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proved that Siphocoryne avence, Fabr., feeds on a great number 

 of plants, including apple, pear, cberry, hawthorn, celery, wheat, 

 oats, and various grasses, and is the Aphis mali, Fitch, pruni- 

 folice, Fitch, &c. The genuine Aphis mali, DeGeer, has only 

 quite recently appeared in America. Macrosiphum granaria, 

 Buckton* (formerly confused with Siphocoryne avence) , M. cerealis, 

 Kalt., and trifolii, Perg., n. sp., are fully discussed. It seems a 

 pity to introduce " vulgar " names with almost every species, as 

 is the custom with the American entomologists ; " German 

 grain louse," "English grain louse," and "European grain 

 louse " are not only not distinctive, but even misleading. 



The School of Agriculture in Portici, near Naples, are rapidly 

 turning out entomological studies second to none in accuracy 

 and thoroughness. Two of the recent publications embrace a 

 monographical revision (23) of the Parlatoria and Mytilaspis 

 (recte Lepidosaphes) groups of the Coccidas. Unfortunately only 

 reprints (separately paged, alas !) are before me, so that it can 

 only be said that the Parlatoria paper extends to 59 pages with 

 16 cuts, the Mytilaspis 114 with 42 cuts. 



Spaulding (24) remarks that the relations existing between 

 some of the fungi and the wood-boring insects is as yet but little 

 understood, and its economic significance probably much under- 

 rated. He states that on rotting logs of Pinus palustris, in 

 Texas, two species of fleshy Agaricoid fungi were growing out 

 numerously from the holes of wood-boring insects. The latter 

 are present in every log in large numbers, and, although many 

 of the holes had no fungus growing in them, the two fungi were, 

 with a single exception, never found growing otherwise. Various 

 other cases are cited, including the "Ambrosia-beetles," which 

 prepare beds for and plant the spores, feeding exclusively, so 

 far as is known, on the fruiting portions of the fungi. 



Osborn (25) discusses the prominence into which the Ful- 

 gorida3 have risen through the comparatively recent discovery of 

 their economic importance. 



Montana is one of the last of the United States to appoint an 

 entomologist, in the person of Mr. R. A. Cooley, the well-known 

 student of Coccidae. A large portion of his first report (28) 

 deals with "Locusts," and with notes on fruit-pests, &c. It is 

 largely illustrated. Baer (29) publishes a brief note on the 

 relations between Enchenopa ferruginea, Buckton, and Campo- 

 notus punctulatus, Mayr, with remarks on other Myrmecophiles. 

 Bueno (31) records the occurrence, in British Columbia, of Noto- 

 necta lutea, Miiller, a European form. 



* This name cannot be considered valid, as Buckton refers his species to 

 granaria, Kirby. I propose avenivorum, n. n. 



