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paradoxus Beauv. Texebrionidae: Scolobates calcaratus Fab.,* Xylo- 

 piniis saperdioides Oliv.,* Diaperis maculata Oliv.,* Platydema sub:osta- 

 tum Lap.* Boletotherus hifurcus Fab.* Helops micans Fab.* MoR- 

 dellid.'^e: Tomoxia bidentata Say.* 



Harry B. Weiss, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 



The Crop Protection Institute. 



An organization has been effected under the auspices of the National 

 Research Council, by which it is proposed to bring together manu- 

 facturers of insecticides, fungicides and allied commodities with the sci- 

 entific men in entomology, plant pathology and agricultural chemistry. 

 The title of the organization is The Crop Protection Institute. 



The question of bringing about such an organization has been under 

 advisement by a number of entomologists and has been studied at some 

 length by the Committee on Policy of the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists. It is explicitly not the intent to duplicate existing organi- 

 zations or agencies. Rather, it is the thought that this Institute can 

 serve as the vehicle for accomplishing some things for which there is not 

 at present any machinery', and may supplement on occasion the work 

 of existing departments or agencies. 



The greatest care has been taken to safeguard the activities of the 

 Institute from suspicion of commercial influence. All of its affairs are 

 entirely in the hands of the Board of Trustees of thirteen members, nine 

 of whom must be scientific men without commercial afifiliations. Definite 

 provision is made for general publication of the results of research. Sci- 

 entific members of the Association will receive publications of the In- 

 stitute from time to time, in addition to sharing in other activities and 

 helping to guide the Institute into useful endeavors. — W. C. O'Kane, 

 Durham, New Hampshire, Chairman Board of Trustees of The Crop 

 Protection Institute. 



Kntomological 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 Entomology of the Americas (North and 

 South'), including Arachnida and Myriopoda. Articles irrelevant to American ento- 

 mology will not be noted; but contributions to anatomy, physiology and embryology of 

 insects, however, 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. 



All continued papers, with few exceptions, are recorded only at their first installments. 



The records of papers containing new genera or species occurring north of Mexico are 

 all grouped at the end of each Order of which they treat. 



For records of Economic Literature, see the Experiment Station Record, Office of Ex- 

 periment Stations, Washington. Also Review of Applied Entomology, Series A, London. 

 For records of papers on Medical Entomology, see Review of Applied Entomology, Series B. 



7 — Annals of The Entomological Society of America, Columbus, Ohio. 

 8 — The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, London. 9 — The Entomolo- 

 gist, London. 10 — Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Wash- 



