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numerous figures are borrowed without acknowledgment to original 

 sources. The most original article is that upon the Bud Moth, which, 

 it is stated, has done a vast amount of damage to fruit trees in Mas- 

 sachusetts by eating out the inside of both leaf and flower buds. It is 

 a frequent cause of the failure of grafted scions. The remedy sug- 

 gested is to gather all the leaves in the fall, burn them, and to spray 

 with Paris green and water in the spring when the buds begin to swell. 

 A full technical account is given, including the history of the literature, 

 descriptions of the different stages, and an account of the life history. 

 He reared the Ichneumonid Phytodietus vulgaris from the larva of this 

 insect, and has proved it to be an external parasite. Under the head 

 of Spittle Insects he gives some account of the species common upon 

 grass in Massachusetts. The other articles are, in the main, compiled, 

 with no reference to authorities, and need no further mention. 



Miss Ormerod's Fourteenth Report.*— Miss Ormerod continues her ad- 

 mirable work with the publication of her fourteenth report which sus- 

 tains the reputation which these reports have already gained for care, 

 accuracy, and practicalness, combined with a most agreeable and lucid 

 style of presentation. The principal subjects treated this year are the 

 so-called American Blight, the Apple Ohermes, the Stem Eel worm and 

 its damage to beans and clover, the American Glover-seed Midge, which, 

 as we have already stated in Insect Life, has made its appearance in 

 England, the Hessian Fly damage during 1890, the Mediterranean Flour 

 Moth and its recent work in England, the Orchard Moth Caterpillars, 

 including an extended consideration of Paris green and London purple 

 as remedies, and the Horse Bot Fly. Several other subjects are treated 

 in more or less detail. The report contains nearly 150 pages and is, 

 as usual, fully illustrated. 



Economic Entomology in Indiana.!— Under the caption '^Entomological 

 Kotes," Mr. F. M. Webster publishes a number of articles in a late 

 bulletin of the Indiana Experiment Station, some of which are reprints 

 of articles previously published in Insect Life. The latter are *' Ex- 

 periments with the Plum Curculio" (Insect Life, ii, pp. 305-310), and 

 "Some hitherto unrecorded Enemies of Easpberries and Blackberries'^ 

 (Insect Life, ii, p. 257). In addition to these are short articles on 

 the Strawberry Crown-borer [Tyloderma fragarice, Riley), the common 

 Field Cricket as an enemy of the fruit of the Strawberry, and Haltica 

 ignita, Illig, which has recently become known as a strawberry pest. 

 (See Insect Life, ii, p. 369.) 



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

 year 1890, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy, by Eleanor A. Ormerod. London. 

 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., limited. 1891. 



t Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, Bull. 33, vol. ii, October, 1890. 



