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Not more tliaii 1 aero in lU should be laid down to struwberrie.s iu au infected 

 locality. 



Annual report of the Bee-Keepers' Association of the Province of Oninrio, 

 1912 (Anti. Rpl. Bee Keepers' A.svsoc. Oniaiio, 19J2, pp. 72). — This consists of 

 the procotHliugs of the annual meeting, held at Toronto in November, 1912. 



The BombidaB of the New World, II, H. J. Franklin {Trans. Auier. Ent. 

 /Sot'., 89 {WIS), No. 2, pp. 73-200, pis. 22).— This second part of the work pre- 

 viously noted (E. S. II., 28, p. 75S) deals with the species occurring south of the 

 United States. Tables are given for the determination of queens, workers, and 

 males of American species of Bombus south of the northern boundary of Mexico, 

 of which 9 species are described as new to science. It is stated that females 

 and males of but 2 species of Psithyrus each have so far as known been collected 

 in the New World south of the United States, one of the males having not 

 hitherto been described. A list of unclassified names and descriptions is 

 appended. 



Studies in the wood wasp superfamily Oryssoidea, with descriptions of 

 new species, S. A. Kohweb {Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 43 {1913), pp. 141-158, pis. 2, 

 figs. 6). — This contribution from the Bureau of Entomology of this Department 

 deals with the habits, geographical distribution, external anatomy, relationships, 

 and classification of the superfamily. 



A study in insect parasitism, R. L. Webster {Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci, 19 

 {1912), pp. 209-213). — This paper reports studies made at the Iowa Experi- 

 ment Station of parasitism of the southern tobacco worm {Phlegcthontius sexta), 

 a pest commonly met with iu Iowa on the tomato and potato. 



The braconid Apanteles congrcgatus, its most common primary parasite, was 

 found to be highly parasitized by the two hyperparasites 2Iesochorus lutcipes 

 and Hypopteromalus riridcscens. Six different lots consisting of a total of 

 2,393 Apanteles were collected from September 7 to October IS. Apanteles de- 

 veloped from 1,112, Hypopteromalus from 779, and Mesochorus from 27, leaving 

 475 from which nothing was reared. 



A revision of the Ichneumonidas based on the collection in the British 

 Museum (Natural History), with descriptions of new g'enera and species, 

 C. MoRLEY {London, 1913, pt. 2, pp. iZ+iZ/O, pi. i).— This second part of the 

 work previously noted (E. S. R., 27, p. 662) deals with the tribes Rhyssides and 

 Echthromorphides of the subfamily Pimplinae and Anomalides and Paniscides 

 of the subfamily Ophioniua?. 



Descriptions of new Hymenoptera, V, J. C. Crawford {Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 43 {1913), pp. 163-188, pgs. 2).— Among the 2 genera and 30 species here 

 described as new to science are Eurytoma piurw and Gerainhycohius toicnscndi, 

 both reared from the Peruvian cotton square-weevil {Anthonomus vcstitus) in 

 Peru; Coccidoctonus trinidadensis, reared from Pulvinaria pyriformis on honey- 

 suckle in Trinidad; Spintherus pulchripcnnis, reared from Pissodes sp. at Co- 

 lumbia Falls, Mont.; Cecidostiha asUmeadi, a parasite of Polygraphus rufipennis 

 at Morgantown, W. Va. ; Cecidostiha tliomsoni from Pissodes sp., at Columbia 

 Falls, Mont.; Gatolaccus toicnscndi from A. vestitus in Peru; GJirysocharis 

 parksi, G. ainsliei, Glosterocerus utahensis, Pleurotropis rugosithorax, Deros- 

 ti^ns punctiventris, and Diaulinus hcgini, reared from Diptera of the genus 

 Agromyza at Salt Lake City, Utah; Glosterocerus ivinnemance, reared from the 

 eggs of Arge salicis at Plummer's Island, Maryland; Diaulinopsis caUichroma 

 and Diaulinus websteri, both reared from Agromyza jucunda at Tempe, Ariz.; 

 and Comedo fiookeri, reared from Pyropliila pyramidoides at Vienna, Va. 



Descriptions of one new family, eig-ht new g-enera, and thirty-three new 

 species of ichneumon flies, H. L. Viereck {Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 43 {1913), 

 pp. 575-593). — Among the species of economic importance here described as new 



