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Miss Ormerod attributes the extraordinary abundance of the wasps to 
the early and long continued drouth which enabled the insects to get 
an unusual start. 
New York Reports.—The Eighth and Ninth Reports of Dr. J. 
A. Lintner, State Entomologist of New York, have recently been pub- 
lished. They are good sized volumes giving abundant evidence of the 
pains-taking preparation so characteristic of their predecessors in the 
same series. The contents of the eighth report include an introductory 
summary of the important entomological events of 1891; a discussion 
of a number of injurious insects; notes on various insects and remedies 
for them; two entomological addresses, and a bibliography of the pub- 
lications of the entomologist for 1891, 1875 and 1876. The ninth report 
is equally full of varied and valuable information, and contains besides 
a reprint of Dr. Asa Fitch’s Catalogue of Homoptera which will be ap- 
appreciated by many students. 
Notes.—Mr. Alex. A. MacGillivray of Ithaca, New York, continues 
his papers on North American Thysanura in The Canadian Entomol- 
ogist. He advises the restriction of the name Poduride to genera hav- 
ing the saltatory organ, and includes the genera in which it is absent 
under the Aphoruridæ. A number of new genera and species are de- 
scribed. 
= An interesting colored plate showing the variations of the larve of 
Arctia caia appears in The Entomologists’ Record, Feb. 15, 1894. 
Prof. T. D. A Cockerell publishes in Bulletin 10 of the New Mexico 
Experiment Station a List of Insects found on Cultivated plants in the 
Mesilla Valley. 
Two new Deltoid moths—Pseudaglossa forbesii and Pallachira har- 
tii—are described by Prof. G. H. French in a recent Bulletin of the 
Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. 
In a circular recently issued from the Department of Agriculture 
Mr. L. O. Howard announces the spread of Aspidiotus perniciosus 
through many eastern states, and gives directions for its destruction. 
In Bulletins 35 and 36 of the West Virginia, Experiment Station 
- Mr. A. D. Hopkins continues the publication of his studies of wood 
boring insects. A large number of fairly good original figures are 
ublished. 
In Bulletin 51 of the Ohio Experiment Station, Mr. F. M. daca 
publishes a number of miscellaneous articles. The one of most gene 
interest is on “ Some Insect Immigrants of Ohio. 
