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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



HAY, W. V. Description of two new 

 species of crayfish. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxii, No. 1187, Oct. 



11, 1899, pp. 121-123, 2 te.xt figs. 



Two new species of erayfl.sh {Cambarus 



pilosus and C. clypcatus) from Kansas and 



Mississippi, respectively, are described and 



figured. 



HOLMES, William H. A preliminary 

 revision of the evidence relating to 

 auriferous gravel man in California. 



Am. Anthropologist (new series), I, Part i, 

 Jan., 1899, pp. 107-120; Part ii, Oct., 

 1899, pp. 614-645. 



HOUGH, Walter. Oriental influences 

 in Mexico. 



Am. Anthropologist (new series), ii. No. 1, 

 Jan.-Mar., 1900, pp. 66-74. 

 This paper points out the great influx of 

 oriental arts and products into Mexico sub- 

 sequent to the discovery of the Philippines. 



HOWARD, Lelani) O. Spider bites and 

 ' ' Kissing bugs. ' ' 



Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, Nov., 

 1899, LVI, No. 1, pp. 31-42, 7 figs. 

 Gives an account of the newspaper scare of 

 the summer of 1899 in regard to the insects 

 popularly known as kissing bugs; describes 

 the habits of 7 species of heteropterous insects 

 concerned in the comparatively small num- 

 ber of bites which gave rise to the scare. 



A remedy for gadflies; Porchin- 



ski's recent discoveries in Eussia, with 

 some American observations. 



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

 series). No. 20, Nov., 1899, pp. 24-28. 

 Showing how Porchinski has discovered 

 that gadflies (Tabanidse) frequent pools of 

 water for drinking purposes and are captured 

 and destroyed by a kerosene film on the sur- 

 face of the water; showing also how the 

 writer had discovered this same drinking 

 habit and mentioned it in his original ac- 

 count of an experiment against mosquitoes, 

 in Insect Life, vol. v, p. 13. 



The present status of the Caprifig 



experiments in California. 



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

 series),No. 20, Nov.,1899, pp 28-35. Re- 

 printed in Scientific American Supple- 

 ment, Feb. 3, 1900, pp. 20144,20146. 

 An account of the introduction and estab- 

 lishment of Blastophaga grossorum at Fresno, 

 Cal., under the auspices of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, together with a brief re- 

 view of the habits of the insect and the fer- 

 tilization of the figs in oriental regions. 



HOWARD, Lelani) O. Report of the 

 entomologist for 1899. 



Kep. Secy. Agric, 1899, pp. 43-52 (Dec, 



1899). 



An account of the work of the Division of 



Entomology for the fiscal year ending June 



30, 1899, with recommendations concerning 



future work. 



An interesting case of the use of 



insects as food. 



Scientific American, Feb. 3, 1900, p. 71. 

 An account of the use of the "Bugong 

 Moth" [Agrotis infusa Boisduval) by the na- 

 tives of Australia. 



The two most abundant Piilvina- 



rias on maple. 



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

 series), No. 22, Feb. 20, 1900, pp. 7-23, 17 

 figs. 

 Full biology of Pulvinaria innumerabilis 

 Rathvon and P. acericola Walsh and Riley. 



The insects to which the name 



" Kissing bug" was applied during the 

 summer of 1899. 



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

 series), No. 22, Feb. 20, 1900, pp. 24-30, 7 

 figs. 



General notes and notes from i^or- 



respondence. 



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

 series), No. 22, Feb. 20, 1900, pp. 93-109. 

 A number of unsigned notes. 



Progress in economic entomology 



in the United States. 



Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agric, 1899, June 1, 

 1900, pp. 135-156, 1 pi. 

 Account of the development of economic 

 entomology during the present century. 



A new genus of Aphelinina> from 



Chile. 



Canadian Entomologist, xxxii, Juiu', 1900, 

 pp. 167, 168. 

 Description of Aphytisn. g., chilensis, u. sp. 



HOWARD, Leland O., and MARLATT, 

 C. L. The original home of tlie San 

 Jose scale. 



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

 .series). No. 20, Nov., 1899, pp. 36-38. 

 Discusses the different theories as to the 

 original home of the San Jose scale, and con- 

 cludes that nothing more definite can be said 

 with certainty than had already been said in 

 Bulletin No. 3 (new series). Division of En- 

 tomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 by the authors. 



