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Pests of minor importance are cutworms, wireworms. Diaprepes 

 spengleri, etc. E. fuscata is usually abundant throughout the season 

 in the districts east of Arecibo and San German, while E. pirvula is 

 less numerous but more widely spread. Plants in seed beds and those 

 newly planted out are very liable to attack, while older plants are also 

 injured. Dry arsenate of lead and finely powdered wood ashes mixed 

 together are recommended for dusting over the plants. The mixture 

 should not contain more than 50 per cent, of lead arsenate. S. dida^- 

 tylus causes serious injury in seed-beds. A suitable remedy consists 

 in scattering a mixture consisting of three parts Paris green and 97 

 parts Hour among the plants. P. sexta is normally checked by a 

 Proctotrupid parasite of the egg and by a Dipterous and a Braconid 

 parasite of the larva. When exceptionally abundant, it can be 

 controlled by the lead arsenate and wood ash mixture and by hand- 

 picking. 



TiMBERLAKE (P. H.). RevisioH of the Parasitic Hymenopterous Insects 

 of the Genus AphijciL<, Mayr, with Notice of some Related Genera, 

 — Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Washington. 1, no. 2130, 31st Mav 

 1916. pp. 561-640, 6 plates. 



Descriptions are given of the following genera : — Aphyciis, Mavr, 

 Pseudococcobius, gen. n., Bothricraera. gen. n., Acerophagii^, Smith, 

 Psaulophi/cus, Claus., Aenasioidea, Gir.. and Aphycopsis, gen. n., 

 with keys to the species contained in them. 



CocKERELL (T. D. A.) & RoBiNsox (Elizabeth). Descriptions and 

 Records of Coccidae.— 5;///. American Mus. Xat. Hist.. Xcic York, 

 xxxiv, 1915, pp. 105-111, 2 plates. [Received 26th June 1916.] 



The follo^^-ing species of Coccidae are recorded: — Trio)ii/nius viola- 

 scen^, Ckll., on grasses in Colorado ; Eriococciis costaricensi^, sp. n , 

 on Vaccinium from Costa Rica; E. tinsJeyi, Ckll., on Mai vast rum 

 coccincum in Colorado ; Pseudococciis JilamcrJosus, Ckll.. on Coffea 

 from Mindanao : Gossyparia spuria. Mod., on elm bark from Colorado ; 

 Fonscolombia braggi, sp. n., on roots of Berberis re pens from Colorado ; 

 Ripersia trichura, Ckll., in nests of Lasius american}(s and Formica sp. 

 from Colorado ; Aspidiotus transhicens, Ckll., on Carica pjpaya, 

 Dioscorea ala-ta, Aleurites nuduccana, Mangifera indica and Codiaeum 

 from the Philippines ; Hemichionaspis aspidistras, Sign. ; Aspidiofus 

 ehrhorni. Coleman, on Abies and Libocedrus and among lichens on the 

 bark of Pseudotsuga mucronata from Colorado ; Chrysomphalus 

 ■pedroniformis, sp. n., on the bark of Tit is I'inifera from the Philippine 

 Islands ; Fiorinia phantasma, sp. n., on leaves of Xeolitsea from the 

 Philippines ; Pseudaonidia obsita, sp. n., on leaves of Ficus caudxiti- 

 folia from the Philippines ; Pinnaspis sipJion^ydontis, sp. n., and Xeole- 

 canium cribrigerum, sp. n., on the leaves of Siphonodon eelastrineus and 

 Piper loheri, respectively, from the Philippines. 



