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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



HOWARD, Lklaxi) ().— Continued. 

 Report of the Entomologist for 1898. 



Rep. Secy. Agric, 1898, pp. 17-25. 

 An executive report of the work of the 

 Division of Entomology of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. Published also in sepa- 

 rate form. 



The San Jose scale on dried fruit. 



Bull. Div. Ent, U. S. Dept. Agric. (new sc- 

 rios), No. 18, 1898 (Jan. 6, 1899), pp. 7-13. 

 An account of a series of experiments made 

 upon different varieties of fruit dried by dif- 

 ferent commercial methods. It was found 

 that these methods invariably result in the 

 death of the scale, and that therefore Euro- 

 pean restrictions on the importation of 

 American dried fruit are uncalled for. 



The work of Icerya purchasi in Por- 

 tugal, with an account of the introduc- 

 tion from America of Novius cardinaUs. 



Bull. Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric. (new se- 

 ries), No. 18, 1898 (Jan. 6, 1899), pp. .30-35. 

 An account of the introduction of Iccnjn 

 purchasi into Portugal, with a statement of its 

 damage and of the result of the sending Novius 

 cardinaUs from America, which at the time of 

 writing appeared to promise the almost en- 

 tire extermination of the Icerya. 



Cotton-field insects. 



Bull. Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric. (new .se- 

 ries) , No. 18, 1898 (Jan. C, 1899) , pp. 8,V89. 

 A list of insects collected in a cotton field at 

 Victoria, Texas, by the Hon. J. D. Mitchell. 

 The specimens were obtained by means of a 

 trap lantern on a single night in October. 



General notes and notes from cor- 

 respondence. 



Bull. Div. Ent, U. S. Dc^jt. Agric. (new se- 

 ries) , No. 18, 1898 (Jan. G, 1899), pp. 89-101. 

 A number of unsigned notes. 



An insect Ijreeding in crude petro- 

 leum. 



Sci. Amer., i.xxx, No. 5, Feb. 4, 1899, pp. 75, 

 76, 1 fig. 

 An account of Psilopa petrolei Coq., which 

 breeds in crude petroleum pools in the vicin- 

 ity of Los Angeles, California. 



Reprinted in the Pharmaceutical Era, Mar. 

 2, 1899. 



The economic status of insects as a 



Science, ix. No. 216 (new series), Feb. 17, 

 1899, pp. 23.3-217. 

 Address of the retiring president of the Bio- 

 logical Society of Washington, delivered Jan. 

 18, 1899. 



Reprinted in the Scientific American Supple- 

 ment, Nos. 1209, 1210, Mar., 1899. 



HOWARD, Lelaxi) ().— Continued. 



Allorhina as a fruit pest. 



Entomological News, No. 3, Mar., 1S09, p. 71. 



The odor of Coccidse. 



Canadian Entomologist, xxxi.No. 1, April, 

 1899, p. 96. 



The principal insects affecting the 



tobacco plant. 



Yearbuok U. S. Dept. Agric, 1898 (issued 



May 15, 1899), pp. 121-150, figs. 7-31. 



An account of the life histories and habits 



of the principal tobacco insects of the United 



States, with data concerning the remedies 



used. 



Author's extras of this paper were issued 

 May 20, 1899. 



A dipterous parasite of Lachnn.tterna. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., IV, No. 3, :May 24, 

 1899, pp. 198, 199. 

 An account of undescribed dipterous eggs 

 found upon the thorax of Lachnosterna in 

 Greene County, N. Y. 



The Thomson-Mayr priority ques- 

 tion settled. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv. No. 3, May 24, 

 1899, pp. 207, 208. 

 Showing that the encyrtine genera of Gus- 

 tav INIayr take priority over those of C. G. 

 Thomson. 



Butterflies attracted to light at night. 



Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv. No. 3, May 24, 

 1899, pp. 333, 334. 

 An account of instances on record. Pholi- 

 sora catullus is added to the list of species pre- 

 ■viously recorded. 



Notes on Rasahus thoracicus, Xylo- 



copu cubwcola, and Dichelonycha fulgida. 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv, No. 3, May 21, 

 1899. p. 335. 



The extermination of the mosquito. 



Sci. Am. Sup2-)l., XLXii, No. 1222, June 3, 

 1899, p. 19593. 

 Exposes the so-called permanganate of 

 potash remedy. 



Pests of the hop crop. 



The Hop, its Culture, Care, 3Iarketi)ig, and 

 Manufacture. By Herbert My rick. 

 Orange Judd Co., 1899, pp. 113-141, figs. 

 55-72. 

 An account of the habits and life histories 

 of and remedies to be used against the in- 

 sects which affect the hop plant in the United 

 States. 



Author's extras of this article were dis- 

 tributed June 21, 1899. 



JORDAN, David Starr, and EVER- 

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