bui. 74, pp. SS3-405, fids. 12). — Illustrations aud descriptions are given of vari- 

 ous kinds of apparatus for the application of fungicides and insecticides, together 

 ■with formulas for Bordeaux mixture, kerosene emulsion, and Paris green solutions. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insect Life {TJ. S. Dept. Agr., Division of JEntoynology, Insect Life, 

 vol. VII, No. 3, pp. 217-280, figs. 10).— Special notes (pp. 217-219).— 

 Under tliis head are treated the need of quarantiue laws iu the East, 

 the double-broodedness of the codling moth, the chinch bug in 1894, 

 aud reviews of entomological iniblications. 



Damage by the American locust, L. 0. Howard (pp. 220-229). — An 

 account of a destructive invasion of ScJiistocera americana iu Eoauoke 

 County, Virginia, where oats, clover, corn, fruit trees, and other vege- 

 tation were defoliated by the insects. Illustrated, descriptive, and life 

 history notes are given and a detailed report upon the attack, by D. W. 

 Coquillett, is included. A mixture of bran, arsenic, and sugar distrib- 

 uted through the fields proved an eflflcient means of destruction. 



Chinch bug observations in Iowa in 1894, H. Osborn (pp. 230-232). — 

 Notes on devastations by this insect — wheat, barley, rye, oats, and corn 

 suffering in the order given. The bugs were found in the vast majority 

 of cases to have hibernated in osage orange hedges. Light, friable 

 soils were most infested. 



The hibernation of the chinch bug, G. L. Marlatt (pp. 232-234). — Notes 

 and observations on this ijoint of the life history, the normal hiber- 

 nating place of the chinch bug being believed to be the dense stools of 

 certain wild grasses, which it is recommended be burned in the winter. 

 The life cycle of the insect for central Kansas is summarized. 



A maple pseudococcus, L. 0. Howard (pp. 235-240). — Illustrated, 

 descriptive, and life history notes on Pseudococcus aceris, a rare scale 

 which occurred on maples in 4 or 5 localities in the northern United 

 States the past season. 



Notes on cotton insects found in Mississippi, W. H. Ashmead (pp. 

 240-247). — A continuation of a paper begun in Insect Life, vol. vii, No. 

 1 (E. S. E., C, p. 563). This installment contains an annotated list of the 

 Hymenoptera and Coleoptera found in cotton fields by the writer. The 

 following new genus and species are described: Ghrysopophagus, G. com- 

 pressicornis, Zachresta dimidiata, Limneria 7nississippiensis, Lymeon an- 

 nulicornis, Otacustes atriceps, and 0. chrysopce. 



Tlie codling moth double-brooded, G. L. Marlatt (pp. 248-251). — An 

 exhaustive review of the data bearing on this point, with the conclu- 

 sion that in the greater part of the United States the insect has 2 

 annual broods, though in the northern States there is but 1, and there 

 are 3 in California. 



A new sawifly, which is injurious to hollyhoclcs, T. 7>. A. Gocherell (pp. 

 251-253). — A technical description of Nematoneura malvacearum. 



