178 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 85 



Kalmbach, E. R. 



1914. Birds in relation to the alfalfa weevil. Bull. 107, U. S. Dep. Agr., 

 64 PP-, 5 pis. Forty-five species of birds found to feed on this 

 comparatively recently introduced pest; also domestic fowls, toads, 

 frogs, salamanders, horned-toads, snakes, and shrews. 



McAtee, W. L. 



1914. Bird enemies of Diabroticas. The Auk, vol. 31, no. i, p. 120, Jan. 



Southern corn root worm (Diabrotica duodecim-pnnctata) recorded 

 as preyed upon by 24 species of birds ; western corn root worm 

 {Diabrotica longicornis) taken by the nighthawk and the wood 

 pewee. 



1915. Bird enemies of two beetle pests. The Auk, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 377- 



378, July. Oncideres pntator — it is believed that the southern downy 

 woodpecker and the Texas woodpecker attack the larvae of this 

 pest. Monocrepidiiis vespcrtinns— the records show that these 

 beetles are devoured by eight species of birds. 



Mail, G. Allen. 



1930. Winter soil temperatures and their relation to subterranean insect 

 survival. Journ. Agr. Research, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 572-592, Oct. 15. 

 Few parasites ; mites, birds, fungal and bacterial diseases reduce 

 them, but climate a control factor of much importance. 



MuiR, F. 



1917. The introduction of Scolia manilae Ashm. into the Hawaiian Islands. 

 Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 207-210, June. A parasite 

 of the beetles Anomala oricntalis and Adoretus tenuimacidatus. 



[Nelson, E. W.] 



192 1. Report of chief of Bureau of Biological Survey, 34 pp. Bird enemies 

 of the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica) mentioned (p. 14) ; five 

 species of birds and the toad listed. 



QUAINTANCE, A. L., AND JeNNE, E. L. 



1912. The plum curculio. Bull. 103, U. S. Bur. Ent., 250 pp., 20 pis., Zi 



figs. Natural enemies (pp. 139-154) include an egg parasite, 



hymenopterous and dipterous parasites of later stages, ants, chry- 



sopids, carabids, lampyrids, fowls and wild birds ; also the toad. 



Satterthwait, a. F. 



1919. How to control billbugs destructive to cereal and forage crops. 

 Farmers' Bull. 1003, U. S. Dep. Agr., 23 pp., 24 figs. Insect, 

 worm, and fungus parasites, toad and bird predators mentioned, 

 the birds apparently most important (pp. 19-20). 

 Schuster, W. 



1909. [Beetles and their enemies in the bird world.] Ent. Blatt. Niirnberg, 

 vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 142-144, July 15. Birds the principal enemies of 

 beetles; notes on European bird foes of various families of beetles; 

 similar notes for Lepidoptera. 

 Slingerland, M. V. 



1906. The bronze birch borer : an insect destroying the white birch. Bull. 

 234, Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta., pp. 65-78, figs. 31-38. Agrilus anxius. 

 Woodpeckers and chalcid parasites mentioned as foes. 



