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early generations of this insect upon mustard or radish x)lants by the 

 application of i)ure kerosene or a very strong kerosene emulsion, and 

 now advocates the i)lanting of a strip of mustard through the field 

 which is to be devoted to cabbages. The insects will congregate ui^on 

 the mustard and may easily be destroyed in the way mentioned. Mr. 

 Weed elaborated this idea still ftirther and summarized the life history 

 and literature of this insect in a fjaper read before the Society for the 

 Promotion of Agricultural Science at its Rochester meeting, August 16. 



Entomology in Trinidad.— We have received two numbers of a publica- 

 tion entitled ''Journal of the Trinidad Field ^Naturalists' Olub," which 

 has been sent to us by our correspondent, Mr. H. Caracciolo, of Port of 

 Spain, the president of the club. No. 3, vol. i, August 1892, contains a 

 number of notes of entomological interest, the most imi)ortant one being 

 a case of the larvae of Lucilia hominivorax in the nostrils of a woman, 

 reported by a resident physician of Port of Spain who signs only his 

 initials. Mr. Caracciolo brings together a long series of notes on dif- 

 ferent insects, mainly compiled from American sources; Mr. J. Edward 

 Tanner contributes a note on the Leaf-cutting Ant, (Ecodoma cepha- 

 otes, and Mr. W. F. Kirby, of the British Museum, describes a new 

 butterfly from Trinidad, Tithorea flavescens. The number immediately 

 preceding contained several entomological notes, the principal article 

 being a draft of a report by the committee of the club upon the small 

 sugar-cane borer, which we hope to refer to at length in a summary of 

 the habits of and literature concerning this important Scolytid. We 

 are much pleased to see this evidence of activity among the residents 

 of the British West Indies in the direction of entomology. The field 

 is a most interesting one and almost unexi^lored. 



Scale-insects in New Mexico.— As Bulletin 7 of the New Mexico Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend publishes an 

 account of the scale-insects which he has studied in that State. The 

 pai^er includes a section on the classification of scale insects, another 

 upon their general habits, one on parasites and other enemies, and a 

 long account of remedies. Ten species receive detailed consideration, 

 the new ones being a new species of Aspidiotus on Chilopsis saligna^ a 

 new species of Lecanium upon Robinia to which we have given the manu- 

 script name of Leccmium rohinlce; a new species of the same genus upon 

 Peach, which Prof. Townsend has i)opularly designated as the Soft Peach 

 Scale, a new Lecanodiasi^is on Yucca, which we have called in manuscript 

 Lecanodiaspis yuccce^ and a new genus and species upon Mesquite. The 

 three plates are reprinted, from electrotypes derived from this Division. 



