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C. H. Fernald : "The Brown-tail Moth'' (with A. H. Kikkland), 

 under direction of the State Board of Agriculture, Boston, March, 1903 ; 

 " Colour Blindness in Entomologists," Canadian Entomologist, July, 

 1903. 



H. T. Ferxald : " Orchard Treatment for the San Jos6 Scale," Bul- 

 letin No. 86, Hatch Experiment Station, February, 1903; " How shall 

 we arrange our Collections ? " Entomological News, April, 1903 ; 

 " First Annual Report of the State Nursery Inspector," Agriculture of 

 Massachusetts for 1902, June, 1903 ; " Plant Lice," Nature Leaflet No. 

 18, Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, July, 1903 ; " Some Important 

 Scale Insects," Massachusetts Crop Report for September, October, 

 1903; "Notes on the Species of Isodontia," Canadian Entomologist, 

 October, 1903; "The Plum Webbing Saw Fly" (with E. A. Back), 

 Entomological News, November, 1903 ; " Two New Si>ecies of Sphex," 

 Psyche, October-December, December, 1903. 



Mrs. M. E. Fernald : " Notes on the Coccidie," Canadian Entomolo- 

 gist, January, 1903; " Lepidosaphes versus Mytilaspis," Canadian 

 Entomologist, April, 1903 ; " Catalogue of the Coccidte of the World," 

 Bulletin No. 88, Hatch ExiJeriment Station, July, 1903. 



H. J. Franklin: "Notes on Acanthothrips," Psyche, October- 

 Decenaber, December, 1903. 



A. W. Morrill: "Life History and Description of the Strawberry 

 Aleyrodes," Canadian Entomologist, February, 1903; " Notes on some 

 Aleyrodes from Massachusetts, with Description of New Species," 

 Psyche, April, 1903; "Notes on the Early Stages of Corylophodes 

 marginicollis Lee," Entomological News, May, 1903; "New Apoidea 

 from Montana," Canadian Entomologist, August, 1903 ; " Notes on the 

 Immature Stages of Some Tingitids of the Genus Corythuca," Psyche, 

 August, 1903; " The Greenhouse Aleyrodes and the Strawberry Aley- 

 rodes," Technical Bulletin No. 1, Hatch Experiment Station, August, 

 1903. 



Besides these, several other papers are either in press or 

 well advanced in preparation, and Avill soon be published. 



Insects of the Year. 

 The present year has seen the great abundance of a few 

 kinds of insects, but taken as a whole the season has been 

 unfavorable for their rapid increase. The earl}^ spring was 

 apparently normal in its character, but about the first of 

 May a period of drought began, which continued well into 

 June. During this period the grass dried up and in many 

 places became brown and dead, and large numbers of insects 

 were found clinging to it, having seemingly died of starva- 



