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matter is arrauged according to the crops infested and is preceded by 

 a short account of remedies in general and an introduction on the 

 metamorphoses of insects. All of the principal crop pests are treated^ 

 each subject comprising the foiu- sub-heads of Diagnosis, Description 

 and Life-history, Eemedies, and Kansas Xotes. Under the latter head 

 are ^'iven the original observations of the pamphlet. The author seems 

 to have familiarized himself quite thoroughly with the literature and 

 his summaries are well condensed and useful. The sixty-one figures 

 are many of them borrowed, but about thirty are original. This is a 

 more useful pamphlet than a similar one issued some four years ago 

 by the ^"ebraska Experiment Station, largely on account of its conden- 

 sation and practical arrangement, to say nothing of the evidently 

 superior information of the author. 



A New Wheat Insect in Minnesota — In a recent bulletin of the Min- 

 nesota Agricultural Experiment Station* Mr. Otto Lugger presents a 

 preliminary report upon a new insect injurious to Wheat, which will 

 prove to be one of the frit flies, although the adult has not yet been 

 reared. The insect is present in great numbers and promises great 

 loss in 1893 unless remedial measures are undertaken. The insect hi- 

 bernates in the culms in stubble fields, and Mr. Lugger advises the 

 plowing up of all such fields. In some places during 1892 one-fourth 

 of the entire crop was destroyed. The species may prove to be iden- 

 tical with that found in Canada and Kentucky, and which has been 

 tentatively determined by Mr. Garman as Oscinis variabilis Loew. 



A Tasmanian Handbook of Insect Pests.— The Department of Agricul- 

 ture of Tasmania has issued as its first bulletin a little work entitled 

 "A Handbook to the Insect Pests of Farm and Orchard: Their Life 

 History and Methods of Prevention.'' Part I. By Edward H. Thomp- 

 son. Launceston: 1892. 



The author treats especially of the desirability of a quarantine against 

 introduced pests, gives a section upon the life history of insects, some 

 little account of injurious fungi, and dwells at length upon the Codling 

 Moth. The other insects treated are the Oyster-shell Bark-louse of 

 the Apple; the Woolly Root-louse; the common Pear Slug; the Cherry 

 Borer Moth, as Henry Edwards's Crypiopliasa nnijyunctata is called; the 

 Bud Curculio (a species of Perperus); two apple-root borers [Leptops 

 hopei and Leptops rohustuH) ; the Pear-blight Beetle, and a few other 

 species of less importance. A list of twenty-one remedies is given, and 

 five appendices follow, o, giving a list of insect-eating birds; h, a sum- 



* University of Minnesota. Agricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 2.3, 

 St. Anthony's Park, Minn., September, 1892. 



