CONTENTS. V 



Acidity of the sap in relation to resistance to parasites, Averna-Sacc^ 650 



Experiments with various sprays in combating downy mildew, Brcetsnheider. G5L 



Experiments on the apple with some new fungicides, Waite 651 



The bitter pit of the apple, McAlpine '// (552 



The bleeding stem disease of the coconut, Fetch .'.'.."..'.... 652 



Relationship of certain coniferous diseases to the source of seed.Fromlaling. . . . 652 



Leaf shedding in conifers due to Botrytis cinerea 653 



The fight against the pine tree rot fungus, Moller 653 



Infection experiments with Plasmodiophora brassicx, Appel and Werth 653 



Summer felled wood, Schorstein (553 



Some new parasitic fungi of ornamental plants, Trinchieri 653 



A geranium disease due to eelworms, Chapais 653 



The. biology of the anther smut of Lychnis ( Melandrium) album, Werth .... 654 



A frequent disease of pelargonium cuttings, Peters 654 



Some common diseases of the rose, Laubert 654 



The control of the rose mildew, Schmidt 654 



A new tulip disease, Wortmann 654 



Concerning a fungus parasitic on Zinnia violacea, Trinchieri 654 



The brown fungus of the citrus whitefiy, Fawcett 655 



Some notes on nematodes. Carpenter 655 



A lime-sulphur wash for use on foliage, Salmon 655 



The summer use of concentrated lime sulphur, \\Tietzel 655 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Report of the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory for the year 1908, Liston 656 



Rat destruction in the Punjab 656 



Mice and the transmission of certain infectious diseases, Barabaschi 657 



The kea : A New Zealand problem, Marriner 657 



The feeding habits of the rook, Corvus frugilegus, Collinge 657 



Proceedings of the American Association of Economic Entomologists 657 



Proceedings of the eighth annual meeting of horticultural inspectors 658 



The entomological section, Gunn and Thomsen 658 



Entomological notes, Burt 658 



Report of the entomologist, Froggatt 659 



The scarabee of the sweet potato, Ballon 059 



Insects which attack vine buds, Wesley G59 



Trees attacked by Termes gestroi, Ridley 659 



A new microsporidian parasite of Termes lucifugus, Perez 660 



On the feeding habits of the common earwig, Forficula auricularia, Collinge 6G0 



On two new genera of Thysanoptera from Venezuela, Bagnall 660 



The cotton stainer bug, Lounsbury 660 



The phylloxera board, Lowcay 660 



[Gossyparia spuria on Viscum album], Fulmek 660 



The sugar cane mealy bug (Pseudococcus calceolarias), Garrett 660 



The San Jose scale and its control, Quaintance 661 



On some coccid pests of economic importance, Green 662 



On 2 new species of African coccidte, Newstead 662 



A louse from Orycteropus afer, and a new variety of Amblyomma, Neumann. . . 662 



The development of Trypanosoma lewisi in Hsematopimus spinulosus, Baldrey. 662 



The plume moths of Ceylon, Fletcher '. 662 



Field work against the gipsy moth and the brown-tail moth, Rogers and Burgess. 662 



Some experiments on the edibility of certain lepidopterous larvaj, Eltringham. 663 



Mosquitoes, Balfoiu" • • - 663 



Distomid parasites on Anopheles maculipennis, Allessandrini 663 



The Simulium columbaczense of Roumania, Leon 664 



A monograph of the African Tabanidse of the genus Talmnus, Surcouf 664 



Some further remarks on the systematic affinities of the Phoridse, Brues 664 



A preliminary list of the flics of Wisconsin, Graenicher 664 



Three new blood-sucking flies from Paraguay, Schrottky 664 



The biology and history of the t.setse flics, Roubaud 664 



The structure, development, and bionomics of the house fly, III, Hewitt 664 



The Berkeley hou.se-fly campaign, Ilerms 664 



The house fly at the bar of indictment.— Guilty or not guilty? 660 



A contribution to the study of the Pupipara, Massonat 665 



Myiasis of the urinary tract, Chevrel 665 



