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ScHOENE (W. J.). Oriental Peach fioth.— J 1th Rept. State Entomologist 

 & Plant Pathohgist Virginia, 1916-1917; Richmond, 1918, pp. 

 6-7. [Received 12th March 1919.] 



The oriental peach moth, Cydia (Laspeyresia) molesta, has been 

 re-introduced into the United States from Japan, a single specimen 

 having been reared from a shipment of pears received at Seattle, 

 Washington. Accounts of this pest have already been noticed [see 

 this Review, Ser. A, v, p. 75 and vi, pp. 369 and 373]. It is stated 

 that the larvae may attack the fruit at places other than the point 

 of attachment of the stem, especially where the skin has been already 

 injured. If the fruit is ripe, or nearly so, the entrance point of the 

 larva may be invaded by brown-rot fungus, the larva often continuing 

 its development in the fungus-invaded and decaying flesh of the 

 peach, which under these combined attacks may fall to the ground. 



Fromme (F. D.) & ScHOENE (W. J.). Dusting and Spraying for Apple 

 Scab and Codling Moth. — 11th Rept. State Entomologist & Plant 

 Pathologist Virginia, 1916-1917; Richmond, 1918, pp. 22-26, 1 fig. 

 [Received 12th March 1919.] 



Experimental dusting and spraying against apple scab and codling 

 moth [Cydia pomonella] shows that satisfactory results in dealing 

 with the latter pest are obtained by a dusting mixture consisting of 

 sulphur, hydrated lime and lead arsenate, and also by spraying with 

 a lime-sulphur and lead-arsenate solution, but that one of lime- 

 sulphur and nicotine sulphate gave less satisfactory results. 



Smulyan (M. T.). Observations during 1916 of the Aphids most 

 common on the Apple.— 2M Rept. State Entomologist & Plant 

 Pathologist Virginia, 1916-1917; Richmond, 1918, pp. 27-39, 1 

 plate. [Received 12th March 1919.] 



These observations on the Aphids most common on the apple during 

 1916, supplement and confirm those of the previous year [see this 

 Review, Ser. A, iv, p. 340]. 



Dangerous Pests found in European Shipments. — Wkly. Press Bull. 

 Pennsylvania Dept. Agric, Harrisburg, iv, no. 9, 6th March 1919. 



During the inspection of a consignment of French nursery stock 

 by the inspectors of the Department of Agriculture at the beginning 

 of March, a living caterpillar of the brown-tail moth [Nygmia phaeo- 

 rrhoea] and the eggs of the gipsy-moth [Porthetria dispar] were found. 

 These pests are not known to be established in Pennsylvania or the 

 adjacent States, but they have cost the New England states more 

 than £6,000,000 in losses to forests and woodlands and in expenditures 

 for control. On 1st July 1919 the Federal Quarantine restricting 

 plant imports becomes effective and the risk of the introduction of 

 foreign pests will be thereby greatly reduced. 



