1919] ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY — ENTOMOLOGY. 463 



Extermination of cotton boll -weevil, J. E. Ransdell {Cong. Rcc, 58 (1919), 

 No. 77, pp. 4399-.'f404) . — This discussion includes correspondence relating to the 

 control of the boll weevil by dusting and a summary of the present status of 

 the work up to August 1, 1919, by B. R. Coad. 



Shot-hole borer (Xyleborus fornicatus), E. R. Speyeb (Dept. Agr. Ceylon 

 Bui. Jfli {1919), pp. 8). — A control pruning scheme and its practical modification, 



Langstroth on the hive and honeybee, Dadant {Hamilton, III.: Dadant d 

 Sons, 1919, 20. ed., pp. X+575, pis. 28, figs. 229). — A revised edition of the work 

 previously noted (E. S. R., 20, p. 1155), in which the principal changes relate 

 to diseases of bees. 



Beginning's in beekeeping, W. P. Alexander {Cornell Reading Course for the 

 Farm, No. 138 {1918), pp. 73-96, figs. 13).— A popular account. 



Eighteenth annual report of the Illinois State Beekeepers' Association, 

 J. A. Stone {Ann. Rpt. III. State Beekeepers' Assoc., 18 {1919), pp. 218, figs. 

 13). — The papers presented at the annual meeting are included in this report. 



Commercial comb honey production, G. S. Demuth {U. S. Dept. Agr., Farm- 

 ers' Bui. 1039 {1919), pp. 40, figs. 14). — This is a revision of Farmers' Bulletin 

 503, previously noted (E. S. R., 27, p. 865). 



Isle of Wight disease in hive bees, J. Rennie and E. J. Haex'ey {Scot. Jour. 

 Agr., 2 {1919), No. 2, pp. 176-189) .—The authors report the results of work 

 carried on in continuation of investigations previously noted (E. S. R., 37, 

 p. 360). They conclude that the causal organism of Isle of Wight disease has 

 not yet been found. 



Foul brood, B, F. Kindig {Michigan Sta. Circ. 39 {1919), pp. 4)- — This is a 

 supplement to Special Bulletins 58 and 64 previously noteil (E. S. R., 31, 

 p. 553), and relates to the control of European foul brood. 



Edema of the eyelids caused by ants, A. J. Chambers and A. Mabshall 

 {Jour. Trop. Med. and Hyg. [London'\, 22 {1919), No. 12, p. 117, i)l. l).—Mono- 

 morium bicolor nitidiventre is reported to have caused edema through its at- 

 taching to the eyelids of man in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



New Chalcididse, E. Malenotti {Redia, 13 {1918), No. 1-2, pp. 77-92, figs. 17; 

 abs. in Internat. Inst. Agr. [Rome], Internat. Rev. Sci. and Pract. Agr., 9 

 {1918), No. 9, pp. 1122, 1123).— With the discovery of Aphelinus bovelli eight 

 chalcidids are known to parasitize Chri/somphalus dictyospermi. 



Descriptions of four new parasitic Hymenoptera, S. A. Rohwek {Canad. 

 Ent., 51 {1919), No. 6-7, pp. 160-162). — Tetrastichus rugglesi reared as a para 

 site of Agrilus arcuatus at University Farm, St. Paul, Minn., and Trigonura 

 hicorice, Ecpliylus hicoricB, and Hcterospilus blackmanni, all three reared from 

 pignut {Hicoria glabra) at Syracuse, N. T., are described as new. 



The life history of a gall mite on Nephrolepis biserrata, X. Giesenhagen 

 {Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. [Pringshcim'], 58 {1917), No. 1, pp. 66-IO4. pis. 2, figs. 3).— 

 A detailed report of studies of Eriophyes nalcpa'i. 



Second memorandum on acarids (mites) occurring in stored grain and 

 flour, R. Newstead and H. M. Duvall {Roy. Soc. [London'], War Committee 

 Memo. 4 {1918), pp. 11, pis. 2). — The first part of this memorandum deals 

 briefly with the life history and habits of Aleurobius farinw, Glyciphagus ca- 

 daverum, Cheyletus eruditus, and Acarophenax tribolH; the second part, with 

 economic and experimental work with acarids in stored grain and in flour. A 

 more detailed account has been previously noted (E. S. R., 40, p. 855). 



The amount of food eaten by the spider (Aranea sericata), G. E. Nebel 

 {Travis. Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts, and Letters, 19 (1918), pt. 1, pp. 524-530). — This 

 paper deals with the amount of food eaten by seven specimens of A. sericata, 

 and the amount which they gained or lost in weight during a period of four 

 months in which tlie fruit or pomace fly {[Drosophila] Mclanogastcr ampe- 



