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into Asia Miuor appears to have been the result of a deliberate importa- 

 tion of the vines from a country where the disease was known to exist. 



BARK LICE ON THE COCOA-NUT. 



At the meeting- of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, March 26, Mr. 

 McLachlan exhibited leaves of the Cocoa-nut Palm from Jamaica infested 

 by Fior'uiia peUtickla Si<^n. and Mytllaspls huxi Sign. {M. pamlani Com- 

 stock), the former being the more abundant. Mr. Morris stated thit he 

 had seen a plantation of 25,000 trees badly infested and that the first 

 attack was noticed in 18SL after the cyclone of 1880, the planters at- 

 tributing the unhealthy condition of the trees to breaking of the roots 

 during the cyclone. 



IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS ON ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



Kelazioue iutoruo ai lavori della R. Stazione di Eatomologia Agraria di Firenze, per 



gli anni lH83-'d4-'85. Per Ad. Targioiii Tozzetti. Anuali di Agricoltara, 1888. 



Firenze, 1888. 

 Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests during the year 



1888, with methods of prevention and remedy (12th Report), by Eleanor A. Orme- 



rod. Loudon, 1889. 

 Report of Entomologist and Botanist, James Fletcher. Reports of th^ Officers of 



Experimental Farms for 1888. Ottawa, 1889. 



We have received during the last month three of the most important 

 works upon economic entomology which have been published by foreigu 

 Governments during the year. Professor Targioni Tozzetti has brought 

 out the second of his extensive reports on the experiments conducted 

 at the laboratory of the station for agricultural entomology at Floreuce. 

 The first of these reports was published in 1884. The present volume 

 is a large octavo of over 500 pages, illustrated by about 70 text figures, 

 and is devoted mainly to the consideration of the injurious insects of 

 Italy. Some attention is also paid to fungi. The greatest space given 

 to any one insect is devoted to the Grape-vine Phylloxera, although 

 many species of all orders receive treatment. 



Miss Ormerod's report for 1888 covers 130 pages and is written with 

 her usual great care and attention to the practical side of her work. 

 The report this year covers a large number of species, and the longest 

 individual article is that upon the new Corn Moth {Ephestia kuhniella), 

 concerning which we have published a letter from Miss Ormerodin Xu 

 10 o( [usect Life. Attention is called tocertain injuries by Anguillulidte* 

 ani ;i well-executed full-page plate is given to an Eel-worm attacking 

 oar i>hiuts. She publishes another instructive table giving prices of the 

 sah^s of sound and warbled hides in connection with a supplementary 

 article on the Warble-fly {Rypoderma bovis). 



Mr. Fletcher's report as entomologist and botanist to the Dominion 

 of Canada possesses more interest to the American reader through the 

 identity of the insects treated with those occurring in the United States. 



