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Ent. ) a correspondents statement that the disease seemed to be 
confined to imperfect males and due to decomposition, since in 
his own investigations he has found it otherwise. Spherical or¬ 
ganized bodies present which he describes, regarding them as 
sporangia filled with spores and multiplying by fission. Mr. But¬ 
ler says: “I am satisfied that the greater number of cicadas which 
escape a forcible death die from the effects of the fungus previ¬ 
ously mentioned.” \Mussoj)oru cicadina .] 
Forbes, S. A.—A Contagious Disease of the European Cabbage 
Worm, Pieris rupee, and its Economic Application. (Proc. 
Seventh Ann. Meeting Soc. Promotion Agr. Sci., 1886, p. 
26; Thirteenth Pep. Bd. Trustees Univ. Ill., p. 294.) 
General argument favorable to economic use of contagious in¬ 
sect diseases. Classifies them as hyphomycosis, schizomycosis, 
and sporozosis. Elaborate description of jiucherie of European 
cabbage worm, and history of its appearance and spread in the 
Enited States. Gives accounts of two attempts to convey it by 
tiansfer of diseased larvae to new localities. Describes successful 
cultures and infection experiments with Pyrameis carditi. 
Forbes, S. A .—[Flucherie in Pieris rapee.] (Miscellaneous Es¬ 
says on Economic Entomology by the State Entomologist 
[Illinois] and his Assistants, p. 5 ) 
Elaborate description of the symptoms and the anatomical and 
histological character of the disease. 
Forbes, S. A.—Studies on the Contagious Diseases of Insects. 
(Bull. Ill. State Lab. Nat. Hist., v. 2, p. 257.) 
An elaborate article giving results of observations and author’s 
experimental studies on bacterial disease of Pieris rupee , Datana 
larvae, Mamesira pictu, and silkworm, with brief account of epi¬ 
demic of muscardine in Clisiocumpu sylvatica. Illustrated by 
photographs of Micrococcus of cabbage worm. 
Biley, C. V.—Silk Culture. (Hep. [U. S.] Commiss. Agr., 1885, 
p. 221.) 
A discussion of Jicicherie and p&brine of the silkworm, giving a 
description of the symptoms, consequences, nature, and treatment 
of jiucherie , and a translation of Pasteur’s instructions for detect¬ 
ing flaccidity in the chrysalis; and describing the symptoms of 
p&brine and the tests for its determination, giving Maillot’s method 
of isolating and examining the moths, further details of procedure 
necessary to securing purity of stock, and a brief characterization 
of the corpuscles of pibrine. 
Biley, C. V. The Mulberry Silkworm: A Manual of Instructions 
in Silk-culture. (U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bull. 9.) 
In Chapter V. of this Bulletin (see p. 33) the four principal 
diseases of the silkworm ( muscardine , p6brine , flacherie, and 
grasserie) are considered, gaitine being mentioned as a variety of 
p&brine (Pasteur’s view) or Jiucherie (Maillot). Short account of 
the prevalence of these diseases in France and of investigation 
