740 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Notes on Rylesimis sericeus, E. A. Schwarz (pp. 254-256). — Notes on 

 the habits of this scolytid infesting Eugelraann's spruce {Picea engel- 

 manni) in the Wahsatch Mountains, Utah. An illustration is given 

 of the workings under the bark. 



A new parasite of Mytilaspis pomorum, L. 0. Howard (p. 25G). — 

 Technical description of Chiloneurus diaspidinarum, a hymenopterous 

 parasite of the apple oyster- shell bark louse. 



The patent on the hydrocyanic acid gas process declared invalid, D. W. 

 CoquiUett (pp. 257, 258). — Kote on a recent court judgment on this point 

 in California. 



A netv pear insect (pp. 258-260). — Notes on Agrilus sinuatus, a flat- 

 headed borer imported from Europe, that has caused considerable 

 damage to pear trees in New Jersey. 



Scorpions, centipedes, and tarantulas (pp. 260-263). — Notes on the 

 venom of these animals, with letters from 2 entomologists who had 

 been stung by scorpions in the Tropics. 



General notes, and notes from correspondence (pp. 263-280). — Among 

 these may be noted the following: Grain insects in mills, the carnation 

 twitter again, legislation against insects in British Columbia, a new 

 department of the Pasteur Institute, some South Australian matters, 

 cooperative work against insects, a New Zealand moth-catching plant, 

 the army worm in 1894, abundance of Gharwas graminis in Scotland, two 

 more important Vedalias, damage by the brown sap chafer, abundance 

 of an imported snout beetle in Maine, damage to clover in Michigan, a 

 new cotton insect in Texas, the pear midge in England, destructive 

 grasshoppers in New York, an important scale insect on cottonwood, 

 the spider which bites, cicada chimneys, bird lice as mutualists, occur- 

 rence of the pear-leaf blister mite upon the Pacific Coast, maggots in 

 poor butter, new habitats for the Florida red scale, the potato-scab gnat 

 in Missouri, Oklahoma food of the harlequin cabbage bug, the apple 

 maggot in North Carolina, the sugar-cane weevil in the Fiji Islands, 

 horn fly on horses again, the barnacle scale in Louisiana, and the hen 

 flea on horses. 



Report of the entomologist, F. L. Harvey {Maine Sta. Ept. 1893, 

 pp. 146-151, 159-180, figs. 16). — Illustrated, descriptive, life history, and 

 remedial notes on the Angoumois grain moth [Gelechia cerealella), lime- 

 tree winter moth [Hyhernia tillaria), apple-leaf bucculatrix {Bucculatrix 

 pomifoliella), disippus butterfly (Limenitis disippus). May beetle {Lach- 

 nosterna fusca), bean weevil {Bruchus ohtectus), pear-blight beetle or 

 shot-borer [Xylehortis pyri), and carrot fly {Psila rosce). 



The apple-leaf bucculatrix was observed damaging apple trees in the 

 State for the first time, and its habits were especially investigated. 

 The damage was done in early summer and it is believed that there is 

 but one brood in Maine. Jarring the larvse from the trees, spray- 

 ing with kerosene emulsion in the winter and when the larvaB hatch, 

 and hand picking the cocoons are recommended. Kainit, kerosene 



