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The larvae remain 3 years underground causing great damage to 

 turf. Rooks and starlings are predaceous on them. Shaking infested 

 plants in dull weather where possible, when the beetles will readily 

 drop, and spraying with lead arsenate are suggested as remedial 

 measures. 



Arrow (G, J.). Systematic Notes on a few Meiolonthine Coleoptera. 



— Annals Mag. Nat. Hist., London, iv. no. 19, July 1919, pp. 

 21-29, 1 plate. 



These notes include descriptions of Rhizotrogus gravis, sp. n., of 

 which larvae were found feeding at the roots of sugar-cane in 

 Mauritius, and R. rvfus, sp. n., from the Nilgiri Hills, India, in 

 plantations of cinchona seedhngs. 



Ballou (H. a.). The Cotton Woim.—Agric. News, Barbados, xviii, 

 no. 446, 31st May 1919, pp. 170-171. 



In consequence of severe attacks of Alabama argillacea (cotton 

 worm) in Nevis during the cotton-growing season of 1918, an entomo- 

 logist visited that Island from the Imperial Department of Agriculture. 

 There was an impression that this moth lives over from one season 

 to another and could be dealt with like the cotton stainer [Dysdercus]. 

 It is evident, however, that fresh invasions occur each year from 

 sources outside the Islands, and it has therefore been decided that 

 every effort should be made to induce all growers to provide sufficient 

 insecticides at the beginning of the cotton-growing season and that 

 some method should be devised to compel the application of those 

 measures of control that have been found effective elsewhere in the 

 West Indies. 



Ceouzat (L.). La Pyrale. Sa Destruction. [The Destruction of 

 Sjxirganothis pilleriana.] — Rev. Viticulture, Paris, xlix, no. 1261, 

 29th August 1918, pp. 131-133. [Received 3rd July 1919.] 



The life-history of SparganotJds jnlleriana on vines in France is 

 summarised and the treatments necessary for its control are reviewed. 

 These include winter treatments with hot water, fumigation with 

 sulphur under a bell-jar of zinc, iron sheeting or tinplates, arsenical 

 sprays and scraping of the bark. The soil about the vines should 

 be well worked in winter to destroy the young larvae that shelter 

 there. Just before blossoming, any leaves that will touch the grapes 

 should be removed, as these afford shelter to the insects before they 

 attack the fruit. In the spring, arsenical sprays should be applied 

 when the larvae ascend the vines and before they have folded over 

 the leaves and taken shelter in them. Heavy dustings with lime 

 have also proved beneficial at this time. 



Vayssiere (P.). Ravages causes par le Labidostomis hordei, F. (Col. 

 Chrysomelidae) dans un Vignoble du Maroc. [Damage done by 

 Labidostomis hordei, F., in a Moroccan Vineyard.] — Bull. Soc. 

 Entom. France, Paris, 1919, no. 10, 28th May 1919, pp. 190-191. 



On examining a two-year old vineyard in Morocco in April 1919, 

 it was found that the new shoots of the native vines were all damaged 



