January — February iSSS. 



PSYCHE. 



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Hagen, Hermann August. Experiments with 

 jeast in destroying insects. (Can. entom., 

 Feb. 18S2, V. 14, p_. 38-39.) ([13th] rept. 

 Entom. soc. Ontario, \'i&2, p. 29-30.) 



Publishes, with comments, letter from horticulturist 

 giving result of experiments with yeast fungus, — one 

 apparently successful, others without effect. Reports 

 similar variable results from Germany. 



S. A. F. (4360) 



[Hagen, Hermann August. On the de- 

 struction of insect pests by the application 

 of yeast.] (Amer. monthly micros. Journ., 

 Sept. 18S2, V. 3, p. 179.) 

 Brief mention of Hagen's views. S. A. F. (4361) 



1883. 

 Bessey, C: Edwin. A new species of insect- 

 destroying fungus. (Amer. nat., Dec. 1883, 

 V. 17, p. 12S0-1281, 1286.) Bull. Iowa 

 agric. coll.; Dept. entom., 1884, No. 2, 

 p. 84-85.) 

 Description oi entomophthora calopteni n. sp. 



S. A. F. (4362) 



Bessey, C : Edwin. \^E7itomofkthora calop- 

 teni parasitic on caloptemcs differentialis.~\ 

 (Scientific and literary gossip, 15 Dec. 1SS3, 

 V. 2, p. 40.) s. A. F. (4363) 



Burrill, T: Jonathan. New species of ;«/c-ro- 

 coccus (^bacteria). (Amer. nat., March 

 1883, V. 17, p. 319-320.) 



Original description of »;/'<rro<roc«<s insectorum from 

 chinch bug [blissiis leucopteriis). S. A. F. (4364) 



Cook, Albert J: The bee-keepers' guide, or 

 Manual of the apiary. 9th ed. 1S83, p. 309, 

 310. 

 Remarks on foul brood of bees. S. A. F. (4365) 



Forbes, Stephen Alfred. Experiments with 

 diseased caterpillars. (Science, 5 Oct. 1883, 

 V. 2, p. 483-4S4.) 



Preliminary note on bacterial disease of native cater- 

 pillars. 5. A. F. (4366) 



Forbes, Stephen Alfred. A new insect 

 disease. (Prairie farmer, 6 Oct. 1883, v. — , 

 p. -.)_ 

 Flacherie oi pieris rapae. S. A. F. (4367) 



Forbes, Stephen Alfred. Memoranda with 

 regard to the contagious diseases of cater- 

 pillars and the possibility of using the 

 virus of the same for economic purposes. 

 (Amer. nat., Nov. 1883. v. 17, p. 1169-1170.) 

 (Can. entom., Sep. iSS3,v. 15, p. 171-172.) 

 Abstract of article read at Minneapolis meeting of 



the A. A. A. S. S. A. F. (436S) 



Forbes, Stephen Alfred. On a contagious 

 disease of caterpillars. (Trans. 111. hort. 

 soc, 1883, p. 29.) 



General article, giving account of results of original 

 observations and experiments. S. A. F. (4369) 



DE La Cour, J. L. Sforendonema; or the 

 fungus which is now so prevalent among 

 house-flies. (Amer. monthly micros, journ., 

 Jan. 1S83, V, 4, p. 19.) 

 Rehearsal of general facts concerning Empusa 



muscae. S. A. F. (4370) 



Osborn, Herbert. An epidemic disease of 

 calopte7iiisdifferejiiialis. (Bull. Iowa agric. 

 coll.; Dept. entom., Aug. 1884, no. 2, p. 

 83-86.) (Amer. nat., Dec. 18S3, v. 17, 

 p. 1286-1287.) 



Account of entomophthorous disease generally 

 prevalent in central Iowa, affecting caloptenus differen- 

 tialis. S. A. F. C4371) 



Riley, C : Valentine. [Remark on an epi- 

 demic disease of calopte?ius differentialis.'] 

 (Amer. nat., Dec. 1883, v. 17, p. 1287.) 

 (Bull. Iowa agric. coll.; Dept. ent., Aug. 

 1884, no. 2, p. 85.) 



Riley surmises that insects died from insect para- 

 sitism, and that entomophthora is a later development. 



S. A. F. (4372) 



Riley, C : Valentine. The cabbage plusia. 



(Rept. [U. S.J Commiss. agric. 1883), 



p. 121. 



Fungus disease reported. Parasite described by 

 Farlow as botrytis rileyi. S. A. F. (4373) 



1884. 



Burrill, T : Jonathan. Experiments in silk 



culture. (i2th rept. Board of trustees 111. 



industrial univ., 1S84, p. S5-92.) 



Account of contagious disease of silkworm which 



destroyed all but a few hundred of about So.ooo worms 



hatched for an experiment in silk culture. (ieneral 



discussion of /facZ/^r/V of silkworm. 6'. A. F. (4374) 



Fletcher, James. [Muscardine in agrotis 

 Jennica.'] (Can. entom., Nov. 1S84, v. 16, 



p. 214.) (15th ann. rept. Entom. soc. 



Ontario, 1885, p. 21.) 



Destruction of great numbers of larvae of agrotis 

 fennica by an entomophthora. S. A. F. 14375) 



New York microscopical club. [Pro- 

 ceedings] June 6. (Science, 4 Jul. 1884, 

 V. 4, p. 25.) 



Account, by J. L. Zabriskie, of a coniomycetous 

 fungus on tirosophila, a few specimens having been 

 found in the state of New York; and description, by 

 C : H. Peck, of this fungus as a new genus and species 

 {appendicularia entomophila) allied to cordyceps. 



S. A. F. (4376) 



