JOUENAl, OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 209 



PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE PARASITES OF 

 COCCUS HESPERIDUM 



P. H. Timberlake 



Jour. Economic Entomology, Vol. VI, No S, 1913 



In this paper a short sketch of Coccus hesperidum itself 

 is given and then a very careful description of the five parasites 

 and eight hyi^erparasites of the scale. The author closes with a 

 paragraph on the source of the soft scale in California and a 

 paragraph on the predaceous enemies of the scale. 



George Ash. 



The first of a series of pamphlets on the "Control of the 

 Orange Maggot (Tryprta ludeiis)" has been published by D. L. 

 Crawford for the Mexico Gulf Coast Citrus Association. Mr. 

 Crawford studied this pest while he was in Mexico in the summer 

 of 1910. Because of his knowledge of the subject, this associa- 

 tion called him to Mexico last summer to lay out directions for 

 fighting the Orange Maggot. 



The circular states that the Orange Maggot is distributed over 

 a large portion of Mexico. It attacks several fruits other than 

 citrus fruits and this makes it more difficult to control. In order 

 that the members of the association may work intelligently on 

 the fly, a bi-ief life history is given. Mr. Crawford gives two 

 sets of directions for the control work. One method is to pick 

 up the fruit as fast as it falls and to destroy it while the maggot 

 is still working inside. The other method is to spray the trees 

 with a poisoned, sweetened liquid in the period when the flies 

 appear. The flies eat this poisoned bait and are killed. 



E. T. McFadden. 



