2393 
ceptible glaze which had a distinctly salty taste. We do not dispute 
the fact, but the inference is startling and we leave it to the plant physi- 
ologists to deal with. 
Dr. Cooper Curtice on the Cattle Tick.—We have just received from the 
author reprints of two papers entitled, respectively, ‘‘The Biology of 
the Cattle Tick ” and “ About Cattle Ticks,” from the Journal of Com- 
parative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, July, 1891, and January, 
1892. In the first of these papers, which was originally read before the 
Biological Society of Washington February 3, 1890, Dr. Curtice gives 
a fall account of certain careful observations which he made while con- 
nected with the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department on the 
life-history of the common Cattle Tick (Ixodes bovis Riley) for which he 
has erected the new genus Bodphilus. Dates of egg-laying, hatching, 
molting, and coupling are given, with careful descriptions of the differ- 
ent stages. In thesecond paper the life-history of the insect is completed 
and a careful account of its habits is given. The author shows that 
cattle should be kept in good condition in order to resist the pest, 
and as an actual application he recommends the kerosene emulsion, 
which is reported by Dr. Francis, of Texas, as ‘“ working to a charm.” 
The author touches briefly upon the supposed connection between the 
Cattle Tick andthe Texas fever, and states that it has been thoroughly 
demonstrated that the fever may be spread by these creatures. 
Dr. Curtice on the Ox Warble.*—We have alsoreceived from Dr. Curtice 
an author’s extra of his valuable paper upon the Ox Warble of the 
United States, an advance item from which we published in INSECT 
LIFE, Vol. U1, pp. 207-8. In this paper Dr. Curtice announces his «on- 
clusion, that the Ox Warble Fly of the United States is Hypoderma 
lineata Villers and not Hypoderma bovis Linn., as was formerly sup- 
posed. In support of the conclusion he adduces the results of his ex- 
amination of the material in adults from the United States National 
Museum collection and of a very large series of larvee in the collection 
of the Bureau of Animal Industry of this Department. He has adopted 
the diagrammatic method of representation of the armature of Hypo- 
derma larvee, invented by Brauer, and shows by an original diagram 
the correspondence of the armature of American larve with H. lineata 
and not with H. bovis. We have already (Vol. 111, p. 432,) indicated 
and confirmed these conclusions in a paper before the Entomological 
Society of Washington last May, and later before the Society for the 
Promotion of Agricultural Science. He reiterates his revolutionary 
“The Oxwarble of the United States, by Cooper Curtice, Veterinarian. Journal 
of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Archives, Vol. x11, No.6, p. 265, June, 1891. 
