64 JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 
L’ALTISE DE LA VIGNE 
F, PICARD 
Le Progres Agricole et Viticole. Vol. XXXIV, Feb., 1913. 
The author describes this small leaf beetle (Haltica ampelo- 
phaga) which is doing great damage to the grape vines in the 
central part of France. The adults appear in early spring and 
eat the leaves, which are very tender at this time. The eggs 
are laid on the under side of the leaves and the larve appear in 
about ten days and live on the leaves. At the beginning of the 
summer they change to nymphs which work in the ground. In 
ten days the adults come forth and attack the vines. At the 
first cold weather they hide under stumps, vegetable mold, ete. 
The multiplication of these insects is held somewhat in check 
by their natural enemies, other insects and fungi. The methods 
for destroying them are: shaking them into a receptacle, burn- 
ing all leaves and rubbish in the winter, and the use of insecti- 
cides in the spring before the eggs are laid. 
G. Bacon. 
In the last number of ‘‘Marcellia’’, Fac. IV, Vol. XI, 1913, 
there are a number of important articles, among them the 
following: 
The Galls of Africa, by C. Howard; Galls of Tripoli, by A. 
Trotter; Arctic and Russian Galls, by Toepffer. 
AN ORPHAN COLONY OF POLISTES PALLIPES LHPEL 
Cc. H. TURNER 
Psyche, Dece., 1912. 
Workers which had never seen the widow-mother of the colony 
nor associated with any other wasps, performed all the activi- 
ties of such wasps except egg-laying and paper-making. The 
large larve after fasting for eight days, feeding on honey only 
for the next three days and receiving their normal diet for the 
remainder of their larval life, constructed perfect cocoons and 
emerged as normal imagoes. The small larve died. 
