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1897. Dyer, Harrison, G. — Callimorpha again. Can. I'lnt., Vol. 

 xxix., pp. 97-100, pit. 4. Ontario. 



1897. Elwes and Edwards.— A Revision of the Oriental Hesperiidae. 



Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. xiv., pp. 101-324, pits, xxii-xxvii. 



London. 



1898. Rothschild and .Jordan. — A Monograph of Charaxcs and the 



the allied Prionoptcrous Genera. Xuv. Zool., vol. v., pp. 

 545-605, pit. xiv. A. Tring. 



(To he concluded.) 



(iilURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



Messrs. P. J. Parrott and B. B. Fulton have issued a pamphlet from 

 the New York Agricultural Experimental Station, entitled " Tree 

 Crickets injurious to Orchard and (iarden Fruits." They deal mainly 

 with the three more or less abundant species in the State of New York, 

 Oecanthns itiicus, Oc. aniiustipennis, and Oe. nlijiiroinia. The general 

 characters of these and allied species are given for identification pur- 

 poses, the distribution so far as is known, and also their economic 

 importance, from their predatory habits in attacking other forms of 

 insect life, and from their injurious work upon various cultivated crops. 

 An account is given of the life stages of tree-crickets, and a section is 

 devoted to " Natural Enemies," of which the most common and most 

 efiicient are the egg parasites, eight species of Hymenoptera. The rest 

 of the bulletin is taken up with the detailed observation and experi- 

 ment with the three species referred to and the means of control 

 recommended. The chief damage arises apparently from the establish- 

 ment of a bark disease in the oviposition punctures, which causes the 

 bark of the older trees to become scarred and roughened, or kills the 

 bark on the younger wood. This disease is a micro-fungus, Lejito- 

 sii/iaeria loniuthi/riiiiii, of which spores are probably deposited, (1) as a 

 result of wounds produced by the gnawing of the bark by the female as 

 the initial step in the act of oviposition ; (2) by means of the ovipositor, 

 the adhesive substance discharged at the time of oviposition serving to 

 collect and hold such spores as may be left in and around the holes 

 during the drilling process ; (3) by the remarkable habit of the insect, 

 which employs its own excreta to close the openings in the bark after 

 the deposition of the egg. The chief remedial measures, upon which 

 stress is laid by the authors, are first and most important, clean culture, 

 and if necessary arsenical spraying. Incidentally information is given 

 as to mating habits, musical structures and song of adults, and feed- 

 ing habits. There are ten plates and a number of text figures in 

 illustration. 



The following are interesting and useful articles in the February 

 magazines. The Knt. Mo. May. contains (1) a most important con- 

 tribution by Dr. Chapman, describing larvte and larval habits of Eierca 

 anjlades, with five plates, one of which is coloured. (2) Mr. D. Sharp 

 continues his "Studies in JJtiojdiorinae" in an account of the aedo-agus 

 in that group of Coleoptera. (3) Mr. .J. R. le B. Tomlin continues his 

 account of the Coleoptera obtained in Herefordshire. (4) Mr. Sich 

 gives " Notes on the British species of (hlisenheimeria described by 



