856 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOED. 



of numerous important insect pests from abroad which have been intercepted 

 during the course of inspection work in New Jersey. 



A review of the spread in Russia of the chief injurious animals in 1913, 

 I. A. PoRTCHiNSKY {Ezlicg. Dept. Zeml. [Russia'], 1913, pp. 14, figs. 4; abs. in 

 Rev. Appl. Ent., 3 {1915), Ser. A, No. 3, pp. Ill, 112).— Notes on the more 

 important pests of the year. 



[Philippine insects] {Philippine Jour. Sci., Sect. D, 9 {1914), No. 5, pp. 

 409-464, pis. 2, figs. 11). — Tlie papers here presented deal with Studies in 

 Philippine Jassoidea : I, Some Remarkable Tettigoniellidse, by C. F. Baker (pp. 

 409-421) ; Philippine Histeridse, by H. Bickhardt (pp. 423-431) ; New Ful- 

 goridse of the Philippines, II, by L. Melichar (pp. 433-439) ; Elateridse of the 

 Philippine Islands, by E. Fleutiaux (pp 441-449) ; Catalogue of the Pselaphidse 

 (Coleoptera) of the Philippine Islands, by A. Raff ray (pp. 451-4.55) ; and New 

 Philippine Hymenoptera, by J. C. Crav\'ford (pp. 4.57-^64). 



Annual report of the officer in charge of the insectary for the year ended 

 June 30, 1914, L. J. Newman {Dept. Agr. and Indus. West. Ausf. Ann. Rpt. 

 1914, pp, 60-66). — An account is here given of the occurrence of and work with 

 the more important insects of the year. 



Division of entomology, annual report, 1913-14, C. P. Lounsbuey {Union 

 So. Africa Dept. Agr. Rpt., 1913-14, pp. 199-216) .—This, the usual annual report 

 (E. S. R., 31, p. 548), deals with the work of the year, including nursery and 

 port inspection; the work with locusts, to which a considerable part of the 

 report is devoted ; investigations by the Cape entomologist, C. W. Mally ; wattle 

 insect investigations, by C. B. Hardenberg; etc. 



The enemies of the Jerusalem artichoke, P. Noel {Bui. Trimest. Lab. Ent. 

 Agr. Seine-Inf6r., No. 3 {1914), PP- 15, 16; ahs. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 3 {1915), 

 Ser. A, No. 1, p. 33). — A list of the more important artichoke pests. 



The principal enemies of rice in Indo-Ctiina, L. Dupoet {Jour. Agr. Trop., 

 14 {1914), No. 157, pp. 204-207; abs. in Internat. Inst. Agr. [Rome'}, Mo. Bui. 

 Agr. Intel, and Plant Diseases, 5 {1914), No. 10, pp. 1380, 1381).— Among the 

 more important insects mentioned are Sesamia inferens, Schcenobius bir 

 punctiferus, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Artona walJceri, Sitotroga cerealella, and 

 Leptocorisa varicornis. 



A short text-book on the control of insect pests of orchards, S. Tseshevskago 

 {KratkoG Rukovodstvo po Bofhie s Yreditelmmi Plodovago Sada iz Klassa 

 Nasiekomyhli. Petrograd: Imp. Russ. Obshch. Plodovodstva, 1914, PP- 44, fiffS- 

 61; rev. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 3 {1915), Ser. A, No. 4, P- 183). — ^A popular handbook 

 arranged by seasons for the use of orchardists in Russia. 



Insects and man, C. A. Ealand {Neiv York: The Century Co., 1915, pp. 343, 

 pis. 68). — An account of the more important harmful and beneficial insects, their 

 habits and life laistories, etc. The subject is dealt with under the headings of 

 insects and plants, insects and human disease, insect enemies of live stock, 

 beneficial insects, household insects, some human parasites, and insect control. 

 A classified bibliography covering ten pages, and subject and authorities indexes 

 are included. 



A preliminary list of insects which have wilt, with a comparative study 

 of their polyhedra, J. W. Chapman and R. W. Glaser {Jour. Econ. Ent., 8 

 {1915), No. 1, pp. I4O-I49, fig. 1). — The summary and conclusions drawn from 

 the investigations here reported are as follows: 



" Wilt occurs in many widely different species of insects. The clinical 

 aspects of wilt are very similar in all the species of caterpillars studied by us. 

 Wilt first appears in a chronic form, as conditions become more unfavorable 

 it becomes acute, and finally terminates in a general epidemic. There is a 

 striking similarity in shape between the polyhedra of the different species of 



