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A banana disease in Cuba, Johnston 847 



Marasmius perniciosus n. sp., cause of ki'ulloten disease of cacao, Stahel 847 



Coffee leaf disease (liemilcia vastatrix) in Uganda, Simpson and Small 848 



Citrus cankcr,_Cook 848 



Citrus canker in America. The outbreak of a new disease, Darnell-Smith 848 



Discovery of chestnut blight parasite in Japan, Shear and Steveus 848 



The chestnut bark disease in Vermont, Ross 848 



Diseases of Hevea in Ceylon, Peteh 849 



[A larch leaf disease], Lebedeva 849 



Peridermiian harknessii and Cronartium quercuvi, Meinecke 849 



Brown oak and its origin, Groom 849 



ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 



Birds of Porto Rico, Wetmore 849 



Peculiarity in growth of tail feathers of giant hornbill, Wetmore 850 



Strychnin sulphate. — Its effect on California valley quail, Pierce and Clegg. . . 850 



Five new mammals from Mexico and Arizona, Goldman 850 



Descriptions of a new genus and seven new races of flying squirrels, Howell. . . 850 



Five new rice rats of the genus Oryzomys from Middle America, Goldman — 850 



Distribution and combat of field mouse in Bavaria from 1902 to 1913, Ililtuer. . 850 



A sj^stematic account of the grasshopper mice, Hollister 850 



Medical and veterinary entomology, Herms 850 



[Papers on insects and insect control] 850 



Work of the colonial entomologist, Mayne 851 



[Report of the entomologist of Southern Nigeria], Lamborn 851 



Insect pests of wheat, Gurney 851 



Some of the more important truck crop pests in Georgia, Reed 851 



Carbon bisulphid and its use for grain fumigation, Goodwin 851 



[Cranberry insects in Wisconsin], Malde 851 



Blueberry insects in Maine, Woods 851 



Insects affecting the coconut palm in Trinidad, Urich 853 



Insects as carriers of the chestnut blight fungus, Studhalter and Ruggles 853 



Hydrocyanic acid gas against household insects, Howard and Popeuoe 853 



Orthoptera of the Yale-Dominican expedition of 1913, Caudell 854 



Genera of subfamily Rhaphidophorinse found north of Mexico, Caudell 854 



[Migratory locusts in South America] 854 



Jerusalem's locust plague, Whiting 854 



Observations on Chermes spp. in Switzerland, Cholodkovsky 854 



Identity of Eriosoma pyri, Baker 854 



Destruction of body lice by oil of eucalyptus, Sergent and Foley 854 



Descriptions of new species and genera of Lepidoptera from Mexico, Dyar 855 



Lepidoptera of the Yale-Dominican expedition of 1913, Dyar 855 



Report on the Lepidoptera of the Panama Canal Zone, Dyar 855 



New genera and species of Microlepidoptera from Panama, Busck 855 



The injmious Microlepidoptera of the fir and spruce, Tragardh 855 



The noctuid moths of the genera Palindia and Dyomyx, Dyar 855 



The pickle worm or cucumber worm {Diaphania nitidalis), Garman 855 



The practical employment of the cacao moth parasite, Roepke 855 



Two new Canadian Diptera, Aldrich 855 



New western and southwestern Muscoidea, Townsend 855 



Diagnoses of new genera of muscoid flies founded on old species, Townsend . . . 855 



The house fly, Fitzsimons 855 



The sporogony of Hsemoproteus columhse, Adie 355 



Fighting the fly peril, Plowman and Dearden 856 



Report on a mosquito sm'vey at the mouth of the Connecticut, Butti'ick 85g 



Anopheles as a winter carrier of plasmodium, Mitzmain 856 



The duck as a preventive against malaria and yellow fever, Dixon 856 



Anastrepha serpentina, a new pest of fruits in Brazil, Tavares 856 



Relations of Mediterranean fruit fly and citrus fruits, Savastano 856 



Two new species of Pipunculus, Knab .' 857 



Notes on some Virginian species of Platypeza, Banks 857 



Life history and control measures for the cereal leaf beetle, Kadocsa 857 



The western 12-spotted cucumber beetle, Essig 857 



Problem of the bark beetle, Swaine 857 



Species of Rhynchites and Anthonomus pomorum injuring orchards, Schreiner. 357 



Boll weevils hibernating in cotton seed 857 



The Mexican beau weevil, Amundsen 857 



