Twelfth Report op the State Entomologist 34&' 



Thousand-Legged Worms Infesting Greenhouses. (Gardening, for Ma)r 

 I, 1896, iv, pp. 251, 252, cols. 2, 3, 1 — 47 cm.) 



Thousand-legged worms are reported as abounding in greenhouses 

 at Kansas City, Mo., and not controlable by ordinary applications. 

 From examples sent, the Myriapod is briefly described and identified 

 as one of the flattened millepeds near to Polydcsmus coniplanatiis of 

 Europe, which has not been recognized in this country. Polydesuius 

 Canadensis is probably the species found to be so injurious by Dr. 

 Fitch in this country. Many of the Myriapods feed only on decaying 

 vegetable matter. Soot is said to drive them away. Kerosene or a 

 strong kerosene emulsion will kill them ; pyrethrum and hellebore 

 might be tried. Baiting with chips, slices of carrots, etc., recom- 

 mended Removal of the manure in the house in which they may 

 have bred is advised. 



[Extended in pp. 300-303 of this Report (xii).] 



A Handbook of British Lepidoptera. By Edward Meyrick. (The 

 Nation, Ixii, May 14, 1896, p. 385, cols. 2, 3 — t^t^ cm.) 



In a review of the above work, its comprehensiveness, completeness,, 

 and general excellence is commended. It contains descriptive text of 

 2061 species Analytical keys for the determination of the higher 

 groups so complete have rarely if ever been given Its new system of 

 classification is noticed, based on the author's study for years, of the 

 Lepidoptera of the World. The system is so revolutionary as to be 

 almost startling, but it is presented as a natural one, as based on re- 

 semblances resulting from traced community of descent. It is in 

 accordance with the views advanced in Darwin's " Origin of Species," 

 and has apparently been so carefully elaborated that in all probability 

 it will have to be generally accepted by American Systematists. From 

 . the intimate relationship of the Lepidoptera of Great Britain and of 

 the United States, the volume will be almost indispensable to American 

 Students of Lepidopterology. 



Elm-Leaf Beetle. (Country Genileman, for May 14, 1896, Ixi, p. z^d, 

 c. 3 — 6 cm.) 



Examples sent with inquiry from Gaylordsville, Conn., taken on an 

 attic window, are identified as Galeriicella xaiitJwmelcena, now G. 

 Inteola. They had doubtless just wakened from their winter's sleep in 

 the attic and when found were seeking to escape to the elm for feed- 

 ing and subsequent oviposition. 



The Harlequin Cabbage Bug. (Gardening, for May 15, 1896, iv, p. 266, 

 cols. 2, 3 — 26 cm.) 



Insects destructive to cabbage and cauliflower in Tracy City, Tenn., 

 are the harlequin cabbage bug, Miirga?itia histrionica. Its northward 

 spread from Mexico is noticed, also its habits, and method of destroy- 

 ing it by drawing the early insects to mustard, cabbage stumps and 

 sprouts for convenient killing, and by crushing the eggs. 



