Supplement to an annotated list and bibliography of insects reported to have virus diseases

Abstract

does not appear. First page follows. In 1957 Hughes (166) laid the basis for the “Annotated List and Bibliography” by cataloguing a series of 259 papers dealing with virus infections of insects. While Hughes’ list contains most of the important papers published on insect viruses and virus diseases, it does not include many reports which, even if not dealing primarily with virology or pathology, nonetheless contain valuable information for the insect pathologist. This first supplement adds 473 new references to the 259 already published in Hughes’ list. Almost all these papers have been seen in the original or, in a few eases, in photostatic copy of the original (as we are quite adverse to the not uncommon practice of quoting from quotations, thus perpetuating errors). Where the linguistic knowledge of the authors was lacking, translators were consulted; in some cases complete translations were available with the original publication. The present supplement, as in the list by Hughes, includes only a small proportion of the many papers in Japanese or Russian: those included were available in translation or contained a summary complete enough to derive sufficient information on the type of disease concerned. It is gratifying to know that a similar bibliographical survey is being completed at present in the U.S.S.R,. (S. Gershenson, personal communication, 1958). Titles of Japanese and Russian papers appear in translation only, the translation being that given in the summary of the original publication, Papers in English, French, German, and Italian are entered with their original titles and without translations. Translations and original titles appear for papers in Czech, Polish, and Croatian. As in Hughes’ list, an attempt was made to distinguish between nuclear polyhedrosis and cytoplasmic polyhedrosis whenever the information available permitted such a distinction. Those cases in which a polyhedrosis was involved, but without evidence to indicate the type of polyhedrosis, were recorded simply as “polyhedrosis.”