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the insects of the year in the State of New York, 7.— F e r n a I d , 

 C. H. The brown-tail moth {Euproctis chrysorrhcea, h),7. — 

 For bush, E. H. Recent work of the Gipsy-moth Commis- 

 sion, 7.— G r a s s i, B . Malaria propaj^ated by means of special 

 insects, Atti d. Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Nov. 6, '98 — 

 H o p k i n s , A . D. Some notes on observation? in "West Vir- 

 <^inia, 7.— H o w a r d , L . O. Two beneficial insects introduced 

 from Europe, figs . 7 ; Notes on house flies and mosquitoes, 7; Ptd- 

 vinaria acericolai W. & R ) and P. innumerdhilt'H, Rathv. , figs., 7. 

 — J ohnson, W. G. Hydrocyanic acid gas as a remedy for the 

 San Jose scale and otlier insects, 7; Notes from Maryland on the 

 principal injurious insects of the year, 7. — K a n t h a c k, A . A , 

 D u r h a m", H . E , and B 1 a n d f o r d, W . F . H . On na- 

 gana or tsetse fly disease. Report made to the Tsetse fly Com- 

 mittee of the Royal Society, of observations and experiments 

 carried out from November, 1896, to August, 1898. Proceedings, 

 RoN'^al Society. Ixiv, 404, London, Nov 19, '98. -K e n y o n, F . 

 C. Abstracts of recent publications. Experiment Station Rec- 

 ord, X, 3, '98, 7.— M a r 1 a t t , C. Proceedings of the tenth an- 

 nual meeting of the Association of Economic Entomologists. 

 Aug 19 and 20,1898,7; Notes on insecticides, 7.— Os b or u , FI. 

 The duty of Economic Entomology, 7. Q uain ta n c e , A. L. 

 A preliminary report upon the insect enemies of tobacco in 

 Florida, figs., Bulletin 48, Florida Agric. Experiment Station. 

 Deland, Fla., Oct., '98.— Sch, S. Thetsetse-fiy, Insekten Borse, 

 Leipsic, Nov. 24, '98: A new means against phylloxera, Natur- 

 wissenschaftliche Wocheuschrift, Berlin, Nov. 27, '98.— S m i th , J , 

 B. The distribution of the San Jose or pernicious scale in New 

 Jersey, 7.— W e b 8 t e r, F. M. The Chinch Bug: its probable 

 origin and dilfusion, its habits and development, natui*al checks and 

 remedial and preventive measures, with mention of the habits of an 

 allied European species, figs. Bulletin No. 15, new series, '98, 7 — 

 Webster, F . M ., and M a 1 1 y , C . W . Insects of the 

 year in Ohio, 7. — W e *> d , O. M. The feeding habits of the chip- 

 ping sparrow, tigs. Bulletin 55, New Hampshire College Agric. 

 Experiment Station, Durham, N. H, July, '98; Notes on tent cater- 

 pillars, 7.- W e e d , C M., and Fiske. W. F. Notes on 

 pruce bark- beetles, 7, 



Arachnida.— C a m brid g e, O. P. Arachuida Araneidea, pi. 

 XXX, 15. -Schimkewitsch. W. Note on the dorsal organ 

 of the Arancina, 98, '97, 8, Dec; On the origin of the alimentary 

 canal in some Arachnids, 98, '98, 1, Jan — S c h u 1 t z , E . On re- 

 generation of the feet of spiders, 98, '98, 2. Feb. 



Myriopoda. Cook, O . F. American oniscoid Diplopoda of 

 the order Merochaeta,* 50, no. 1154. 



Orthoptera. B u r r , M . Aquatic Orthoptera, Entomologists' 

 Record London, Nov. 15, 98.— H u n t e r . S . J . On the occur- 

 rence of Dissosteira longipennis, Thomas, [and] Dissosteira in 



