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trict, Cumberland County ; Windsor, Hants County; Cornwallis, Kings 
County, and South. Queens, Brookfield, Pleasant River, Kempt, and 
Liverpool, Queens County. The history of this insect in Nova Scotia 
possesses considerable interest for the economic entomologist, since this 
is probably its northernmost limit as a crop pest. 
ITALIAN WORK ON THE COCCID^E. 
We have elsewhere referred to the admirable work which has been 
done in Italy during the last few years in regard to the life history of 
certain species of Coccida?, and our attention has recently been called 
again to this matter by the current number of the Bivista di Patologia 
Vegetale, vol. n, March-June, 1893. This number contains three 
important articles upon bark lice. The first, which is by A. Banti, 
carefully figures and describes all the stages of Aspidiotus ceratoriw 
Colv., and the second is by A. Berlese, uipoiiAlytilasjrisfnlva, a species 
which has been doing much damage of late years in the mulberry 
groves of certain portions of Italy. The author summarizes the life 
history of the insect, giving excellent anatomical figures and a table 
of the means which have been used against it. The third article, which 
is even more pretentious, is also by Signor Berlese. It is the begin- 
ning of an extensive and careful monograph of the Italian Coccidrc 
which live upon citrus trees. The present number contains a detailed 
consideration of two species only, viz, Dactylopius citri Risso and J). 
longispinus Targioni-Tozzetti, these names taking precedence of those 
given by Comstock in 1880 to the same species — namely, I). destructor 
and D. longifilis. The thoroughness of the treatment may be judged 
from the fact that the consideration of these two species occupies 44 
large quarto pages with 35 text illustrations. 
THE PENNSYLVANIA LOUSE STORY ABROAD. 
We have elsewhere referred to the exaggerated reports of the plague 
of lice in Lancaster County, Pa., which appeared in press dispatches 
during July. The stories had but the slightest basis in fact, as we 
have shown. It only requires distance, however, to enlarge a news- 
paper story to gigantic proportions, and an editorial writer on the 
London Evening Standard has succeeded in producing a paragraph 
based upon New York dispatches which is calculated to produce a 
veritable panic. Prom the single occurrence of a few specimens of the 
harmless Atropos pulsatoria in an old hat, the ingenious writer evolves 
a plague which is comparable only to the Biblical Egyptian occurrences 
in the times of the Pharaohs. In three days four townships were 
overrun, a panic arose, the people fled to a distance, and the infested 
localities were quarantined. At the date of writing it was stated that 
further particulars were awaited with intense anxiety in England, on 
account of the probability that the insect would overrun the States and 
make its appearance abroad ! 
