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ScHLiJTER ( — .). Die Schadlingstafein der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur 



angewandte Entomologie. [Tlie Insect Pest Posters of the 



German Society for Applied Entomology.] — Verh. Deutschen Ges. 



angeiv. Entom., II. Mitgliederversconmlung, Munich, 24-20 



September 1918 ; Berlin, 1919. pp. 130-133. [Received 28th July 



1920.] 



The German Society for Applied Entomology is publishing six 



series of large-sized plates of pests dealing with injurious insects of all 



kinds. Each series is placed under the super\dsion of an entomologist 



of repute ■w'ith special qualifications for the particular work. 



Explanatory circulars are issued in conjunction with the plates. The 



Society has distributed 12,000 prospectuses to schools, magistrates, 



museums, factories, etc. 



FuLMEK (L.) & Stift (A.). Ueber im Jahre 1917 erschienene beraer- 

 kenswerte Mitteilungen auf dem Gebiete der tierischen und 

 pflanzlichen Feinde der KartoHelpflanze. [Communications of 

 Value published in 1917 concerning the Animal and Vegetable 

 Enemies of the Potato.] — Centralbl. Bakt. Paraait. u. InfeUionskr., 

 Jena, lite Abt., li, nos. 12-15, 12th July 1920, pp. 315-336. 

 This is a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject for 



the year 1917. 



KoRNAUTH (K.). Bericht iiber die Landwirtschaftlich-bakteriologische 

 und Pflanzenschutzstation in Wien im Jahre 1919. [Report of 

 the Agricultural, Bacteriological and Plant Protection Station in 

 Vienna in 1919.] — Zeitschr. landtv. Versuchswesen in Deutschoster- 

 reich, Vienna, xxiii, 1920, Sonderheft, pp. 26-41. 

 The results of a number of analyses of insecticides are given. Various 

 proprietary brands of insecticides were also tested. Further experi- 

 ments are being made with tomato decoction against Aphids ; drv 

 tomato leaves give a less favourable result than fresh ones. 



Lyle (G. T.). Contributions to our Knowledge of the British Braconidae. 



— Entomologist, London, viii, no. 687, August 1920, pp. 177-186. 



This paper deals with the sub-family Agathixae and a key to the 

 genera is given. Keys are also given to the species of Agathis and 

 Microdus. 



The species dealt with include Agathis anglica. Marsh., reared from 

 Coleophora. sp. and Depressaria nervosa ; A. brevisetis, Nees, from 

 Coleophora troglodgtella ; Microdus clausthalianus, Ratry., bred from 

 Semasia rnfillana and Depressaria atomella ; and M. cingulipes, Nees, 

 reared from Coleophora sp. 



Wallis (T. E.), Mexican Insects in Poultry Food ; Mexican 



Cantharides, Notonecta, Corixa and Berosus. — Analyst, xliv, 1919, 



no. 521, pp. 284-287. (Abstract in Expt. Sta. Record., Washington, 



D.C., xHii, no. 1, July 1920, p. 53.) 



The author finds that there is a regular commerce in dried insects 



from Mexico for use in poultry feeds, the chief genera present being 



Notonecta and Corixa. Poultry eat such insects with avidity, as they 



form an excellent relish to poultry food no vesicant principle being 



'present. 



