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U. 9, Department of Agriculture 
NEWS LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Number 10. January-February, 1915. 

NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY. 
Brun, Rudolf. Die Raumorientierung der Ameisen und das Orientierungsproblem im allgemeinen. Jena, Fischer, 
1914. 234 p. 
Das Tierreich. Ifg. 41. Kieffer, J. J. Bethylidae, July, 1914. 
lfg. 42. Kieffer, J. J. Serphidae. Calliceratidae. October, 1914. 
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. Jahrgang 1911-1914, completing this set to date. 
Froggatt, W. W. Pests and diseases of the coconut palm. (N. S. Wales Dept. Agr. Science Bulletin No. 2, ed. 3 
rev. and enl., July, 1914.) 
Hewitt, C. Gordon. The house-fly. Cambridge, at the University press, 1914. 382 p., illus., plates. 
Bibliography: p. 336-372. 
India. Dept. Agr. Memoirs, v. 4, no. 6 (Entomological series) July, 1914. Grove, A. J., and Ghosh, 0. C. The life- 
history of Psylla isitis Buckt. (Psyllopa punctipennis, Crawford) The Psylla disease of indigo. p. 329-354, col. 
pl. XV-XX. , 
Johnson, J. W. Haigh. A contribution to the biology of sewage disposal, pt. 2. (Journal of economic biology, v. 9, 
no. 4, p. 127-164, illus. December, 1914.) 
Bibliography: p. 1162-1164. 
Minnesota State Entomologist. Fifteenth report . . . 1913 and 1914. (Ninth report of F. L. Washburn.) Agr. 
Exp. Sta., St. Anthony Park, Minn. December 1, 1914. 107 and 98 p. illus. col. pl. 
Tragairdh, Ivar. Sveriges Skoginsekter [forest insects]. Stockholm, Hugo Gebers Forlag, 1914. 279 p illus. 16 
pl. (Dr. Howard’s personal copy available for consultation in Bureau Library.) 
. EDITORIAL WORK 
The following publications have been issued since the December News Letter was mailed: 
: “Quassiin as a contact insecticide,’? Wm. B. Parker. Dept. Bull. 165, December 31, 1914. 
“The chalcis fly in alfalfa seed,’? T. D. Urbahns. Farmer’s Bull. 636, December 31, 1914. 
“Susceptibility of citrus fruits to the attack of the Mediterranean fruit fly,’”? E. A. Back and ©. E. Pemberton. 
Jour. Agric. Research, Vol. III, No. 4, January 15, 1915. 
‘“Three-cornered alfalfa hopper,’”’ V. L. Wildermuth. Jour. Agric. Research, Vol. III, No. 4, January 15, 191 
“Life history of the Mediterranean fruit fly from the standpoint of parasite introduction,’ E. A. Back. Jour. 
Agric. Research, Vol. III, No. 5, February 15, 1915. 
“Cactus solution as an adhesive in arsenical sprays for insects,’? M. M. High. Dept. Bull..160, January 22, 1915. 
““Wireworms attacking cereal and forage crops,’ J. A. Hyslop. Dept. Bull. 156, January 27, 1915. 
“Para-dichlorobenzene as an insect fumigant,’’? A. B. Duckett. Dept. Bull. 167, February 10, 1915. 
“The European pine-shoot moth,’’ August Busck. Dept. Bull. 170, February 9, 1915. 5 
“A method for fumigating seed,’’ E. R. Sasscer and Lon A. Hawkins. Dept. Bull. 186, February 27, 1915. 
“Descriptions of some beetles reared from cotton in Peru,’’ W. D. Pierce. Report 102, Office of the Secretary, 
January 25, 1915. 
“The grasshopper problem and alfalfa culture,’’ F. M. Webster. Farmer’s Bull. 637, January 25, 1915. 
“The Hessian fly,’’ F. M. Webster. Farmer’s Bull. 640, March 17, 1915. 
“Alfalfa attacked by the clover-root curculio,’? F. M. Webster. Farmer’s Bull. 649, February 27, 1915. 
in, “Classification of the subfamily Cryphaline,’’ A. D. Hopkins. Report 99, Office of the Secretary, March 10, 1915. 
“Preliminary classification of the superfamily Scolytoidea,’’ A. D. Hopkins. Technical Series Bull. 17, Part IT, 
January 9, 1915. [Contents and index will follow.] 
“The San Juan scale and its control,’’ A. L. Quaintance. Farmer’s Bull. 650, March 30, 1915. 
*“‘Cockroaches,’’ C. L. Marlatt. Earmer’s Bull. 658, March 27, 1915. 
“The woolly apple aphis,’’ A. C. Baker. Report 101, Office of the Secretary, March 31, 1915. 
‘‘Homemade lime-sulphur concentrate,’’ E. W. Scott. Dept. Bull. 197, March 31, 1915. 
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