WINTER NUMBER 43 
is certain that large numbers of the bugs were present in the 
seed beds and in some fields, but the writer is inclined to doubt 
that they did much damage. Prof. Watson recommended crude 
carbolic acid used at the rate of a tablespoonful to two gallons of 
water or a dust made by adding a half pint of the acid to a bushel 
of lime or plaster, but I do not know what results were obtained. 
Tabanids. Among our very worst pests of livestock are the 
large Tabanids which appear in great numbers for from four to 
eight weeks in the spring. I have seen even mules covered with 
bloody splotches caused by the bites of these insects in one day. 
Work animals are usually protected by repellant mixtures, me- 
chanical means or by screening their quarters, but the unfortun- 
ate range animals suffer severely and lose weight considerably 
during this period. This is a problem to which little attention 
has been given, and which, in justice to our growing livestock in- 
dustry, deserves to be attacked with vigor. 
BOOK AND BULLETIN NOTICES 
The October number of the Quarterly Bulletin of the State 
Plant Board contains two valuable articles on scale insects. The 
first on ‘Some Florida Scale Insects,” by C. E. Wilson, lists 83 
species, most of which are illustrated by original photographs. 
This is a very credible list and should be a great help to those 
working with these insects. 
We note under Cottony Cushion Scale, p. 18, many plants list- 
ed as not having been found infested in Florida that should have 
been recorded among the Florida hosts, as they were found in- 
fested at Key West (See An. Rep. Fla. Ag. Exp. Sta. 1915 p. 
exabye) < 
The second article by Dr. E. W. Berger on the control of scale 
insects is the latest word on the subject. 
Press Bul. 285, Fla. Ag. Exp. Sta., is on the San Jose Scale and 
No. 286 treats of the Boll Weevil in Sea Island cotton. 
Farmers’ Bul. 875, U. S. D. A., treats of (Ligyrus) Huetheola 
rugiceps which the authors, Philip and Fox, call the rough-head- 
ed corn stalk-beetle. This beetle is common in Florida but no 
serious injury to corn seems to have been noted. 
Farmers’ Bul. 843 on pecan insects is of peculiar interest to 
us, as it is the result of work done mostly in Florida by J. B. 
Gill, who is stationed at Monticello. 
Bul. 609, U. S. D. A. (Professional Paper), is on Pilocrocis 
