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worm, Archives Italiennes de Biologie, xxix, 1. Turin, '98. — Davey, 

 F. H. Notes on the bulb-mite, figs. Journal, Royal Institution of Corn- 

 wall, xiii, 2. Truro, '97. —Deb ray. Destruction of injurious insects, 

 55, May 15, June 15.— Fernald, C H. Report of Entomologist; 

 Arsenate of lead as an insecticide, 77. — Forbush, E. H. Report of 

 the Field Director, 77.— G. A. Bulb mite, 78, June 25.— G i 1 1 e 1 1 e, 

 C. P. Colorado's worst insect pests and their remedies, figs., Bulletin 

 47, State Agricultural College Exper. Station, Fort Collins, Col., July, 

 '98. — Ken yon, F. C. Abstracts of recent articles, 7, Exper. Station 

 Record, ix, 10. — K h e i 1 , N. M. Fight between grasshoppers and a loco- 

 motive, 84, June 23. — K i r k a 1 d y , G. W. An economic use for water- 

 bugs, 8, Aug. — Kirkland, A. H. Experiments with insecticides; 

 Danger from the use of arsenate of lead, 77. — L e s n e , P. Description 

 of the larva and nymph of Balanogastris kolce in kola nuts, figs., 32, 

 No. 3. — Lounsbury, C. P. Report of the Government Entomologist 

 for the year 1897. Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town: 1898. — Lowe, 

 V. H. Cottonwood leaf beetle. Green arsenite, Bulletin No. 143. New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y., April, '98.— Mar- 

 latt, C. L. The periodical Cicada. An account of Cicada septendecim, 

 its natural enemies and the means of preventing its injury, together with 

 a summary of the distribution of the different broods. Bulletin No. 14 

 new series, 7, 148 pp. 57 text figs, (including maps) and 4 plates (one 

 colored). An extensive monograph whose contents are well summarized 

 in the title.— McLach Ian, R., R. M., Forbes, A. C. [Insect pests 

 on forest trees] 78, June 25. — R. M. The present plague of insects, 78, 

 June 18.— SI inge r Ian d, M. V. The quince curculio, figs., Bulletin 

 148, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 May, '98. — Smith, F. J. Arsenate of lead: its manufacture and chem- 

 ical composition, 77. — Webster, F. M. The importation of the San 

 Jose' scale, Aspidiotus perniciosus, from japan, 4, July. — W o o d , E. W. 

 and others. Report of Committee [on extermination of gypsy moth], 

 77. — X ambeu, Capt. Habits and metamorphoses of Lyctus canal- 

 iculatus Fab., 85. 



Arachnida. — B a n k s , N. Arachnida from Baja California and other 

 parts of Mexico,* 5 pis., Proceedings, California Academy of Sciences, 

 (3) Zoology, i, 7, San Francisco, May 28, '98 ; Some new spiders,* 4, 

 July. — Cambridge, O. P. Arachnida Araneidea,* pp. 241-248, 15. 

 — Carpenter, G. H. The smallest of stridulating spiders, figs., Ol, 

 — Carruccio, M. On some morphological characters of Sarcoptes 

 minor Fiirstenberg, and on some little-known cases of scabious trans- 

 mission, 1 pi. Bolletino, Societa Romana per gli studi zoologici, vi, 5-6, 

 '97. — Kennel, J. How do spiders draw their threads between distant 

 objects ? Sitzungsberichte d. Naturforscher Gesellschaft bei der Univer- 

 sitat Jurjew (Dorpat), xi, 3, '98. — Kraepelin, K. On the Linnean 

 species of the genus Scorpio, 22, July 18. — Neumann, G. Revision 

 of the Ixodidce, ii, Ixodinae, figs., 30, Mem., x.— Pier si g, R. Hy- 



