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other species of insects. Addenda to this report are the following: Re- 

 port on the Locusts of the San Joaquin Valley, Cal., by D. W. Coquillet; 

 Report on the abundance of the Rocky Mountain Locust, in 1885, by 

 Lawrence Bruner; Notes on Locusts at and about Folsom, Cal., b\ 

 Albert Koebele; Insects infest nq Fall wheat, by F. M. Webster; 3rd 

 Report on the Cause of the D struction of the P^vergreen and other 

 Forest trees in Northern New Fngland, by A. S. Packard (the lepidop- 

 terous insects); and Report on Fxperiments in Apiculture, by N. \\'. 

 McLain. 



The Second Repvr/ on the lujurious and other Insects 0/ Neiv York. 

 by the State Entomologist (279 pages), embraces notes of various insect 

 attacks; remedies and preventives for insect attacks; miscellaneous notes: 

 and notices of Lepid 'ptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Orthoptera and 

 Neuroptera. In the .Appendix is a list, with notes, of the miscellaneous 

 publications of the Entomologist for the years 1882 and 1883, ^^id re- 

 publication of the rare paper of Dr. Fitch on the Winter Insects 0/ East- 

 ern New York. 



The Report of the Entojnologisi to the Department of Agr-L iilture of 

 the Dominion of Canada, by James Fletcher, (56 pages), is occupied witli 

 notices of the principal insect attacks during the year 1885, upon 

 cereals, hay and clover, vegetables, fruits, and forest and shade trees. 



K Report upon Orcnge Insects (227 pages) presents the investiga- 

 tions of Mr. H. G. Hubbard, a special agent of the Entomological Di- 

 vision of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, made in Florida, during 

 the years 1881-5. The entire insect fiuna of the orange, so far as known, 

 is given, and the species discussed, together with the remedies anti 

 preventives which have been found to be the most effective in their de- 

 struction. The orange-rust is also considered, and is regarded as a con- 

 dition of the fruit resulting from the attack of the rust-mite, Tvphlodonius 

 oteivorus Ash mead. 



Bulletin Xo. 11, of the U.S. Dcpirtment of Agricntturc, Division of 

 Entomology, (34 pages), is devoted to Experiments on various insecticide 

 substances, chiefly upon insects affecting garden-crops, madti under the 

 direction of the Entomologist, by F. M. Webster, H. Osborn, and 

 Thomas Bennett. 



Bulletin No. 9, of the same Division, just issued, is entitled. The 

 Mulberry Silk-worm; beitig a Manual of Instructiofis in Silk-Culture, liv 

 C. V.Riley, M. A., Ph.D. It is a revised and enlarged edition of 

 Special Report No. 4 of the Division, which had been exhausted. It 

 contains 62 pages, a glossary of terms used, 29 figures, two plates, in 

 chromo-lithograph, showing silk-worms affected by Pebrineand llacherie, 

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



