CONTENTS. V 



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[Report of] department of entomolos:}', Withycombe 846 



Report on injurious insects in Finland, 1911 and 1912, Renter 847 



Report of the imperial pathological entomologist, Howlett 847 



[Annual report of the government entomologist of Uganda], Gowdey 847 



Proceedings of the German Association, edited by Escherich and Schwangart. . 847 



Insect enemies of the beet root in the south of France, Picard 848 



Insect enemies of locusts in Ruasia. — I, Coleopterous enemies, Portchinsky... 848 



The pea thrips, Gaumont and Vuillet 848 



Maine aphids of the rose family. Patch 848 



The woolly apple aphis. Baker 848 



The host plants and habits of Aphis nimicis, Davidson 849 



Preliminary notes on damage to apples by capsid bugs. Fryer 849 



Life history and habits of pear thrips in California, Foster and Jones 850 



The San Jos6 scale and its control, Quaintance 850 



The San Jos6 scale insect (^Aspidiotus peniioiosus) , Melander 850 



Monograi)h of tlie bombycme moths of North America, II and III, Packard. . . 850 



A new phycitid injurious to pine, Dyar 850 



Caterpillars attacking oaks, with account of spraying with lead chromate,Deakin . 850 



Control of the gipsy moth, O'Kane 850 



Causes and symptoms of flacherie and polyhedral disease, Fischer 851 



Biological notes on the larva of Tipula oleracea in the spring of 1914, D^soil. . . 851 



Ceratopogoninse sucking the blood of other insects, Knab 851 



A new tachinid parasite of Diapheromera femorata, Walton 851 



Lucilia scricata attacking a live calf, Hudson 851 



Two new species of Strepsiptera parasitic on cane insects, Pierce 851 



Effect of turpentine and paraffin on germination of turnip seed, Corbett 851 



Alfalfa attacked by the clover-root curculio, Webster 851 



The cotton boll w«evil in Cuba, Wolcott 852 



A braconid parasite on the pine weevil, llylohius abietis, Munro 852 



Revision of North American species of Habrobracon, Cushman 852 



Descriptions of new chalcid flies, Girault 852 



Some notes on Xylebonis fomicatus (shot-hole borer), Rutherford 852 



Descriptions of two parasitic Hymenoptera, Rohwer 852 



Third annual report of state bee inspector of Iowa for 1914, Pellett 852 



Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Fricks 853 



Mites of the genus Tarsonemus causing disease on Gramineae, Corbett 853 



A revision of the cestode family Proteocephalidae, La Rue 853 



POODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Lectures on food chemistry, compiled by Kerp 854 



A study of foods, Wardall and White 854 



The food industry, edited by von Buchka 854 



New food preparations, Wagner 854 



The egg from the point of \ievr of nutrition, Delaye 854 



[Examination of shellfish] 854 



Notes on flour, Thomson 855 



Bulbs of very doubtful value as food. Murphy 855 



Comparative cooking qualities of some Oregon apples, Milam and Gardner 855 



Honey and its uses in the home. Hunt and Atwater 855 



Ice cream 856 



Mat6 tea, Brieger 856 



Drugs 856 



Miscellaneous food materials 856 



Value and purpose of animal experimentation in meat examination, Miiller. . . 856 



The bacteriology of paper dishes, Dudderidge 856 



A study of fruit jar caps, Stapp 856 



Experiments in cheap catering. Sellers 856 



A shop-girls' restaurant. Sellers 857 



Food for polar explorers 857 



The diet of working men and the principles of nutrition, Hirschfeld 857 



What are the proximate principles in nutrition? Hough 857 



The use of boiled milk in infant feeding, Dennett 857 



Tri-calcium phosphate as a bone former for nursing infants, Schloss and Frank . 857 



Etiology of beri-beri with reference to phosphorus metabolism, Schaumann. . . 858 



Etiology of beri-beri, II, Schaumann 858 



Review of literature of phosphorus in metabolism, Forbes and Keith 858 



