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Caillol (H.). Description d 'un Acanthoscelides nouveau, de Timbouctou 

 (Col , Bruchidae). — Bull. Soc. Entom. France, Paris, 1919, no. 2, 

 22nd January 1919, pp. 53-54. 

 A Bruchid, Bruchus {Acanthoscelides) trahuti, sp. n., is described, 



occurring in the seeds of Vigna sinensis (cowpea), from Timbuctoo. 



LiCHTENSTEm (J. L.) & PiCARD (F.). Notes biologiques sur les 

 Braconides (Hym.). 2® note. — Bull. Soc. Entom. France, Paris, 

 1919, no. 2, 22nd January 1919, pp. 62-64. 

 Since the publication of a previous note [see this Review, Ser. A, 

 vi, p. 476], Spathius pedestris, Wesm., has been oj^tained from fig- 

 trees containing only Anobium striatum, Oliv., and Gastrallus laevigatus, 

 Oliv. ; the parasitism of this species on Anobiids is therefore confirmed. 

 S. curvicaudis, Ratz., is recorded for the first time in France, two 

 individuals having been taken in flight. Dendrosoter protuberans, 

 Nees, was obtained from pines attacked by Pityogenes quadridens, 

 Hart., and also from Scolytus midtistriatus. Marsh., in branches of 

 Rhamnus alaternus, L. D. ferrugineus, Marsh., which has previously 

 been recorded as parasitic upon Sinoxylon sexdentatum [loc. cit.], 

 has also been taken in numbers parasitising Scobicia chevrieri. Villa, 

 on fig. It is an external parasite, the larva devouring the body 

 of its Ijost and then pupating in the gallery constructed by it. Doryctes 

 leucogaster, Nees, which had been reared from fig branches, was 

 previously thought to be a parasite of Hesperophanes griseus, F., but 

 is now found to attack Clytus pilosus, Forst. {glabromaculatus, Goeze). 

 D. pomarius, Reinh., a parasite of Scolytids, has been found to attack 

 Ips laricis ; this species had not previously been recorded in France 

 D. striatellus, Nees, has been observed, in company with Dorcatoma 

 dresdensis, Hbst., and D. setosella, Muls., issuing from a fungus on 

 cherry and plum trees ; this species is therefore apparently not 

 parasitic upon Longicorns. Sigalphus caudatus, Nees, has already 

 been noted as parasitic upon several insects ; to these may be added 

 Thamnurgus euphorbiae, Kiist., in stems of Euphorbia cliaracias. 

 S. luteipes, Thoms., destroys Bruchus affinis, Frolich, in pods of 

 Lathyrus silvestris. Apanteles sicurius, Marsh., previously known only 

 in England, where it is parasitic upon larvae of the moth, Polychrosis 

 (Sericoris) littoralis, Westw., was bred at Montpellier in June from 

 larvae of Hemerophila {Simaethis) nemorana, Hb,, on fig. 



SmTH (H. S.). Biennial Report of the Insectary Division, State 

 Commission of Horticulture, 1917-18.— Mthly. Bull. Cal. State 

 Commiss. Hortic, Sacramento, viii, no. 2, February 1919, pp. 44- 

 51, 2 figs. 

 During the two years under review two expeditions were made to 

 Australia for the purpose of discovering and importing into California 

 natural enemies of Entettix ienella (sugar-beet leaf-hopper) ; this 

 insect, owing to its connection with the curly-top disease of sugar-beet, 

 has in some seasons caused a loss of over £200,000 to the sugar 

 industry. A number of enemies of leaf-hoppers were imported into 

 California, but owing to the difference in climatic and other environ- 

 mental conditions, they failed to become established. 



The Government of Uruguay has been supplied with a colony of 

 an Agromyzid fly, Cryptochaetum (Lestophonvs), for use against the 



