40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CURRENT NOTES. 

 By G. W. Kirkaldy. 



(Continued from p. 12.) 



Geo. H. Carpenter & Denis R. Pack-Beresford, Sept., 1903: 

 "The Relationship of Vespa austriaca to Vespa rufa" ('Irish 

 Naturalist,' xii. pp. 221-38, pi, 2). [Hymenoptera.] 



M. V. Slingerland, 1903 : " The Insects destructive to 

 Fruits" (Thomas' 'American Fruit Culturist,' ed. 21, chap. xii. 

 pp. 160-210, text-figs. 210-78). A practical working manual for 

 the amateur and farmer. Prof. Slingerland's name is a guarantee 

 of the scientific accuracy and the lucidity of the entomological 

 contribution of fifty pages. 



M. V. Slingerland, 1903: "A big fight with Grape Pests" 

 (Proc. Forty-eighth Ann. Meeting Western New York Hort. Soc, 

 pp. 1-4 [? Sep.] ). An account of ravages of the Grape Rootworm 

 [Fidia ) and the Grape Leafhopper {Typhlocyha comes). 



John Fields, E. E. Bogue, and others, Sept., 1903: Bulletin 

 Oklahoma Agr. Exp. Sta. no. 59 (being reprints from Bulletins 

 47, 50, and 52, and Ann. Reports 8-11), pp. 1-200; text-figs. 

 Notices on grape insects. 



W. van De venter : " Insecteneieren welke veel op het suikerriet 

 gevonden worden," 1903 (Archief voor Java-Suikerindustrie, xi. 

 pp. 437-46, pi. vii. & viii.). An important paper on the eggs of 

 certain Javan sugarcane pests. These are delineated in situ and 

 separately. Among these are Hesperia conjmida, Euproctis minor, 

 Prococleca adara, Psalis securis, Dreata petola, Scirpophaga intacta, 

 Chilo infuscatellus, and Diatrcea striatalis among the Lepidoptera, 

 and various unidentified spiders, bugs, and flies. 



A. Zimmermann, 1903 : "Ueber einige auf den Plantagen von 

 Ost- und West-Usambara gemachte Beobachtungen," (Bericht 

 liber Land- und Forstwirtschaft inBeutschostafrika, i. pp. 351-81, 

 pi. iv. (coloured) ). An account of observations made on some of 

 the plantations in German. East Africa, principally of coffee ; a 

 number of injurious insects of different orders are figured with 

 their work, &c. 



"Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation of Economic Entomologists" (Bull. U. S. Div. Entom., 

 new series, 40, 1903, pp. 1-124, 2 plates and 6 text-figs.). The 

 proceedings of last meeting of the above Association were as 

 usual full of general interest. The address of the President 

 (Dr. E. P. Felt) has been previously noted (see Entom. 1903, 

 p. 311). Herbert Osborn (pp. 35-6) gives "a method for 

 mounting Dry Coccidae for permanent preservation." C. L. 

 Marlatt has a most instructive article on "Applied Entomology 

 in Japan " (pp. 56-63), illustrated by two plates, representing 



