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into Asia Minor appears to liave been the result of a deliberate importa- 

 tion of the vines from a country- where the disease was known to exist. 



BAEK LICE ON THE COCOA-NUT. 



At the meetino- of the Royal Horticultural Society, March 26, Mr. 

 McLachlan exhibitedleavesof the Cocoa-nut Palm from Jamaica infested 

 by Fiorinia pellucida Sign, and Mytilaspis huxi Sign. (.1/. ]}andani Corn- 

 stock), the former being the more abundant. Mr. Morris stated th'it he 

 had seen a plantation of 25,000 trees badly infested and that the first 

 attack was noticed in 1881 after the c^xlone of 1880, the planters at- 

 tributing the unhealthy condition of the trees to breaking of the roots 

 during the cyclone. 



I3IP0RTANT PUBLICATIONS ON EC0N03IIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



Relazioue iutoruo ai lavori della R. Stazione di Entomologia Agraria di Firenze, per 



gli auui lr583-'84-'85. Per Ad. Targioiii Tozzetti. Annali di Agricoitara, 1838. 



Fireuze, 1888. 

 Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests during the year 



1888, with methods of prevention and remedy (12th Report), by Eleanor A. Orme- 



rod. London, 1889. 

 Re]3ort of Entomologist and Botanist, James Fletcher. Reports of th^ Officers of 



Experimental Farms for 1888. Ottawa, 1889. 



We have received during the last month three of the most important 

 works upon economic entomology which have been published by foreign 

 Governments during the year. Professor Targioni Tozzetti has brought 

 out the second of his extensive reports on the experiments conducted 

 at the laboratory of the station for agricultural entomology at Florence. 

 The first of these reports was i^ublished in 1881. The present volume 

 is a large octavo of over 500 pages, illustrated by about 70 text figures, 

 and is devoted mainly to the consideration of the injurious insects of 

 Italy. Some attention is also paid to fungi. The greatest space given 

 to any one insect is devoted to the Grape- vine Phylloxera, although 

 many species of all orders receive treatment. 



Miss Ormerod's report for 1888 covers 130 pages and is written with 

 her usual great care and attention to the practical side of her work. 

 The report this year covers a large number of species, and the longest 

 individual article is that upon the new Corn Moth [Ephestia kuhniella)^ 

 concerning which we have i3ublished a letter from Miss Ormerod in Xo 

 10 of Insect Life. Attention is called tocertain injuries by Anguilhilidcie 

 and a well-executed full-page plate is given to an Eel-worm attacking 

 oat plants. She publishes another instructive table giving prices of the 

 sales of sound and warbled hides in c )nnection with a supplementary 

 article on the Warble-fly {Hi/podernia bovis). 



Mr. Fletcher's report as entomologist and botanist to the Dominion 

 of Canada possesses more interest to the American reader through the 

 identity of the insects treated with those occurring in the United States. 



