64 JOURNAL OP ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 



L'ALTISE DE LA VIGNE 



F. PICAED 



Le Progres AgTicole et Vitieole. Vol. XXXIV, Feb., 1913. 



The author describes this small leaf beetle {Haltica ampelo- 

 ■plwf/a) which is doing great damage to the grape vines in the 

 central part of France. The adults appear in early spring and 

 eat the leaves, which are very tender at this time. The eggs 

 are laid on the under side of the leaves and the larviB appear in 

 about ten days and live on the leaves. At the beginning of the 

 summer they change to nymphs which work in the ground. In 

 ten days the adults come forth and attack the vines. At the 

 first cold weather they hide under stumps, vegetable mold, etc. 



The multiplication of these insects is held somewhat in check 

 by their natural enemies, other insects and fungi. The methods 

 for destroying them are: shaking them into a receptacle, burn- 

 ing all leaves and rubbish in the winter, and the use of insecti- 

 cides in the spring before the eggs are laid. 



G. Bacon. 



In the last number of "Marcellia", Fac. IV, Vol. XI, 19L3, 

 there are a number of important articles, among them the 

 following: 



The Galls of Africa, by 0. Howard; Galls of Tripoli, by A. 

 Trotter; Arctic and Eussian Galls, by Toepffer. 



AN OEPIIAN COLONY OF POLISTES PALLIPES LEPEL 



C. H. TURNER 



Psyche, Dec, 1912. 



Workers which liad never seen the widow-motlier of the colony 

 nor associated with any other wasps, performed all the activi- 

 ties of such wasps except egg-laying and paper-making. The 

 large larvae after fasting for eight days, feeding on honey only 

 for the next three days and receiving their normal diet for the 

 remainder of their larval life, constructed perfect cocoons and 

 emerged as normal imagoes. The small larvae died. 



