mare gee 
The first shipment of parasite material received from Europe this 
year came from Poland and reached the Gipsy Moth Laboratory on May 18. 
Other shipments have since been received from Poland, Jugoslavia, Hungary, 
and Austria. The material has consisted of tachinid puparia and hymenop- 
terous cocoons of the genus Hyposoter. Biological studies are being car- 
ried on at the laboratory with some of the tachinids received, especially 
in an attempt to find out what native insects may serve as overwintering 
hosts. 

LIBRARY 
Mabel Colcord, Librarian 
NEW BOOKS 
Autenrieth, Wilhelm. 
Laboratory manual for the detection of poisons. 698 p., illus. 
Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1928; 
Carter, H. R. 
Malaria. Lessons on its cause and prevention for use in schools. 
Svp-e ps. (oup: 18 to Public Health Reports July (27) 914hheve 
ea.cApr, 1988:.) 
Catalogue of Indian insects. Part 14. Palpicornia, by A. d'Orchymont. 
146 p., 1928. Part 16. Cosmopterygidae, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 
55 p., 1928. Part 17. Yponomeutidae, by T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 
Pond. toco. | Calcutta, Central Publication Branch. 
China Journal. Special silk number. v. 8, No. 5, May, 1928. (Contents: 
Sowerby, A. de C., What silk means to Shanghai. p. 221-224; Fer- 
guson, J. (@., History of silk in China, p. 225-226; Chatley, Her— 
bert, How silk came to Europe, p. 226-227; Huber, C0. J., The po- 
tentialities of the silk industry of China, p. 227-252; Buchanan, 
R. E., A comparative study of cocoons, p. 233-257; Morise, Y., 
Wild silk in Manchuria, p. 238-246; Sowerby, A. de C., Through the 
silk producing districts of central China, p. 248-250; Reports 
from silk improvement and experiment stations in China for 1927; 
Kellogg, C. R., The life of the silkworm, p. 256-262; Kellogg, C. 
R. Diseases of the silkworm, p. 261-272; The Silk Association of 
America and improvement of silk industry in China, p. 277-278.) 
Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, hrsg. Friedrich Dahl. 7. Teil. Mrozek—Dahl, 
Tenge. Coleoptera oder kafer. 1. Carabidae (Laufkafer). 210 p. 
illus. 8. Teil. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. iii. Opiliones, 
Pseudoscorpionidae-Pantopodae Pentastomidae, 94 p.. illus. Jena, 
Fischer, 1928. 
Escherich, Karl. Neuzeitliche Bekampfung tierischer Schadlinge. 32 p. 
Berlin, Springer, 1927. 
Langstroth, L. L. 
Langstroth on the hive and honey bee, rev. by Charles and C. P. 
Dadant. This ed. (23) rev. and rewritten by C. P. Dadant. 438 p., 
illus., pl. Hamilton, Il1., American Bee Journal, 1927. 
Lee, A. B. 
Lee's microtomist's vade mecum .. . Ed. 9. Ed. by J. Bronte 
Gatenby and E. V. Cowdry. 710 p., illus. Philadelphia, P. Blak- 
iston's Son & Co., 1928. 

