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ABSTRACT Vluable memoirs published by the Entomological Division of the United States Department of Agriculture are constantly reaching us. Of these, Bulletin 110, on “The Spring


Grain-Aphis, or Green-bug,” by F. M. Webster and W. J. Phillips, is of more than passing interest. The species described—_Toxoptera graminum_, Rondani—has been noticed as seriously


destructive to wheat and other cereals in North America—especially in the Middle Western States—during several seasons from 1890. In the eastern hemisphere it has been recorded only from a


few localities—Italy, Hungary, Belgium, India, South and East Africa. The bulletin, extended to 150 pages, gives a full account of the insect, its embryology, postnatal development, habits,


and natural enemies. An interesting bionomical observation is that south of the 35th parallel the species reproduces itself only by successive generations of virgin females, and even further


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Economic Entomology_ . _Nature_ 91, 332–333 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091332a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 29 May 1913 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/091332a0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE


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