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Bee keeping for farmers, R. G. Wabry {Dept. Agr. N. S. Wales Farmers* 

 Bui. 76 {WIS), pp. 19, fiys. 2).— A iwpular acoount. 



Type species of the genera of ichneumon flies, II. L. Viereck ( U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. Bui. S3 (1914), pp. /86).— This bulletin is tlie result of an attempt to put 

 each ichneiimonoid genus, of which there are more than 2,000 with some 25,000 

 species, upon a definite basis. 



Descriptions of new Hymenoptera, VI, J. C. Crawford (Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., 45 {1913), pp. 211-260, figs. 2).— Several of the si)ecies here described as 

 new are of economic importance as parnsltos of insect pests. Among them 

 mention should be made of Ganaspis hookcri, which was reared from the mango 

 fruit fly at Mayaguez, P. R. ; CoccidnxenuH portoriccnsis, reared from the wax 

 scale, at San Juan, P. R. ; Sympiesis metacomet and S. masfiassoit, reared from 

 swamp white oak leaves infested with lAthocoUctcs hamadryella, at Auburn- 

 dale. Mass.; and Anagrufi giraulti, reared from rhthorimcra operculella, at El 

 Monte, Cal. 



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

 Mus., 45 {1913), pp. 309-317, fig. /).— Most of the species here described are of 

 economic importance, among them Polycgstusi focrsteri, Derostenus agromyzcB, 

 D. arizonensis, D. variipes, Entcdon thomsoni, Pleurotropis utahensis, and Cir- 

 rospilus flavoviridis, which are parasitic upon species of flies of the genus 

 Agromyza. 



A new species of mealy bug parasite (Aphycus terryi), D. T. Fullaway 

 {Proc. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, 2 {1913), No. 5, p. 281). — This parasite was reared 

 from Psexulococcus saccharifoJia at 2 localities on the island of Maui and at 

 Hilo, Hawaii. 



Parasites of the San Jose scale, H. T. P'ernald {Ent. News, 25 {1914), No. 1, 

 p 39).— It is stated that during the fall of 1913 from 75 to 85 per cent of the 

 San Jose scale in orchards at Amherst, Mass., appeared to be parasitized by 

 ProspalteUa perniciosi, and that as large a percentage occurred on the small 

 twigs as on the large ones. The evidence at hand is said to indicate that this 

 species is the most active parasite of the San Jose scale in Pennsylvania. See 

 also previous notes (E. S. R., 29, p. 75S). 



Careful examination of twigs from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts indicates 

 that in spite of the high percentage of parasitism it is hardly to be expected 

 that the scale will become an unimportant pest while as high as 10 per cent of 

 the scales are left to reproduce. 



Pteromalids (Pteromalidae) parasitic upon Hessian fly (Mayetiola de- 

 structor) with descriptions of two new species, N. V. Kurdjumov {Reprint 

 from Ent. Viestnik [Kiev], 2 {1913), No. 1, pp. 4, figs. 5; ahs. in Rev. Appl. Ent., 

 2 {1914), Ser. A. No. 2, pp. 65, 66). — ^A description in English is given of 

 Eupteromalus arvensis n. sp., a common parasite of Mayetiola destructor iu 

 Poltava, Moscow, and Kiev, and Meraporus crassicornis n. sp., reared from the 

 Hessian fly's cocoon at Poltava and in Kiev. 



Notes on Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), N. Kurdjumov {Russ. 

 Ent. Ohozr., 13 {1913), No. 1, pp. 1-24, figs. 2).— This paper includes a synopsis 

 of the genera of the subfamily Pteromalinae. 



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Wheat investigations, E. F. Ijudd {North Dakota St<i. Rpt. 1912, pt. S, pp. 

 295-347, figs. 11). — Brief statements are made regarding the wheat investiga- 

 tions carried on in the 5 years which have passed since the experimental mill 

 was installed at the station. These are followed by a number of articles on 

 wheat and milling by T. Sanderson and W. L. Stockham. 



