MONTHLY LETTER OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Number 194

STATE

June, 1930

INSECTS AFFECTING MAN AND ANIMALS
F. C. Bishopp, in Charge

F. C. Bishopp and W. E. Dove spent the latter half of June in
a general survey of the Southeastern coastal region, in search of a site
for field headquarters for investigations of the sand fly. Various
points were visited between Wilmington, N. C., and Miami, Fla., and
Charleston, S. C., was finally selected.

F. J. Krueger has been appointed Field Assistant, to help carry
on investigations of the sand fly, with temporary headquarters at Savan-
nah, Ga.

H. S. Peters left Washington early in June to join a scientific
expedition to the Florida Keys and the West Indies, headed by Dr. Paul
Bartsch, of the National Museum. Mr, Peters will pay special attention
to the distribution and the breeding conditions of the sand fly, and to
the collection of ticks, Mallophaga, and other ectoparasites of birds and
animals. The expedition is expected to be completed early in the fall
of the present year.

W. V. King left his regular duties at Mound, La., on June 11 for
a trip to Portland, Oreg., and stopped en route at Bozeman, Mont., to
consult entomologists there concerning mosquitoes and ticks. He reached
Portland about June 18, and spent the remainder of the month in a general
survey of an acute problem of infestation by mosquitoes in the vicinity
of that city.

D. C. Parman spent the most of June in a general survey of west-
ern Texas and Oklahoma, studying the distribution of the ectoparasites of

poultry.

On Jure 12 R. W. Wells, of the field laboratory at Galesburg,
111., visited the Rock River Farms at Byron, 111, to investigate some
electrified screens which have been installed there for the control of
flies. He reports that the matter is worthy of further consideration.

Dr. D. F. Miller has been appointed temporary Field Agent, ef-
fective June 11, and assigned to the field laboratory at Beltsville,
Md., to carry on studies in the rearing of blowflies.

Richard Wagner has been appointed temporary Field Agent, effec-
tive June 20, to investigate poultry lice, and assigned to the field

laboratory at Beltsville, Md.

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TRUCK-CROP INSECTS
J. E. Graf, in Charge

C. C. Plummer, Field Assistant, left Columbus, Ohio, June 14,
for Mexico City, Mexico, where he arrived June 17. He v/ill assist B.
J. Landis in the collection, shipping, and study of parasites of the
Mexican bean beetle.

W. A. Thomas, Chadbourn, N. C., visited the berry-growing sections
of the Gulf States during the second week in June to determine the im-
portance of the strawberry weevil ( Anthonomus signatus) in these centers
of early production of strawberries. Incidentally, he visited the field
laboratories at Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss.

M. M. High, in charge of the field laboratory at Gulfport, Miss.,
reports that R. W. Harned, D. W. Grimes, M. L. Grimes, T. F. McGehee,
and G. F. Arnold, of the Mississippi State Plant Board, visited that lab-
oratory on June 14.

P. K. Harrison, formerly employed at Picayune, Miss., but who was
granted leave without pay, received his Master's Degree from the Univer-
sity of Maryland, June 10, and has been reinstated, effective June 18,
as Assistant Entomologist at the new field laboratory at Fairfax, S. C.

J. C. Chamberlin, R. A. Fulton, and C. F. Henderson, of Twin
Falls, Idaho, S. E. Crumb, C. W. Getzendaner, and W. W. Baker, Puyallup,
Wash., M. C. Lane, Walla Walla, Wash., F. H. Shirck, Toppenish, Wash.,
and J. C. Elmore, Santa Ana, Calif., employees of this division, were
authorized to attend the meeting of the American Association of Econo-
mic Entomologists at Eugene, Oreg., June 19 and 20.

R. E. Campbell, who has been on leave without pay, in order to
take graduate work at the University of Minnesota, returned to his offi-
cial duties at Alhambra, Calif., on June 21.

In the fourth week of June N. F. Howard and Alvah Peterson, of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, made a scouting trip to Birmingham, Ala., and other points
in the Southeast, to get first-hand information on the degree of infesta-
tion by the Mexican bean beetle, with a view to the initiation of large-
scale tests in control.

J. N. Tenhet, who has been engaged in the study of wireworms affect-
ing tobacco at Chadbourn, N. C., was transferred on June 27 to Fairfax,
S. G., where he will take charge of the new field laboratory established
there to investigate the sandy-land wireworm.

C. F. Stahl, who has been at Chadbourn, N. C., studying insects
affecting strawberries, was transferred to Sanford, Fla., June 30, to
succeed W. E. Stone, who has been transferred to Mexico City. Mr. Stahl
will be in charge of investigations of celery insects.

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A new instrument has been devised by T. E. Bronson, of the
field laboratory at Madison, Wis., which records on one chart the force
of the downfall of rain and the wind velocity. It will be of great value
in studying the effect of storms upon infestations by the pea aphid.

The summer field laboratory at Columbus, Wis., has been discon-
tinued. The headquarters for investigations of the pea aphid will re-
main at Madison, Wis.

Field Assistants who have been recently appointed are J. F. Roe,
j. H. Lilly, and E. J. Lease, for service at Madison, Wis,, G, Bayer,
at Alhambra, Calif., G. Zelsnick and J. B. Cooper, at Philadelphia, Pa.,
W. C. Newman and J, G. Wilson, at Sanford, Fla., J. R. Weedon, at Nor-
folk, Va., W, A. Lyon and S. C. Lyon, at Clarksville, Tenn., F. B. Cot-
ner, at Bozeman, Mont., D. M. DeLong, C. W. Eagleson, J. A. Gillett,
H. A. Waters, A. C. Cole, Jr., and C. T. McCoy, at Twin Falls, Idaho, E. C.
Murdock, at Grand Junction, Colo., H. E. Dorst, at Richfield, Utah., A. E._
Bonn and P. M. Eide, at Puyallup, Wash., P. C. Ting, at Santa Ana, Calif.,
R. W. Brubaker, A. Peterson, and C. C. Plummer, at Columbus, Ohio,
J. G. Shaw, at Estancia, N. M., and R. H. Davidson, at Geneva, N. Y.

BEE CULTURE

Jas. I. Ham'bleton, in Charge

Prof. George H. Vansell, of Davis. Calif., spent three days in
June with Dr. A. P. Sturtevant at the Intermcuntain Bee Culture Field
Laboratory, Laramie, Wyo., studying methods of diagnosing diseases of bees .

J. E. Eckert, Associate Apiculturist at the field laboratory at
Laramie, Wyo., will continue this summer his work on the flight range of
the honeybee. The experimental work will be conducted in the San Luis

Valley.

Jas. I. Hambleton visited the Northwestern Experiment Farm (co-
operative investigations) of the Bureau of Plant Industry, at Holgate,
Ohio, on June 10 to 12, to confer with Dr. E. A. Hollowell, of that Bu-
reau, concerning the details of experiments to be conducted there this
summer on the relation of honeybees to the pollinatiou of red clover.
Prof. W. E. Dunham, of Ohio State University, and Frank Bailey, a stu-
dent at the University, have been appointed Field Assistants, and w ill
be responsible for the apicultural features of the experiments. This
work is to be conducted cooperatively with the Bureau of Plant Industry.

Dr. C. S. Hudson, of the National Institute of Health, visited
the Bee Culture Laboratory on June 23. Doctor Hudson is interested in
obtaining a supply of melezitose, a rare sugar which honeybees occasion-
ally gather when they have access to scrub pines. 4

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FOREST INSECTS
F. C. Craighead, in Charge

Dr. Craighead spent June 9 to 13 at Asheville, N. C., in consul-
tation with R. A. St. George regarding plans for work during the sum-
mer at the field laboratory there. On June 23 he left Washington for
a trip of inspection of the western field laboratories of this division.

L. G. Baumhofer reported at Halsey, Nebr. , on June 20, to resume
his work on the tip moth affecting pine plantations there.

Letters recently received by Dr. T. E. Snyder from city build-
ing inspectors of Long Beach and Monrovia, two cities in California,
bring news that those cities have recently included in the mandatory
sections of their building codes the provisions recommended by the Bu-
reau of Entomology for the prevention of damage by termites.

Contributions from the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory

Visitors to the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory in June included H. L. Bailey,
Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, Montpelier, Vt., H. B. Weiss,
Chief, Bureau of Statistics and Inspection, and E. G. Rex, Japanese Beetle
Control, Trenton, N. J., June 20, C. F. Doucette, Bureau of Entomology,
Sumner, Wash., June 21, and Fred C. Brosius, Plant Quarantine and Control
Administration, San Francisco, Calif.

College students given temporary appointments as Field Assistants
at the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory in June are J. H. Lybass, H. D. Freeman,
and R. K. Voorhees, of the University of Florida, T. 0. Fitzgerald, of
the University of Tennessee, R. H. Fox, of the University of New Hampshire,
and G. W. Oliver and C. W. Manty, of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col-
lege.

R. R. Whitten, who graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural
College in 1929, was appointed Junior Entomologist on June 23.

Dr. J. R. Hobbs, of Harvard University Medical School, and Dr.
W. H. Sawyer, jr., of Bates College, have been given temporary appoint-
ments as Field Assistants for the summer, in connection with studies
being conducted by the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory. Dr. Hobbs is studying
certain bacterial diseases, and Dr. Sawyer certain fungous diseases.

In June shipments of Calosoma sycophanta beetles were sent from
the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory to the State of Washington. Part of these
have been liberated by J. C. Evenden in areas where the fir tussock moth,
Hemerocampa pseudosugata McD., is present, and the remainder have been
liberated under direction of C. F. Dcucette in areas infested by the
satin moth, Stilpnotia salicis L. Shipments of puparia of the tachinid
fly Compsilura concinnata Meig. have also been sent to Mr. Doucette and
to A. B, Baird, of the Dominion Parasite Laboratory, Belleville, Ontario.

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The flies issuing from these puparia will be liberated in infestations
of the satin moth in the State of Washington and in British Columbia.

Large shipments of gipsy-moth parasites .from the European labor-
atory at Budapest, Hungary, began arriving at the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory
during the latter part of June.

J. V. Schaffner, jr., of the Gipsy-Moth Laboratory, spent June
1 to 6 with R. Nash, assistant to H. B. Peirson, State Entomologist of
Maine, investigating injury to spruce in Maine by a webworm, Epinotia
nan an a Tr. An attempt was made to obtain information regarding the
area affected and the seriousness of the injury.

DECIDUOUS-FRUIT INSECTS
A. L. Quaintance, in Charge

The peach-insect field laboratory at Fort Valley, Ca., has been
moved from Troutman Avenue to Church Street, in that city. The new lo-
cation is central, and affords more floor space and ground than before
for carrying on the work of the laboratory. In the building is a well-
equipped chemical laboratory, a laboratory for spray machinery and in-
secticides, a room for insect breeding, a photographic room, a shop,
an exhibit room, a library, and offices. There is an acre of ground
around the laboratory, providing space for field experiments, and con-
taining a large insectary, a barn, and other buildings. Dr. B. A. Por-
ter and G. F. Moznette visited the laboratory on June 26.

Contributions from the Japanese-Beetle Laboratory

On June 6 W. E. Steenburgh, of Belleville, Ontario, Canada, vis-
ited the laboratory to obtain parasites of the oriental fruit moth.

Prof. Herbert Osborn, Research Professor of Entomology, Ohio
State University, visited the laboratory June 13. He was much interes-
ted in meeting the various workers there and observing the laboratory
equipment .

Edward A. Chapin, of the taxonomic unit, at Washington, D. C.,
visited the laboratory on June 20.

On June 23 Prof. C. C. Hamilton, of the New Jersey State Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, visited the laboratory to confer with
members of the staff.

On June 23 Dr. Philip Garman, of the Connecticut Agricultural
Experiment Station, visited the laboratory to obtain parasites of the
oriental fruit moth.

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TROPICAL, SUBTROPICAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANT INSECTS
A. C. Baker, in Charge

By invitation, E. A. McGregor addressed the Association of County
Agricultural Commissioners at the annual meeting, held May 23 at Redding,
Calif. The subject of the address was "Citrus pest control, with
special reference to sulphur dusting." In connection with this trip into
northern California, observations were made in citrus groves in the
Oroville district.

Dr. Baker left Washington on June 10 for Mexico City, to visit the
laboratory there and to confer with the members of the staff regarding
the work under way on the Mexican fruit worm.

W. E. Stone was transferred to this division, effective June
16, joined Dr. Baker in Texas, and accompanied him to Mexico. He will
have charge of the administrative work of the project of the Mexican
fruit worm in Mexico.

On June 19 and 20 E. A. McGregor, of the field laboratory at
Lindsay, Calif., and Randall Latta, of Sumner, Wash., attended the
annual meeting of the Pacific Slope Branch of the American Association
of Economic Entomologists.

F. J. Spruijt, in charge of the division's bulb-insect labora-
tory at Babylon, N. Y. , spent June 3 and 4 in Washington for consulta-
tion with Bureau officials.

James M. McGough has been appointed Junior Entomologist, to as-
sist Paul A. Berry in Cuba in work on the parasites of tho citrus black
fly.

In June A. J. Haas was appointed temporary Field Assistant, to
assist in experiments relating to the studies on oil spray being con-
ducted at the field laboratory at New Orleans.

Dr. S. A. Watson, of Whittier College, L. C. Fife, of the Utah
State Agricultural College, R. P. Buckner, of Whittier College, and J.
W. Mehl, of the California Institute of Technology, have been appointed
temporary Field Assistants at the field laboratory at Whittier, Calif.,
where they v/ill assist in the study of the resistance to hydrocyanic-
acid gas of certain scale insects affecting citrus.

C. H. Huff, of Ohio State University, has been given temporary
appointment as Field Assistant, to help with the experimental work that
is being done on bulb insects at Babylon, N. Y.

T. R. Hansberry, P. M. Scheffer, and Dudley Young have been tem-
porarily appointed Field Assistants at Sumner, Wash., to help in field
experiments and studies on fumigation that are being conducted in the
Northwest on bulb flies.

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COTTON INSECTS
B. R. Coad, in Charge

J. W. Ingram, Assistant Entomologist at the New Orleans field
laboratory, visited the Delta Laboratory on June 24 and 25 to obtain
information on the technique of studying certain minute insects that
injure the roots of sugarcane.

On June 2 C. H. Gaddis, Entomologist of the Georgia State Board
of Agriculture, was a visitor to the field laboratory at Tallulah.

In June Mr. Coad spent some days at College Station, Tex., com-
pleting arrangements for the cooperative project undertaken with the
entomologists of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. This pro-
ject is primarily concerned with control of the cotton bollworm, but
also deals with the problem of control measures for simultaneous infesta-
tions of cotton by several pests, such as have been occurring in central
Texas in recent years. E. W. Dunnam, who spent last winter on leave,
completing work for his doctorate, has been returned to the service
and permanently assigned to College Station for work on this project.
R. W. Moreland, of the field laboratory at Tallulah, has also been as-
signed to College Station for the present season.

Near the end of June, Messrs, McCinley and Payne visited Kansas
City and Wichita to inspect airplanes offered for purchase by the De-
partment of Agriculture.

Mr. Coad recently visited the State and Federal Experiment Sta-
tions at Poplarville and McNeill, Miss., on business relating to cot-
ton insects there.

H. C. Young, of the field laboratory at Tucson, Ariz., has re-
turned to Oklahoma, to take charge of field work in experiments on
control of the boll weevil. These experiments have been carried on for
the last two years in cooperation with the Oklahoma Experiment Station
and Extension Service.

G. L. Smith has returned to the field laboratory at Tallulah from
Presidio, Tex., where he was scouting for the pink bollworm during the

last winter.

The following temporary Field Assistants were appointed and re-
ported for duty in the month of June: At Florence, S. C., M. R. Buffkin,

E. V. Welch, M. C, Brunson, jr., R. J. Groover, and E. E. Rogers; at

Tallulah, La., James Watkins, R. P. Patty, G. W. Davis, H. D. Tate, L.
H. Stubblefield, C. F. Rainwater, F. D. Smith, R. W. Bunn, H. B. Mills,

K. H. Smith, P. H. Berry, H. R. Johnson, H. S. Young, and T. F. Hender-

son.

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TAXONOMY

Harold Morrison, in Charge

Madame Lidia Antinoro, Stazione Sperimentale por la Lotta Anti-
malarica, Rome, Italy, spent parts of the interval June 5 to 20 in the
National Museum, examining the collections of ticks, mosquitoes, and
blood-sucking flies, and in consultation with H. E. Ewing and C. T.
Greene, the Bureau's specialists in these groups.

T. Bainbrigge-Fietcher, Imperial Entomologist of India, located
at Pusa, India, recently donated to Mr. Busck for the collections about
600 species of Indian Microlepidoptera, all reared and authoritatively
named. This gift makes a very important addition to - the National col-
lections, and will aid materially in the identification of specimens
from the region about Pusa.

Richard Dow, a student at the Bussey Institution, Forest Hills,
Mass., visited the taxonomic unit June 11, to examine certain sphecoid
wasps of the genera Trypoxylon and Podium in the collections.

On June 20 Dr. E. A. Chapin, of the Bureau's taxonomic unit,
left Washington to spend about 10 days examining the collection of
beetles in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa., at the
Japanese Beetle Laboratory, Moorestown, N. J., and in the American
Museum of Natural History, New York City.

Alan Nicolay, of Montclair, N. J., spent June 27 in the National
Museum, examining types of beetles in the Casey Collection of Coleop-
tera.

Dr. W. Dwight Pierce arrived in Washington from the Philippine
Islands about June 1, and is making his temporary headquarters at the
National Museum. He is revising manuscripts and seeing to the identi-
fications of various economic insects which he sent back from the Phil-
ippines, as a result of his intensive work on sugarcane insects there.

INSECT PEST SURVEY
J. A. Hyslop, in Charge

Dr. F. M, Wadley, of the Insect Pest Survey, was in Kansas and
adjoining States for about six weeks in May and June, observing the
recurrence of Brood IV of the periodical cicada. He made a consider-
able addition to survey records. Some environmental studies were made
which are of special interest because this brood extends farther west
than any other, and farther south than other 17-year broods except those
which occur in the mountains.

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CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS
W. H. Larrimer, in Charge

M. M. Darley and Ford H. Harries, of the field laboratory at
Salt Lake City, Utah, resigned from the service, effective June 16,
to complete work for their doctorates at the Ohio State University.

In this division, in June, Bernard A. App was appointed Junior
Entomologist, for service at Sandusky, Ohio, Loyd L. Stitt, Junior E nto
mologist, for service at Tempe, Ariz., Heber C. Donohoe, Field Assistant,
at Bozeman, Mont., Jack Z. Horton, Field Assistant, at Wichita, Kans., R.
Swain, Field Assistant, at Webster Groves, Mo., and John T. Bigham and
James G. Conklin, Field Assistants, at Arlington Farm, Rosslyn, Va.

T. E. Holloway, in charge of the field laboratory at New Orleans,
La., spent June 19 to June 23 in the Washington office in consultation
with Bureau officials regarding the work on sugarcane insects.

George G. Ainslie and George W. Barber visited the Washington
office in June, while on vacation.

John W. Scrivener has been appointed Agent, effective June 16,
for duty at Arlington Farm, Rosslyn, Va.

The field laboratory recently at Richmond, Va., a branch of that
at Charlottesville, Va., has been transferred to Savannah, Ga. Dr.
George W. Barber will remain in charge.

STORED-PRODUCT INSECTS
E. A. BACK, in Charge

R. T. Cotton attended a grain fumigation in New York on June 3.

On June 5 W, D. Reed left Fresno, Calif., for Washington, where
he arrived June 10. He will take charge of investigations of the tobacco
beetle. On June 30 he went to Danville, Va. , his new headquarters.

Perez Simmons was sent by the Fresno Rotary Club as one of its
delegates to the National Convention of Rotary. Clubs held in Chicago
in the latter part of June. During the past year Mr. Simmons has been
chairman of the program committee of the club at Fresno.

C. K. Fisher, who on July 1 will assume charge of investigations
of the bean weevil, left Modesto, Calif., for Washington, on June 26 .

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The property at Sligo, Md. , formerly leased as a laboratory of
the Division of Deciduous-Fruit Insects, has been issued by this divi-
sion for similar purposes for the coming year. Alterations and repairs
were in progress in the latter part of June.

Clarence R. Collins, of the Kansas State Agricultural College,
has been appointed temporary Field Assistant, with headquarters at Man-
hattan, Kans.

William G. Hamilton, a student of American University, Washing-
ton, D. C., has been appointed temporary Field Assistant, with head-
quarters at Sligo, Md.

LIBRARY

Mabel Colcord, Librarian
NEW BOOKS

Bayliss, H. A.

. . . Parasitic Nematoda and Acanthocephala collected in 1925-
1927. p. [541]-599, illus. Cambridge, University Press, 1929.
(Discovery Reports, v. 1.)

Bryk, Felix.

Papilionidae II (Papilio) . 59-509 p. Berlin, W. Junk, 1930.

(Lepidopterorum Catalogus, Embrik Strand, pt. 37.)

Guyer, M. F.

Animal micrology . . . ed. 3, 303 p., illus. Chicago, Univer-
sity of Chicago Press [1930].

Imms , A . D .

A general textbook of entomology, including the anatomy, phys-
iology, development and classification of insects. Ed. 2, rev.
703 p., illus. London, Methuen & Co., ltd., 1930.

Kramer, Ulrich.

Die Rassenzucht der schweizer Imker . . . hrsg. vom Vorstand des
Vereins Deutsch-Schweizerischer Bienenfreunde . 7 Aufl. 208 p.,

illus. Aarau, Sauerlander & Co., 1930.

Kruckeberg, H. W.

George Christian Roeding, 1868-1928. The story of California's
leading nurseryman and fruit grower. A tribute written and pre-
pared by direction of the Roeding Memorial Committee, under au-
thority of the California Association of Nurserymen . . . 109

p., plates, port. Los Angeles, The California Association of
Nurserymen, 1930.

Lindner, Erwin.

Die Fliegen der palaearktischen Region. Lfg. 30-31. Stuttgart,
E. Schweizerbart ' sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Erwin Nagele), 1928.

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Schenkling, S.

Coleopterorum Catalogus, pt. 107-110. Berlin, W. Junk, 1930.
Contents: Part 107. Hetschko, A. Colydiidae. 124 p. Part

108. Hetschko, A. Phalacridae, Mycetophagidae, Tretothoraci-
dae, Jacobsoniidae, Cavicoxumidae, Gnostidae. 26 p. Part 109.
Hetschko, A. Cucuj iidae, Thorictidae (Suppl.), Cossyphcdidae
(Suppl.) 122 p. Part 110. Dalla Torre, K. W. , & Vos, E. Cur-
culionidae: Archolabinae, Attelabinae, Apcderinae. 142 p.

Shincda, Osamu.

Contributions to the knowledge of intestinal secretion of in-
sects. III. On the digestive enzymes of the silkworm. Jour-
nal of Biochemistry, v. 11, p. 345-367, January, 1930.

Smith, T.

The breeding of Lepidoptera. North Staffordshire Field Club.
Transactions and Annual Report, v. 60, p. 96-102, 1926.

Stichel, H.

Ricdinidae I: Nemeobiinae I. 112 p. Berlin, W. Junk, 1930.
(Lepidopterorum Catalogus, ed. Embrik Strand, pt. 33.)

Theobald, F. V.

The plant lice or Aphididae of Great Britain, v. 3, 364 p., il-
lus. Ashford, Kent, Headley Brothers, 1929.

Wille, Johannes.

. . . Die Riibenblattwanze Piesma quadrata Fieb. 116 p. , illus.
Berlin, Julius Springer, 1929. (Monographien zum Pflanzenschutz,
hrsg. von . . . H. Morstatt. No. 2.)

Oberthur, Charles.

Etudes de iepidopterologie comparee. Fasc. XXII, pt. 1-2, Fasc.
XXIII. Rennes, Imprimerie Oberthur, 1924-1925.

Pinto, Caesar.

Tratado de parasitologia. v. 4, pt. 1-2. 2 v., illus. Rio de Ja-
neiro, Pimenta de Mello & C., 1930. (Bibliotheca scientifica

Brasileira dirigida pelo Prof. Dr. Pontes de Miranda.) Contents:
Arthropcdes parasitos e transmissores de doengas.

Plavilstshikov, N. N.

. . . Die Agapantica Arten der palaearktischen Region. 40 p.
Troppau, Reitter, 1930. (Bestimmungstabellen der europaischen
Coleopteren, 98 Heft.)

Regan, W. S.

Results of insecticide tests for the control of codling moth and
observations on codling moth activity in the Yakima Valley, Wash-
ington. Season of 1929. 16 p. Berkeley, Calif., and Yakima,

Wash., California Spray-Chemical Company, 1929.

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