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the most effective method now known of reducing the severity of the weevil 

 attacli upon the following crop and that it therefore deserves general recog- 

 nition and adoption as the last step in the treatment of each season's crop and 

 essentially the first step also in the production of a crop with the minimum 

 weevil injury during the following season." 



Notes on Transvaal tobacco pests, C. W. Howard (Transvaal Agi: Jour., 

 6 {1908), No. 2Jf, pp. 609-616, pis. 2, figs. .'/).— The only pests that the author 

 considers at all serious are the cutworm, splitworm, and nematode. Notes 

 are given upon the life history and habits of the splitworm {Phthorinuva 

 opercullela) gall worm {Heterodera radicicoUi), cutworm, bud worm (Hclio- 

 this armiger), pigweed caterpillar {Caradrina exigua), hornworms, aphis or 

 green fly, green bug (Nezara viridula), and curculio beetles {Pcritclus ornntus 

 and Strophosomus sp.). Remedies are considered and directions are given 

 for their application. 



Insect pests of the mangel-wurzel, H. M. Lefroy {Agr. Jour. India. 3 

 (1908), No. 2, pp. 161-163). — The mangel-wurzel, while not one of the ordinary 

 crop plants under cultivation in India, has been I'ecommended as worthy to be 

 made such. The Insects which esi^ecially attack the plant are the surface 

 weevil (Tanymecus indicus), which is followed by the surface caterpillar and 

 later by the indigo caterpillar. 



The earth flea, a common pest of winter vegetables, R. W. Jack (Agr. 

 Jour. Cape Good Hope. 32 (1908), No. .). pp. 615-620, figs. ^).— An account is 

 given of a species of mite belonging to the family Eupodidse which attacks nearly 

 all commonly cultivated vegetables. It is stated that the injury can be largely 

 prevented by clean cultivation and that the pest can be economically destroyed 

 by spraying with the tobacco wash. 



Grain weevils (Bd. Agr. and Fisheries [London], Leaflet 206, pp. Jf, fig. 1). — 

 An account is given of Calandra granaria and C oryzw, with remedial measures. 



The diseases and enemies of useful and ornamental horticultural plants, 

 F. Krxjger and G. Rorig (Krankheiten und Beschddiguiigen der Nutz nnd 

 Zierpflanzen des Gartenbaues. Stuttgart, 1908, pp. VIII+212, pis. It, figs. 

 224). — In this book the author discusses the insect and other animal enemies 

 as well as the plant diseases. Remedies are considered and indexes, of both 

 1)1 ants and enemies, are given. 



Experim.ents with remedies for insect enemies of fruit trees, Truelle 

 (Bui. Soc. Nat. Agr. France, 68 (1908), No. 7, pth 501-513).— X report is given 

 of experiments with remedies for pests of fruit trees, particularly for Hypono- 

 ineuta mainella. 



Massachusetts fruit trees and their insect foes, H. T. Fernald (Agr. of 

 Mass., 1901, pp. 111-138, figs. 16). — ^An address delivered before the meeting of 

 the State board of agriculture in which the insect enemies of fruit trees of the 

 State are discussed. 



Gosford-Narara fruit fly and codling moth control experiment, W. B. 

 GURNEY (Agr. Gaz. N. 8. Wales, 19 (1908), No. 7, pp. .581-584).— The life 

 history of Ceratitis capitata, the regulations in effect in November, 1907, with 

 the jienalty clause concerning care of fruit orchards, in connection with the 

 codling moth and fruit fly, and an account of experiments to demonstrate to 

 growers the practical value of carrying out the provisions of fruit fly regula- 

 tions, are given. 



The orchards were found badly infested with .3 species of fruit fly, the 

 Mediterranean fly (Ceratitis (■apitata), the Queensland fly (Dacus (Tephritis) 

 tryoni), and the Island fly (Try pet a psidii), the species flrst named being the 

 more numerous. The 2 latter species have been bred from native phun or 

 black apple (Sideroxylon australc), berries of white ash (Schizoneria ovata), 



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