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Girault. This species is widely distributed in the United States and 

 Australia, where it is parasitic on the eggs of a Jassid infesting wheat 

 straw. The length of the adult life ranges from 7 to 14 days when 

 fed on sweetened water. This parasite probably plays an insignificant 

 part in the control of the chinch bug and the fact that only two parasites 

 have been reared from a large number of eggs, indicates that parasitism 

 is accidental rather than natural [see also this Review, Ser. A, ii, pp. 

 383 and 384]. 



Weiss (H. B.). Preliminary List of New Jersey Acarina. — Entom. 

 Neivs, Philadelphia, xxvi, no. 4, April 1915, pp. 149-152. 



This list includes the following species : — Bryohia praetiosa, Koch, 

 (pratensis, Garman), clover mite, on leaves of clover and fruit trees ; 

 Tetranychus bicolor, Bks., on apple, silver maple {Acer saccharinvm. L.) 

 and other plants ; T. bimaculatus, Harvey, the common red spider 

 of greenhouses, which attacks roses, carnations, palms, violets, etc., 

 under glass, and in some seasons is a pest on outdoor plants ; 

 T. pilosus on fruit trees ; Microtrombidium locustarum, Walsh, on eggs, 

 nymphs and adults of grasshoppers ; Macrocheles marginatus, Herm.. 

 on the beetle Allorrhina niiida ; Tarsonemus pallidns, Bks., on chrysan- 

 themums under glass ; T. ivaitei, Bks., (peach-bud mite), attacking 

 the terminal buds or shoots of peaches, usually on nursery trees ; 

 Pedicnloides ventricosus, Newp., attacking the larvae of the grain moth 

 {Sitotroga cerealella) and Bruchus quadrimaculatus ; Pediculopsis 

 graminmn, Keuter, found in connection with bud-rot of carnations in 

 greenhouses, which, according to Stewart and Hodgkiss, is caused by 

 Sporotrichum poae ; this mite appears to introduce the spores of the 

 disease to the flower-buds. Treatment consists in promptly picking 

 and burning all infested buds. Tijroglyp)hus farinae, De Geer, infests 

 flour and stored foods ; T. lintneri, Osb. (mushroom mite), sometimes 

 destructive to mushrooms ; Rhizoglyphus phylloxerae, Riley, in 

 asparagus shoots ; and Eriophyes pyri, Pgst. (pear-leaf blister-mite), 

 on pears and sometimes apples. 



Hood (J. D.). On some American Aeolothripidae (Thysanoptera). — 



Enfmn. News, Philadelphia, xxvi, no. 4, April 1915, pp. 162-166, 



2 figs. 

 The paper gives an account of the distribution in America of two 

 species of Frunklinothrijjs, and one species of Aeolothrips. F. vespi- 

 formis, Crawford, has been taken in Nicaragua, Florida, Texas, Canal 

 Zone (Panama) and Moro Island (Panama). F. tenuiformis, 

 sp. n., was found at Moro Island. A. albicinctus, Haliday, 

 has been recorded from Canastota, N.Y., on leaves of 

 maize in August 1912 ; from Chester, N.Y., on onion on 14th 

 August 1912 ; and from Elmira, N.Y., on onion on 1st July 1912. 

 This species also occurs in England, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Italy, 

 Portugal, and Sardinia. 



Baker (A. C.) & Turner (W. F.). The Brown Grape Aphid.— ASaence, 

 Philadelphia, xh, no. 1066, 4th June 1915, p. 834. 



The life-history of Macrosiphum viticola at Vienna, Va., is as 

 follows : — 



The eggs are laid late in October or in November in the axils of the 



