10 [1470-1487] 
Grote, A: Radcliffe. The species of erotyla, 
spragueia, fruva, xanthoptera, exyra and prothy- 
mia. (Can. entom., Dec. 1879, vy. 11, p. 231- 
238.) 
Describes the neuration of most of the species, with de- 
scriptive and synonymical notes ; catalog of the species. 
B: P.M. (1470) 
Hagen, Hermann August. Among the bugs. 
A forenoon with an entomologist. Interesting 
facts about insects in general and one in par- 
. ticular. (Bost. evening journ., 11 July 1879, 
y. 46, no. 15283, p. [1], col. 6-7, 96 em.) 
Account of a visit to Dr. Hagen, at the Museum of com- 
parative zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; habits of anthrenus 
scrophulariae, and means against it. B: P.M. (1471) 
Hagen, Hermann August. Museum pests. 
(Journ. applied sci., June 1879, vy. 10, p. 90-91, 
104 em.) 
Reprint of the author’s ‘* Museum pests observed in the 
entomological collection at Cambridge [Mass.] ’’ [PsycHe, 
Rec., no. 1473], g. v. G: D. (1472) 
Hagen, Hermann August. Museum pests ob- 
served in the entomological collection at Cam- 
bridge |Mass.]. (Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., 
Jan. [5 Feb.] 1879, v. 20, p. 56-62.) 
Abstract. (Nature, 29 May 1879, v. 20, p. 
106, 17 cm.) 
Reprint, entitled, “ Museum-pests.” (Journ. 
applied sci., June 1879, v. 10, p. 90-91, 104 cm.) 
Treats of species of dermestes, attagenus, anthrenus, pti- 
nus, tribolium, sylvanus, tinea, atropus, clothilla, an acarus 
(probably tyroglyphus), psocus and oecophora; compares 
the ravages of insects in European with those in American 
collections. G: D. (1473) 
Hagen, Hermann August. The yellow fever 
fly. (Boston d. advertiser, 21 July 1879, no 
22121, v. 133, no. 173, p. [1], col. 3.) 
Information sought about a fly which appears at the 
times of outbreak of yellow fever in the southern United 
States. B: P. M. (1474) 
Heustis, Caroline Eliza. [Papilio thoas.] (Can. 
entom., Dec. 1879, v. 11, p. 239-240.) 
Dates of pupation and imagination of p. thoas in New 
Brunswick. BEM, Alaa) 
Insect pest to the fruit crop of Santa Clara 
Valley (An). (“San Jose times,” 10 Aug. 
1879.) (Weekly bulletin, San Francisco, Cal., 
14 Aug. 1879, v. 24, no. 29,...,17 cm.) 
Also entitled, ‘‘ A pest to the apple and pear crop of the 
Santa Clara valley.’’ The ‘‘red scale louse ”’ or ‘‘red scale,”’ 
first noticed near San Jose, Cal., 3 or 4 years ago, supposed 
to have been imported on Sicily oranges, very destructive 
to apple trees and pear trees ; its habits ; means of destroy- 
ing it. Carpocapsa pomonella, recently imported, also 
destructive. B: P. M. (1476) 
Moffat, J. Alston. [Papiiio thoas.] (Can. en- 
tom., Dec. 1879, v. 11, p. 240.) 
P. thoas feeding on dictamnus fraxinella at Hamilton, 
Ont. B: P.M. (A477) 
Morris, Ernest. Insect pests of the Amazon. 
(Charlestown [Mass.] news, 17 May 1879, y. 1, 
no. 37,..., 42 cm.) 
Mention of the personal annoyances caused by insects 
in the valley of the Amazon. B: P.M. (1478) 
means of opposing the midge. 
PSYCHE. 
Niin insect of Yucatan (The). (Journ. applied 
sci., Feb. 1879, v. 10, p. 24-25, 89 cm.) 
Abstract. (Colonies and India, 26 Apr. 1879, 
p. 9, 15 em.) 
Notice. (Psyche advert., March 1879, p. 8.) 
Chemical nature, source, and uses as drying oil and as 
waterproof varnish, of niin, the secretion of an insect 
supposed to be allied to coccus cochinillifera. Facts on the 
authority of Dr. Arthur Schott, of the scientific commis- 
sion of Yucatan. G; D. (1479) 
Notes on commercial drugs and chemicals. 
(New remedies, June 1879, vy. 8, p. 164-165, 
55 cm.) 
Brief commercial notes on blatta orientalis as a remedy 
for dropsy (3 cm.), and on insect powder from chrysanthe- 
mum and pyrethrum (3 em.), with its great advance in 
price early in 1879. G: D. (1480) 
Oil-producing insect (A new). (Colonies 
and India, 26 April 1879, p. 9, 15 em.) 
Notes on niin, the fatty product of a species of coccus. 
See ‘‘ Niin insect of Yucatan.”’ G: D. (1481) 
Plague of locusts in Russia (A). (“London 
times.”) (Weekly bulletin, San Francisco, 
Cal., 14 Aug. 1879, v. 24, no. 29, ... 11 cm.) 
A little about the ravages of locusts, and more about 
other subjects. B: P. M. (1482) 
Plant-producing caterpillar of New Zea- 
land (The). (Colonies and India, 11 Jan. 1879, 
p- 9, 12 cm.) (Journ. applied sci., Feb. 1879, 
p. 23-24, 13 cm.) 
Notice. (Psyche advert., March 1879, p. 8.) 
Growth of sphaeria robertsii from larva of he vires- 
cens. :D. (1483) 
Reeling silk by electricity. 
India, 11 Jan. 1879, p. 72, 4 cm.) 
The breaking of a single filament of silk breaks a current 
of electricity, and, by suitable alarms, warns an attendant. 
From The electrician. G: D, (1484) 
(Colonies and 
“ROOT, L.C. Quinby’s new bee-keeping : mysteries of 
bee-keeping explained; combining results of fifty years’ 
experience, with latest discoveries and inventions, and 
presenting most approved methods; forming complete 
guide to successful bee-culture. N. Y., Orange Judd co., 
1879. 270 p., por., D. il. cl., $1.50. 
“Ist ed. of [M.] Quinby’s work appeared 1866; just be- 
fore his death he was contemplating a new edition present- 
ing new methods and processes tested and adopted by 
him. L.C. Root, his son-in-law, who was perfectly familiar 
with his later views, embodies them here, besides giving 
the results of his own experience.’’ —Title-slip registry, 
May [June] 1879, v. 1, p. 45. (1485) 
Rural (pseud.). The wheat midge. (Ells- 
worth [Me.] American, 4 Sept. 1879, no. 1281, 
y. 25, no. 36, p. [4], col. 1, 45 em.) 
Practical statement of the differences between the 
wheat midge (cecidomyia tritici) the Hessian fly (ec. de- 
structor) and the wheat weevil (sitophilus granarius) ; 
B: P. M. (1486) 
Saunders, W: Entomology for beginners. 
(Can. entom., Dec. 1879, y. 11, p. 221-228, fig. 
13-14.) 
Proposal to prepare a series of articles adapted especially 
to beginners; figures dytiscus harrisii and hydrophilus 
triangularis, describes the former; habits of the former 
and of h. piceus of Europe. B: P.M. 1(487) 
