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the abundance of the Kocky Mountain Locust, in 1885, by Lawrence Bruner; Notes on 

 Locusts at and about Folsom, Cal., by Albert Koebele ; Inseets^Infesting Fall Wheat, by 

 F. M. Webster; Third Report on the Cause of the Destruction of the Evergreen and 

 other Forest Trees in Northern New England, by A. S. Packard (the lepidopterous 

 insects); and Report on Experiments in Apiculture, byN. W. McLain. 



The Second Report on the Injurious and other Insects of New York, by the State Ento- 

 mologist (-279 pages), embraces notes of various insect attacks ; remedies and preventives 

 for insect attacks; miscellaneous notes; and notices of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, 

 Hymenoptera, Orthoptera and Neuroptera. In the Appendix is a list, w'th notes, of the 

 miscellaneous publications of the Entomologist for the years 1882 and 1883, and repub- 

 lication of the rare paper of Dr. Fitch on the Winter Insects ofJEasteim Nei/) York. 



The Report of the Entomologist to the Department of Agriculture of the Dominion of 

 Canada, by James Fletcher (56 pages), is occupied with notices of the principal insect 

 attacks during the year 1885, upon cereals, hay and clover, vegetables, fruits, and forest 

 and shade trees. 



A Report upon Orange Insects (227 pages) presents the investigations of Mr. H. G. Hub- 

 bard, a special agent of the Entomological Division of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, made in Florida, during the years 1881-5. The entire insect fauna of the 

 orange, so far as known, is given, and the species discussed, together with the remedies 

 and preventives which have been found to be the most effective in their destruction. 

 The orange-rust is also considered, and is regarded as a condition of the fruit resulting 

 from the attack of the rust-mite, TypJUodromus oleirorus Ashmead. 



Bulletin No. 11, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology (3-t pages), 

 is devoted to Experiments on various insecticidal substances, chiefly upon insects 

 aiTecting garden-crops, made under the direction of the Entomologist, by F. M. Webster, 

 H. Osborn, and Thomas Bennett. 



iJuZZrfmJV^o. 9, of the same Division, just is.sued, is entitled, Tlie Mulherrij Silk-iporm, 

 being a Manual of Instructions in Silk Culture, by C. V. Riley, M. A., Ph. D. It is a 

 revised and enlarged edition of Special Report No. i of the Division,- which had been 

 exhausted. It contains sixty-two pages, a glossary of terms used, twenty-nine figures, 

 two plates in chromo-lithograph showing silk-worms affected by pebrine and flacherie, 

 and the pebrine corpuscles, after Pasteur, and an index. 



Bulletin No. 12 of the same Division, also just issued, is entitled Miscellaneous Notes cm 

 the M^ork of the Division of Entomology for Season of 18So, prepared by the Entomologist. It 

 is a pamphlet of 46 pages and l plate, and contains a Report on the Production and Man- 

 ufacture of Buhach, by D. W. Coquillett, which is full and of much value; Additions to 

 the 3d Report on the Causes of the Destruction of the Evergreen and other Forests in 

 Northern New England, by A. S. Packard ; The Periodical Cicada in Southwestern Indi- 

 ana, by Amos K. Butler; and Notes of the year, of various Insects. 



The Fourth Report of the U. S. Entomological Commission, on the Cotton Worm, by Prof. 

 C. V. Riley, is a volume of 546 pages, carefully indexed, and illustrated by 64 plates. Of 

 these, 48 plates and 137 pages are devoted to the mechanical devices for the destruction 

 of the cotton-worm. The three chapters treating of the remedies and preventives 

 employed in coping with this insect (70 pages), are especially valuable to the agricultu- 

 rist, as many of them would be equally available against other insect attacks. 



The four large octavo volumes of the Entomological Commission, and its seven Bul- 

 letins, of nearly 3,000 pages in the aggregate, 150 plates, several hundred wood-cuts, 

 and a number of maps, may confidently be appealed to in justification of the action of 

 the General Government, if its wisdom be auestioned, in authorizing and providing for 

 the work of the Commission now brought to a close in its final publication. 



Prof. Riley, in his Presidential Address before the Entomological Society of Washington, 

 as published in the Proceedings of the Society, has referred to some of the insect attacks 

 which had recently come under his observation. 



An Address upon Horticultural Entomology (23 pages), by Prof. F. M. Webster, before the 

 Indiana Horticultural Society, very clearly presents the importance of insect studies to 

 the horticulturist, who may not to any great extent ward off insect attack by the means 



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