437 



the lower orders of insects, if we exclude the amber fauna of the Baltic. 

 The localities from which the material has been derived are, in the 

 main, Florissant, Colorado ; the White River, in western Colorado and 

 eastern Utah ; Green Eiver, Wyoming ; near the town of Fossil, 

 Wyoming; at Horse Creek, in the same State; at Quesnel, British 

 Columbia; Nicola, !North Similkameen, and Nine Mile Creek, British 

 Columbia; Scarborough, Ontario ; and Port Kennedy Pennsylvania. 



An Economic Bulletin from Canada.*— Mr. Fletcher has published in 

 a little 30-page bulletin a condensed account of some of the more 

 important of the insects inquired about by his correspondents during 

 the past two seasons, together with remedies and the most convenient 

 methods for applying them. His preliminary account of remedies, puts 

 the matter in a very sensible, straightforward manner, while the remain- 

 der of the bulletin is occupied by the treatment of a few insects in- 

 jurious to grain and forage crops, fruits, and vegetables, most of which 

 have already received consideration in his last two annual reports, full 

 notices of which will be found in Insect Life, vol. ii, page 336, and vol. 

 Ill, pp. 359, 860. 



Insect Enemies of the Sugar Beet.t— Mr. Bruner has in this publication 

 summarized the particular enemies of the sugar beet in Nebraska dur- 

 ing the season of 1890. As he has reported wpon this same subject in 

 Bulletin No. 23 of this Division, a summary will be unnecessary' here, 

 except to state that the article in the Bulletin of the Nebraska Station 

 is illustrated fully and gives original figures of Systena hlanda^ Bis- 

 onycha triangularis, Macrobasis unicolor, Epicauta vittata, E. maculata, 

 E. pennsylvanica, Geocoris bullata, Agallia siccifoUa, and AlelanoUis com- 

 munis. 



Nebraska Entomology.— We have received from Mr, Lawrence Bruner 

 a copy of his report as Entomologist of the Nebraska Horticultural 

 Society, extracted from the annual report of the society for 1890, pages 

 183 to 217. He gives a general essay on the subject of the damage 

 done by insects and the necessity for a knowledge of insect habits, and 

 follows with accounts of the Apple Eoot-louse, the Apple Aphis, notes 

 on the Codling Moth, the Strawberry Monostegia, the Fiery Flea-beetle 



* Central Experiment Farm. Department of Agriculture. Bulletin No. 11. Rec- 

 ommendations for the prevention of damage by some common insects of the farm, 

 the orchard, and the garden. By James Fletcher, Ottawa, Canada. May, 1801. 



t University of Nebraska. Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, vol. 

 IV, No. 16. Sugar Beet Series No. '2. Lincoln, Nebraska, April 15, 1891. Insect 

 Enemies, pp. 55-72. 



