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The Mally Fruit Fly Remedy. For the Prevention of Maggots in Fruit 

 by the Destruction of the Parent Flies before Eggs are laid. — 16th 

 Bicnn. Rept. Oregon State Bd. Hortic, Portland, 1921, pp. 109-113, 

 6 figs. [Received 1st June 1922.] 



The information contained in this paper has been noticed from 

 another source [R.A.E., A, iv, 392; ix, 98.] 



Fet-T (E. p.). European Corn Borer. — 16th Bienn. Rept. Oregon State 

 Bd. Hortic, Portland, 1921, pp. 113^114. [Received 1st June 1922.] 



The general situation with regard to the European corn borer, 

 Pyrausta nnhilalis, Hb., in various States is discussed. There are 

 hkely to be two generations of the moth in Oregon, at least in the 

 warmer maize-growing districts. Attention is called to the rigid 

 quarantine regulations that have been established in a number of States 

 with the object of restricting further spread of this pest. 



LovETT (A. L.). The Indian Meal Moth {Plodia interpunctella, Hb.). 

 — 16th Bienn. Rept. Oregon State Bd. Hortic., Portland, 1921, 

 pp. 118-123, 3 figs. [Received 1st June 1922.] 



Plodia interpunctella, Hb. (Indian meal moth) is the most generally 

 destructive pest of stored food products in the north-western United 

 States. Measures recommended against infestation are the frequent 

 cleaning out of storehouses, movement of stored packages and stirring 

 of exposed material, the use of insect-proof packages, such as cartons 

 with an inner sealed container of waxed paper, the repetition of 

 disinfection immediately before export, exposure to heat at 125° to 

 130° F. for one hour, fumigation with carbon bisulphide, the disin- 

 fection of empty warehouses by means of sulphur fumigation, and the 

 recent method of vacuum fumigation [R.A.E., A, viii, 241, 507]. 



LovETT (A. L.). Strawberry Pests. — 16th Bienn. Rept. Oregon State Bd. 

 Hortic, Portland, 1921, pp. 155-162, 2 figs. [Received 1st June 

 1922.] 



This paper is a revision of part of an earlier one [R.A.E., A, i, 131]. 

 The plan that has been found most successful against Otiorrhynchus 

 ovatiis, L. (strawberry root weevil), which is the most injurious straw- 

 berry pest in Oregon, is one that has also been adopted by Canadian 

 growers, namely, to grow strawberries only for one full-crop year 

 and then plough the field immediatel}/ after the harvesting of the 

 main crop. 



Less important pesis are the moths, Aristotelia abscondetella 

 (strawberry crown-miner) and Aegeria {Sesia) rutilans (strawberry 

 root- borer). 



Carpenter (P. H.) ct Andrews (E. A.). A Note on the Value of 

 different Insect Control Methods in Tea and against Mosquito 

 Blight in particular. — Indian Tea Assoc, Calcutta, 1922, 24 pp. 

 [Received 1st June 1922.] 



The numerous processes for insect suppression that have been 

 successively practised since the early days of economic entomology 

 are reviewed, and their value with regard to successful growing of tea 

 is discussed. Many difficulties stand in the way of the treatment of 

 tea bushes by any of the more usual methods, such as spraying or 



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