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bee-keeper made before a notary public or other officer having a seal 
that the honey used in making the candy used in the queen mailing cage 
has been diluted and boiled in a closed vessel; beneficial insects, when 
shipped by departments of entomology in agricultural colleges and 
persons holding official entomological positions; other live insects, when 
addressed to the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, to departments of entomology in State agricul- 
tural colleges, and to persons holding official entomological positions, 
and dried insects and dried reptiles may be sent in the mails when 
so put up as to render it practically impossible that the package shall 
be broken in transit, or the persons handling the same be injured, or 
the mail bags or their contents soiled. 
8. Nursery stock, including field-grown florists’ stock, trees, shrubs, 
plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions and buds (which may carry in- 
jurious insects) may be admitted to the mails only when accompanied 
by a certificate from a State or Government inspector to the effect 
that said nursery stock has been inspected and found free from in- 
jurious insects. 
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Frank H. Hitcucock, Postmaster General. 
Bntomological Literature. 
COMPILED BY E. T. CRESSON, JR., AND J. A. G. REHN. 
Under the above head it is intended to note papers received at the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, pertaining to the En- 
tomology of the Americas (North and South), excluding Arachnida and 
Myriapoda. Articles irrelevant to American entomology will not be noted; 
but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of insects, how- 
ever, whether relating to American or exotic species, will be recorded. 
The numbers in Heavy-Faced Type refer to the journals, as numbered 
in the following list, in which the papers are published, and are all 
dated the current year unless otherwise noted. This (*) following a 
record, denotes that the paper in question contains description of a new 
North American form. 
For record of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, 
Office of Experiment Stations, Washington. 
4—The Canadian Entomologist. 7—U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture, Bureau of Entomology. 8—The Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine, London. 9—The Entomologist, London. 14—Proceed- 
ings, Zoological Society of London. 88—Wiener Entomologische 
Zeitung. 44—Verhandlung, K. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesell- 
schaft in Wien. 50—Proceedings, U. S. National Museum. 68— 
Science, New York. 86—Annales, Societe Entomologique de 
France, Paris. 89—Zoologische Jahrbucher, Jena. 97—Zeit- 
schrift fur wissenschaftliche Zoologie, Leipzig. 119—Archiv fur 
Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 153—Bulletin, American Musuem of Nat- 
ural History, New York. 161—Proceedings, Biological Society of 
