110 Journal op the Department of Agriculture. 



Vedalia for Brazil. — The present activity of the Division in 

 connection with heneficial insects biing-s to mind that in the last year 

 it was successful in having sendings of the Vedalia ladybird reach 

 Ceylon and Brazil m satisfactory condition. In both of these 

 countries outbreaks of the Australian bug were causing apprehension, 

 and South African help in getting the Vedalia was officially requested. 

 Many sendings of the ladybird were sent to Ceylon before any of the 

 insects reached there alive, while success very quickly crowned the 

 Brazil efforts, a sending by the Senior Entomologist at Capetown 

 being reported on by the State of Sao Paulo Chief Entomologist, 

 under date of 7th April, as follows : " We have received the fine large 

 sending of the Vedalia from the captain of the " Samatra Maru." 

 It came in cold storage and reached us in splendid condition — nothing 

 whatever dead, but all alive and in all stages from eggs to adults 

 including every size of larva. There must have been thousands of 

 the Vedalia in all stages. . . . The Secretary and the Director of 

 Agriculture both request me to say that the State of Sao Paulo very 

 deeply appreciates your great kindness and untiring efforts in getting 

 the Vedalia to us in good condition. This shipment is a perfect 

 success from every point of view. . . . We now have a shipment of 

 the Vedalia en route here from Florida. . . . We also have an expert 

 in Italy who will make shipments from that country and Portugal 

 later on. . . . We have an inspector in Montevideo now securing 

 material there. Smith, of California, has just sent word that lie can 

 make us a sending. So we are literally getting the Vedalia from the 

 four corners of the world, but your shipment is the first to arrive 

 and cannot be surpassed if even equalled by any other." 



Pink Boll Worvi in Angola. — The menace of pink boll worm, 

 the most feared pest of cotton, has been further emphasized by the 

 finding of the pest by Mr. C. B. Hardenberg, the Portuguese East 

 Africa Entomolcgist, in a consignment of cotton seed which arrived 

 at Lourenco Marques in the middle of December from Mossamedes 

 (Angola) en route for a Mozambique destination. The Division of 

 Entomology is unable to find any record indicating that the pest is 

 recognized in Angola. 



Woolly Aphis Parasite. — The arrival of parasitized woolly aphis, 

 sent from the IJnited States by A. E. Lundie, a South African student 

 at Cornell University, was chronicled in the last issue of the Journal. 

 The material was at first in charge of C. W. Mally, Senior Ento- 

 mologist at Capetown. Adult parasites began to emerge on 6th 

 December, 17 days after the material was taken from the cool-room 

 of the vessel by v/hich it arrived. By the 14th about 1870 %vere out 

 and then, to increase the chances for making the introduction a 

 success, the remaining material was transferred to Pretoria. It was 

 thought that the material was practically spent when it left Cape- 

 town, but to the glad surprise of every one concerned, parasites have 

 continued to emerge from it, the total yield to the time of writing 

 being about 8400. Unfortunately woolly aphis is at present uncom- 

 monly scarce for it, both in the south-western districts and in the 

 Transvaal, and difficulty has therefore been experienced in finding 

 suitable trees in which to place the parasites. Liberations have been 

 made in an orchard at Stellenbosch and in one near Pretoria and also 



