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This Bulletin was started in January, 1926, and contains special 

 articles relating to economic entomology by J. Nonell, M. Benlloch, 

 P. Herce, J. M. Berro, E. Ibarra, F. Gomez Clemente, C. Arroniz. 

 M. Sanchez, A. Cabrera Diaz, D. D. de Torres, J. del Canizo, and 

 others. The Bulletin also contains in each number an excellent bib- 

 liography in which reviews of important works are given with some 

 detail. In the last number received at Washington in October, 1929 

 (the number for December, 1928) there is a long and interesting 

 article by De Torres on the plant-inspection system as it functions in 

 the United States and Canada. There is also a very interesting and 

 well illustrated article on the acclimatization in Spain of Cryptolaemus 

 montronsieri, by F. Gomez Clemente; and another, on a plague of 

 melons (Epilachna chrysomelina) by Del Canizo; while Benlloch and 

 Herce have articles on insecticides, and Del Canizo one on the codling 

 moth. There is also an obituary notice of Leandro Navarro, whom I 

 met in Madrid in 1910. 



This Bulletin of Vegetable Pathology and Agricultural Entomol- 

 ogy was preceded for the years 1923 to 1925 by the Revista de Fito- 

 patologia, of which three volumes were published. This was called 

 the organ of the Service for the Study and Extinction of Forest 

 Plagues under the Director of the Laboratory of Spanish Forest 

 Fauna, D. Manuel Aullo y Costilla. This Revista contained a num- 

 ber of entomological articles, including publications on parasites by 

 R. Garcia Mercet ; others by C. Bolivar y Pieltain, and others. Among 

 them is an important article on the gipsy moth by the Director, 

 M. Aullo. This publication continued through 1928, when it was 

 apparently changed in some respects, and there was begun in October, 

 1929, the publication of the Revista de Biologia Forestal y Lim- 

 nologia, which is termed the Second Series of. the Revista de Fitopa- 

 tologia. The first number is entitled " Series A, No. i." 



The Bulletin of the Royal Spanish Natural History Society has 

 contained entomological articles of economic importance from time to 

 time. Thus, in 1925, it contained articles of this nature by Escalara. 

 Garcia y Mercet, Sanchez y Sanchez, and De More. 



PORTUGAL 



Portugal is one of- the South European countries in which wine- 

 growing has always been one of the more important agricultural 

 industries. The wines of Oporto, for example, have long been 

 famous. Naturally, then, the advent of the grape-vine Phylloxera 

 created a great stir in this country. Work in economic entomology 

 was hardly known before the Phylloxera came. The general interest 



