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Notes and News. 



■NTOMOLOOIOAL OLBAMDIOS PBOM ALL QUABTBBS 

 OP THB OLOBB. 



Photograph* received for the Album of the AnMrkan Batomo- 

 lofical 8od«ij. 

 Daring the year 1914 pbotogra^u for the albam were r ec d Ted 

 from the following pertoos, and the member* of the Society with 

 mgmin to thank the donor* for their modi appreciated gift*: E. D. 

 Ball E. W. Beyer. J. C Crawford. S. Criddk. L. G. Esson, C T. 

 Greene. W. D. Kearfott. W. W. NewcomK A. F. Porter. S. A. Roh- 

 wer. Mrs. P. R. Uhler. A. C Watson. J. B. Wat^m. T. N. Willinf. 



The Occurrence of Pedtcolopaia grarainom Rcuter and the Car- 

 aMkm Bod-Rot in New J«r««y (Acar.) 

 Daring the fall of 1914 carnation bod* in several grcodMNnc* fai 

 northern New Jersey were observed to be de fo ruwd and somewhat 

 lop-sided. Upon cutting them open the interior wa* fooad to be de- 

 cayed and contained a* a rule one or more female mite* with greatly 

 distended bodte*. White varieties of camitiom *ccmcd to *affer the 

 motL According to Stewart and HodgMn. tiM rot is caoscd by a 

 spedcs of foagns (S^orolriekmm pot) wUcli also cmmcs the stiver 

 top of Jane grass and the mite has been foood accompaajring the dis- 

 ease in buth cases. It appears that the mites bearing the disease spore* 

 are carried into the boose in summer ia the soil and eater the ian 

 mature flower bod* a* soon as they appear. The spores tlMrefore fbd 

 a favorable place ia which to develop aad decajr fiaally set* in. Treat- 

 ment consi*t* in promptly piddaf aad b ar a ia g all iafested bod*. Ac- 

 coont* of this trouble can be fooad ia Tech. Boll. No. 7. N. Y. Agric 

 Exp. Sta.. Bull No. 103. Neb. Agric Exp. Sta.. and the ayth Report 

 of State EatooK>logi*t of Iliiaoi*.— Haaav B. Wns*. New Brunswick. 

 N.J. 



An laaecfa Penar aa a Piah Hook (Orth.). 



A cttfioos me is made of the spine on the hind feauir of the 

 Phasmid. Bmrfcomka latro. by the natives in the hill-villagcs of north- 

 em Goodenough Islands, near New Goiaea. The femur is strung on 

 the end of a fishing Hne. *o that the recurved spine will act a* a fi*h 

 hook barb. (See H. Balfour** article and illustratioa ia Mom, Feb.. 



1915.I 



Proposed Entomological Work in Porto Rico. 



Professor John H. Gerould, of Dartmouth College. lianover. New 

 Hampshire, expects to go to Porto Rico with Dr. A. G. Mayer's party 

 on May 15. returning to New York. June at. to study the Lepidoptera 

 and other ia*ect* of the island with a view to undertaking breeding 

 experiment* tipoo *tock from the tropic*. 



