WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 303 



entomology and had republished live books. He gave a list of 2t, 

 Russian towns in which bureaus of entomology existed at that time. 



An account of Russian economic entomology should by no means 

 omit special mention of the admirable work of T. Shevyrew (1859- 

 1920) whose investigations of the bark-beetles and of the biology of 

 certain parasitic Hymenoptera should l>e better known to the scien- 

 tific world and more often quoted. My attention was drawn to the 

 work of this excellent investigator as early as 1908 by J. Kotinsky, 

 but the language difficulty has prevented me from understanding 

 many of his publications. 



During 1914 there appeared in the Review of Applied Entomology 

 reviews of many Russian articles, the authors of which seem to have 

 disappeared during the war. 



In 1914 Porchinsky published also a long and important report of 

 " The Principal Mites Found in Grain and Flour and Some Infor- 

 mation for the Discovery of Injurious Insects in Grain Stores." 



One of the most important articles published during this period was 

 by M. N. Rimsky-Korsakov, on the Chalcids of the genus Isosoma 

 injurious to grain crops in Russia. It is a pamphlet of 84 pages, with 

 50 figures, 3 plates, describing several new species and including some 

 attention to the parasites of these joint worms. Practical suggestions 

 as to remedies are included. 



In spite of the war, Russian publications continued in large number 

 and reached England so as to be carefully reviewed in the Review of 

 Applied Entomology. A notable article published at Kiev in 191 5 

 by D. N. Borodin describes an outbreak of Contarinia tritici, Kirby. 

 This is the insect formerly known as the wheat midge in the United 

 States. It was imported for the first time into Russia in Poltava in 

 1912, and in 1914 occurred in great numbers. 



Among the Russian economic entomologists who died either during 

 the great war or just after it, are the following: 



E. M. Vassiljew, died July, 1919. 



N. V. Kurdiumov, died September 7, 1917. 



V. N. Rodzjanko, died in 1919. 



A. A. Silantjew, died March 21, 1918. 



D. A. Sopotsko, died May i, 1919. 



J. T. Schreiner, died July, 1918. 



And then too, N. A. Cholodkovsky, who died in April, 1921 ; V. T. 

 Oshanin, who died in January, 191 7, and D. A. Smirnow who died 

 August 17, 1920, might also be ranked as economic workers since 

 many of their papers touched on economic entomology. I gain these 

 dates from an article by Walther Horn in Entomologische Mitteil- 

 ungen for September, 1921. 



