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Hunter (S. J.)- Report of State Entomologist, Lawrence —i2e^^ 



Kansas State Entom. Commiss. for 1915 & 1916, Topeka, 1916, 



pp. 11-15. 



During the biennial period covered by this report, a number of 



insect pests were intercepted and destroyed, inckiding : — Carabus 



granulatus, LacJmosterna, Eriosoma {ScJiizonema) lanigenirn, rusty 



tussock moth [Orgyia antiqiia], LepidosapJies ulmi and L. beckii. 



Coffee Borer. — Planters' Chronicle, Bangalore, xiii, no. 40, 5th October 

 1918, p. 667. 



In 1917 adult cofEee-borer beetles [XylotrecJms quadripes] did not 

 begin to emerge until November. In 1918, however, as a result prob- 

 ably of the very severe drought, adult beetles began to emerge in the 

 second week of September. Since extensive injury is to be feared 

 unless there is sufficient rain, planters are advised to scrub their 

 coffee as previously recommended [see this Review, Ser. A, vi, p. 74] ; 

 the treatment should be carried out once in the third week of October 

 and again in the first week of November, the younger trees receiving 

 the greatest attention. 



NiCHOLLS (H. M.). Fungicides and Insecticides.— ^^fnc. <fe Stock 

 Dept. Tasmania, Bull. no. 59, 1918, 15 pp. 



This bulletin deals at length with the usual fungicides, combined 

 fungicides and insecticides, and insecticides, both internal and contact, 

 and gives full instructions for their preparation and application. 



NiCHOLLS (H. M.). The Currant Borer {Aegeria tipuliformis). — Agric. 

 & Stock Dept. Tasmania, Bull. no. 69, 1917, 8 pp., 5 figcs. 

 [Received 3rd December 1918.] 



Aegeria tipuliformis (currant borer) has been found capable of doing 

 a great deal of damage in Tasmania. In some districts in New Zealand 

 and in America it has put an end to currant growdng altogether, in 

 spite of all attempts to control it, and the same may happen in some 

 parts of Tasmania, if no efforts are made to check its spread. While 

 black currant is the preferred host, red and white varieties are also 

 attacked, as well as gooseberries. The larvae bore into the young 

 shoots and then tunnel down the centre of the branches, eating out 

 the pith, till they very often reach nearly to the roots. The bushes 

 in consequence become sickly and their productiveness is reduced, 

 while the young shoots and- fruit-bearing wood often die altogether. 

 The tunnels in the stems encourage fungous growths, which frequently 

 complete the desti'uction of the bushes. Old infested bushes always 

 have a stunted and gnarled appearance and are sometimes full of 

 stumps where dead branches have rotted oft'. They bear very little 

 fruit and what they do produce is small in size. 



The eggs of A. tipuliformis are laid on the young wood, generally 

 close to where a bud or shoot arises, the incubation period probably 

 being from 10 to 12 days, "j^he larva, upon hatching, proceeds to 

 bore its way into the wood, and on reaching the pith it generally 

 turns downward. Towards the end of the winter a hole is eaten 

 through the wood and almost through the bark at the side of a shoot, 



