448 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The frogs and toads [of Long- Island], F. Overton (Mas. Brooklyn Inst, 

 Arts and Sci., Sci. Bid., 2 (JOI.'f), No. 3, pp. 21-/(0, pis. 12, fig. Jf).— In this paper 

 two species of toads and eight of frogs occurring on Long Island are briefly 

 dealt with. Photographic illustrations are included. 



The scope and aims of applied entomology, A. D. Imms {Parasitology, 7 

 {iOl-i), JN^o. 1, pp. GO-87). — The author discusses this subject under the head- 

 ings of medical entomology, agricultural entomology, economic entomology, and 

 the place of physiological research in applied entomology. 



A list of references to the literature cited is api^ended. 



Experiments on inheritance in parthenogenesis, W. E. Agar (Phil. Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. London, Scr. B, 205 U'.lL'i), Xo. .:i2.i, pp. J,21-4S9).— In the investiga- 

 tions here rei)orted the author made use of four insects which commonly repro- 

 duce parlhenogenotically. namely, 8iin<jcephalus exspinosus, *S'. retulus, Daphnia 

 ohtiisa, and Macrosiphum anthcrinii. 



Report from the division of entomology for the fiscal year ending March 

 31, 1913, C. G. Hewitt (Canada Expt. Farms Rpts. 1913, pp. J,99-518, pi. 1).— 

 This report deals briefly with the administration of the Destructive Insect and 

 Pest Act under the headings of inspection and fumigation of imported- nursery 

 stock and field work against the brown-tail moth and parasite work; with in- 

 sects affecting field crops, fruit crops, forest and shade trees, domestic animals, 

 find man, and garden and greenhouse; and with apiculture. 



Among the more important pests of the year meutioue<l are cutworms (Prosa- 

 grotis delorata, Euxoa ochrogaster, et al.), depredations by which were extensive 

 and unusually severe in southern Alberta ; chinch bugs, about 25 per cent of 

 which were destroyed in the fall by Sporotrichum globuliferum ; eelworms, 

 which injured wheat plants in Alberta by attacking the stems and may prove to 

 be the European pest Tylenchus dci'astatrix, this being the first record of injury 

 to staple crops by the pest in North America; the seed corn maggot (Pcgomya 

 fusciccps) which w'as unusually injurious in Ontario; Olctli rentes frigidnna, 

 not previously regarded as of economic importance, which was found to injure 

 apple buds in Nova Scotia ; the apple maggot and the San Jose scale, both of 

 which appeared in Nova Scotia for the first time; the strawberry root weevil 

 {Otiorhynehus ovatus) (E. S. R., 30 p. 58), one of the most injuinous small 

 fruit pests in British Columbia; the western tent caterpillar (Malacosoma 

 erosa), which defoliated apples in the Eraser Valley; .1/. ainericana and J/. 

 disstria, which were abundant on forest and shade trees in Ontario, Quebec, 

 and New Brunswick ; bark beetles, several species of which were the source of 

 considerable injury to timber; the spruce budworm (Tortrix fumiferana), 

 which is gradually spreading eastward ; scale insects of several species which 

 injured forest and shade trees; tbe larch case bearer (Coleophora laricella), 

 which was abundant on larches at Ottawa ; the Rocky Mountain spotted fever 

 tick (Dcrmacentor vcnustus), chiefly distributed in Canada in the Kootenai 

 legion; the European ox warble or botfly (Hypoderma bovis) which has been 

 found to occur in British Columbia, and at Agassiz to be the common species 

 (E. S. R., 29, p. 357) ; etc. 



Annual report for 1913 of the zoologist, C. Warburton (Jour. Roy. Agr. 

 fioc. England, 74 (1913), pp. .:i79-3S9, figs. 3). — Among the insects discussed are 

 the spruce aphis (Aphis ahictina), pea thriiis, and raspberry beetle (Byiurus 

 tomenfosus) . 



[Report of] division of entomology, F. P. Jepson (Fiji Dept. Agr. Ann. 

 Rpt. 1918, pp. 12, 13). — This is a brief report of the work of the year in Fiji. 



Report of division of entomology for 1913; D. d'Emmerez de Charmoy 

 (Ann. Rpt. Dept. Agr. Main-itiiis, 1913, pp. 10-12). — This report deals briefly 



