1917] CONTENTS. V 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



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The parasites of food animals transmissible to man, Ransom 355 



Concerning the pocket gopher and destructive habits, Scheffer 355 



New monostome trematode parasitic in muskrat, with key to parasites, Barker. . 355 



Belle Fourche reservoir as a bird reservation and refuge, Dille 355 



The Salt River national bird reservation, Arizona, Willett 355 



East Park bird reservation, California, Willett 355 



The Deer Flat national bird reservation, Idaho, Palmer 355 



The Minidoka national bird reservation, Idaho, Dille 355 



The birds of Culebra Island, Porto Rico, Wetmore 355 



How birds' stomachs are examined, McAtee 355 



The technique of experimentation in agricultural entomology, I, Emelianov. . 355 



The longevity of some insects in captivity, Labitte 355 



Precipitation in relation to insect prevalence and distribution, Criddle. 355 



Resistance of larvae of Cossus and Carpocapsa to cold, Gueylard and Portier. . . 356 



Insects attacking stored wheat in the Pimjab, Barnes and Grove 356 



Florida truck and garden insects, Watson 356 



Insects injurious to timber in Sweden, Kemner 356 



Report of first expedition to South America, 1913, Strong et al 356 



Report of the Kansas State Entomological Commission for 1915 and 1916 357 



Report of work done during year ended June 30, 1916, Dutt 357 



Reports of the microbiologist, Nicholls 357 



Notes on Argentine, Patagonian, and Cape Horn Muridae, Thomas 357 



The sheep tick and its eradication by dipping, Imes 357 



The destruction of locusts in Colombia by dipterous parasites, Dawe 357 



The cacao thrips, Hutson 357 



Mites and lice on poultry, Bishopp and Wood 357 



A contribution to the study of kala-azar, Cornwall and La Frenais 357 



Notes on a froghopper attacking sugar cane in Surinam, Williams 358 



ApMds injurious to orchard fruits, etc., Quaintance and Baker 358 



The San Jos6 scale, Paddock 358 



Some new scale insects of Japan, Kuwana 358 



A scale enemy of the vine in Uruguay, Schurmann 358 



Introduction of Diaspis pentagona and its control in Argentina, Gallardo 358 



The pink bollworm, Hunter 358 



The life of the caterpillar, Fabre, trans, by Teixeira de Mattos 358 



A few notes on the life history of Phalonia spartinana, Ainslie 358 



Recent questioning of the transmission of verruga by Phlebotomus, Townsend . . 358 



Studies in flies: II, Structures other than genitalia, Awati 358 



Two new genera of African Muscoidea, Townsend 359 



The lantana seed fly, Jepson 359 



Plagiodera versicolora. — An imported pest, Weiss and Dickerson 359 



Scientific annihilation of the tobacco beetle, Skerrett 359 



Report of the South Carolina Boll Weevil Commission, Riggs 359 



On some CurcuUonidse which live in bamboo stems, da Costa Lima 359 



The leaf weevil (Polydrusus impressifrons) , Parrott and Glasgow 359 



Bees for the farmer. Troop and Price 360 



Outdoor wintering [of bees], Phillips 360 



The sense organs on the mouth parts of the honeybee, Mclndoo 360 



Contribution to the etiology of infectious diarrhea of bees, Serbinov 360 



Connection of Nosema apis with Isle of Wight disease in hive bees, Anderson. . 360 



Observations bearing on Isle of Wight disease, Anderson and Rennie 360 



Three new chalcid flies from California, Girault 360 



Monograph of the nearctic Hymenoptera of the genus Bracon, Morrison 360 



Sign iphora merceti n. sp. , Malenotti 360 



Gonatocerus mexkanus, a mymarid parasitic in Draeculacephala mollipes, Swezey . 360 



The ticks wliich attack domestic animals in Russian Tiu-kestan, Yakimoff 360 



Parasitism of Ehipicephalus sanguineus by Hunterellus hookeri, da Costa Lima. . 360 



Occurrence of tropical fowl mite {Liponyssus bursa) in Australia, Hii-st 360 



The structure and Life history of Nosema bombyds, Kudo 361 



Larval forms of heteroxenous nematode parasites, Seurat 361 



Two new cases of polyradiate cestodes, with summary of cases known, Foster. . 361 



Polyradiate cestodes. Barker 361 



A fiurther note on polyradiate cestodes, Foster 361 



FOODS — HUMAN NUTRITION. 



Characteristics and quality of Montana-grown wheat, Thomas 361 



The capacity of wheat and mill products for moisture, Stockham 362 



