Sept. 2, ldOS:\ Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 765 



The iiHitli is a very haiidsoiiie little tricen eiea lue, ;iii(l the >s].) cies fcjund 

 upon cotton growing at the Hawkeshury College, and also at Moi-ee, and 

 described in the Agricultural Gazette as Earias fahia (1903), is identical with 

 this vai-iable and widely distributed species. 



The fruit industry is very poorly represented in Cairo ; most of the best 

 oranges are imported, and it is very curious that while there is some Red Hcale 

 upon the orange trees here, the common and by far the worst scale of the 

 citrus trees in Egypt is the Round Scale (Aspidiofns Jici), the fruit often 

 being thickly encrusted with the scale. There are quite a number of apricot 

 gardens around Cairo, but the trees are let run wild, apparently all seedlings, 

 and though they are irrigated, they are very small, and are gathered l)y shaking 

 the trees and gathering them out of the dust. In the market there was a 

 great quantity of fine vegetables of all kinds, and on several stalls 1 saw 

 bundles of vine leaves for sale ; the seller told me that the Arabs slice them 

 up and eat them with rice. 



I visited the Survey Department, where I saw all the plans of the Nile 

 Delta lands, with their thousands of little plots of freehold land, often only 

 three yards wide and a couple of hundreds yards long — yet it keeps a family. 



At the Veterinary Department I met Mr. Littlewood, who gave me some 

 notes on the many diseases that attack the stock, and said they had not the 

 least idea of the number of sheep or horses in Egypt, but roughly there were 

 718,000 cattle and 781,000 buffaloes on the returns for 1907 ; great numbers 

 of stock of all kinds were imported every year for food, while 44,000 camels 

 were also imported from Asia for food last year. 



In going through the Entomological collection, while Mr. Willcocks had 

 no specimens of the fruit-fly, Dacns longistyhis, that has been several times 

 recorded from Cairo, I found he had a number of specimens of our Mediter- 

 ranean fruit-fly (Ilalferophora capitata), which, as far as I know, has never been 

 recorded from Egypt. These were bred from Egyptian oranges. 



As I was informed that the conditions of cultivation all over Egypt were 

 the same, and I would have had to remain six days longer in Cairo if I mi.ssed 

 the next mail boat, I took my passage in the R.M.S. " China," and reached 

 Port Said late on Tuesday night f 19th), tiunshipped at Aden into the R.M.S. 

 " Oriental " on the 24th, and expect to reach Bombay on the 29th. I expect 

 to be there two or three weeks, come down to Ceylon, and, after a week at the 

 Entomological Station, leave for Australia. 



I have, etc., 



AVALTER W. FROGGATT. 

 To the Alinister of Agriculture, New South Wales. 



Sir, R.MS. "Omrah." 



I have the honour to report that since my last letter I have been 



over a considerable portion of the Agricultural districts of India and Ceydon, 



and am expecting to reach Fremantle in two days, where T leave this boat, 



to visit the West Australian Department of Agriculture, and come on to 



