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New York State Museum : 13Lh and 14th Reports of the State Ento- 

 mologist. Albany, N. Y. 1898. 



A melancholy intei'est attaches to the first of these Reports, inasmuch as it is 

 the last of a long series by the pen of the late Dr. J. A. Lintner. It is thinner than 

 usual, but put together in the same manner as its predecessors, and full of interesting 

 matter on a variety of subjects, the chief of which are Tenthredo rufopectux, Uro- 

 cerus albicornis, Eacles imperialis, and Lygus pratensii. The author regards 

 Urocerus (Sirex) as comparatively harmless in the States, and says that usually 

 it only attacks diseased and dying trees, which we venture to think is by no 

 means the case in Europe. After Dr. Lintner's death there were several names 

 mentioned in connection with his successor. 



The introductory remarks to the 14th Report are signed by Dr. E. P. Felt as 

 Acting State Entomologist : he had been Dr. Lintner's assistant, and part of some 

 preceding Reports had been contributed by him. 



With this 14th Report a different form is commenced, probably with the idea 

 of giving space for larger plates. It occurs to us that the illustrations in the text 

 are better than in some former annual Vols., and there are numerous plates, those 

 giving the aspect (from photographs) of forest trees defoliated by caterpillars being 

 specially interesting and instructive, and they are artistic samples of " half tone " 

 process work. Although the form is changed the plan remains the same, and we 

 congratulate Dr. Felt on having made a good start. The important item of biblio- 

 graphy is on even a more extended scale than formerly. The defoliating " tent " 

 caterpillars take a prominent position. Amongst other and varied subjects a 

 chapter is devoted to the heat-loving Lepisma domestica (Tkennobia furnorum), 

 which caused a good deal of attention in this country a few years ago, assuming 

 that the Old and New World forms are identical, about which there seems little 

 doubt. 



Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletins 48 and 49. 

 Deland, Fla. E. O. Painter and Co. 1898. 



We have pleasure in noticing these two Bulletins. The first by P. H. Rolfs 

 concerns Diseases of the Tomato, mostly caused by fungi, the principal insect 

 enemy being Heliothis armigera (the "boll worm ") : the second, by A. L. Quain- 

 tance, is on Insect enemies of the Tobacco, which are mainly Lepidopterous, and of 

 which the most important are two species of Sphinx moths, and a leaf-mining 

 Oelechia. These Bulletins are sent free to any address in the State of Florida upon 

 application to the Director of the Station. 



Societies. 



Birmingham Entomological Society : Fehruary 20th, 1899. — Mr. P. W 

 Abbott, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. C. Bradley showed some rare PkycidcB and Galleriidce, &c., presented to 

 the type collection by Dr. P. B. Mason. Mr. F. T. Fountain, Sphinx ligustri from 

 Salford Priors. He said that he found larvae in 1897 on privet, but on searching in 

 the same place in 1898 ho could only find two on privet, but found a number on 



