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of foul -brood eradication may be facilitated. These regulations provide 

 that honey bees shall be kept only in movable frame hives permitting 

 of ready examination. Bees kept in any other form of hive are 

 subject to destruction by the county inspector at the owner's expense. 

 County quarantines provide that no bees, honey, appliances or other 

 things capable of transmitting foul-brood shall be moved or shipped 

 into the counties under quarantine unless accompanied by the health 

 certificate of the County Apiary Inspector of the county whence the 

 material capable of transmitting the disease is moved, or, if there is no 

 county inspector in the county whence these originate, inspection 

 must take place immediately upon their arrival at their destination. 



Morrill (A. W.). Cotton Pests in the Arid and Serai-arid Southwest. 

 — Jl. Econ. Entom., Concord, N.H., x, no. 3, June 1917, 

 pp. 307-317. 



This paper reviews the more destructive insect enemies of cotton 

 in the south-western States, with special reference to their geographical 

 distribution. The species dealt with include : — Hemiptera : 

 CMorochroa ligata, Euschistus imjnciiventris, Dysdercus albidiventris 

 (cotton-stainer), Euryophthalmus (Largus) succinctus, Leptoglossus 

 zonatus (leaf- footed plant bug), L. phyUopns, L. opposiHis, and Lygus 

 pratefisis (tarnished plant bug), and its varieties. Orthoptera : 

 Melanoplus differentialis, Schistocerca vega and S. sJioshone. Lepidop- 

 tera : Heliothis ohsoleta (cotton bollworm), Alabama argillacea (cotton 

 leaf- worm), Estigmene acraea (salt-marsh caterpillar), Prodenia orni- 

 ihogalli (cotton boll cutworm), Hyphantria cunea (fall web worm), 

 Euxoa {Chorizagrotis) agrestis (western army cutworm), Bucculatrix 

 thurheriella (cotton leaf -perforator), and an undetermined bollworm 

 which attacks the bolls of Arizona wild cotton. Coleoptera : Antho- 

 nonius grandis (Mexican cotton-boll weevil), and A. grandis thurberiae. 

 Homoptera : Aphis gossypii {cotton aphis), and a species of Aleurodid. 

 Thysanoptera : Heliothrips fasciafus (bean thrips), and occasionally 

 Microthrips piercei. Acarina : Teiranychus bimaculatus (two-spotted 

 mite) and Eriophyes thurberiae (wild cotton blister mite). 



A comparison is made between conditions in the arid south-west, 

 whence 23 injurious species are recorded, and the States east of the 

 98th meridian, where 42 insect pests of cotton are found. Since the 

 introduction of the pink bollworm {Pectinophora gossypiella) into 

 northern Mexico, the North American continent is faced wath the most 

 serious menace to the cotton industry that has ever appeared. 



A bibliography of 23 works is given. 



Severin (H. H. p.). Mediterranean Fruit-fly {Ceratitis capitata, Wied.) 

 breeds in Bananas.— JL Econ. Entom., Concord, N.H., x, no. 3, 

 June 1917. pp. 318-321. 



As some doubt had been expressed as to the accuracy of a statement 

 previously made by the author, namely, that the fruit-fly had been 

 bred from bananas, the present paper has been written for the purpose 

 of establishing definitely the fact that Ceratitis capitata can be bred 

 from bananas under field conditions, and that this has been done by 

 various observers on more than one occasion. The author adds that 

 in the Hawaiian Islands certain varieties of bananas are not immune 

 from the attacks of the Mediterranean fruit-fly under natural conditions. 



