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Haltica erucae, the oak flea-beetle, defoliated climbing roses in a 

 garden surrounded by tall trees, including oaks, and also slightly infested 

 strawberries. Otiorrhynchus picipes severel}^ attacked apple graftings 

 in one locality, and serious injury to pear foliage by Psylla pyri was 

 recorded. Peach leaf-rolling caterpillars that had done much harm 

 proved to be those of Tortrix {Cacoecia) rosana. 



A bug, Halticiis saltator, did considerable injury to cucumbers, and 

 two mites, Tetr any chus sp. and a species of Tarsonemus near T. kirchneri, 

 Kram., injured the leaves of heliotrope. Two thrips new to Holland — 

 apparently Taeniothrips orchidii, Moult., and Scirtothrips longipennis, 

 Bagn. — occurred on Amarantiis in a hot-house. The caterpillars of 

 Gracilaria zachrysa (azaleella) almost completely defoliated a number of 

 plants of Azalea indica. 



Da Costa Lima ( — ). Sobre o Scolyto Destruidor dos Cafesaes. [On the 



Scolytid Destro3'er of Coffee Plantations."^ — CJiacaras e Quintaes, 

 S. Paulo, xxvi, no. 1, 15th July 1922, pp. 34-35. 



In view of the ravages abroad of the coffee-berry borer, Stephanoderes 

 hampei, Ferr., the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture on the 14th 

 January 1922 prohibited the importation of coffee seed into Brazil. 



Brethes (J.). Himenopteros y Dipteros de varias Procedencias. 



[Hymenoptera and Diptera from various Sources.] — Reprint, 

 30 pp., dated 1922, from Anales Soc. Cientifica Argentina, xciii, 

 pp. 119 et sqq. 



The new species described include a Cecidomyiid, Neurolasioptera 

 baezi, gen. n., producing galls on the stems and terminal shoots of 

 Teucrimn inflatum. 



Among the H5Tnenoptera are a Proctotrupid, Synopeas neuro- 

 lasiopterae, parasitising Neurolasioptera baezi ; the Chalcids, Eude- 

 catoma paranensis, also a parasite of N. baezi, Pseudooderella catamar- 

 censis, gen. n., parasitising a Syrphid pupa on Opuntia sulphiirea, 

 Cerapterocerus bonariensis, parasitising Ceroplastes bergi, Ckll., and 

 Prodecatoma parodii, producing galls on the branches of Prosopis alba ; 

 an Ichneumonid, Balcarcia bergi, gen. n., parasitising Oeceticus geyeri, 

 Berg ; and the Braconids, Apanteles ditplicatus and Catolestes argen- 

 tinus, gen. n., both parasites of Prodecatoma parodii, and Apanteles 

 alexanderi, parasitising a Lepidopteron attacking Opuntia sp. 



Spinosa (J. P.). Apuntes sobre el Cultivo del Naranjo referidos espeeial- 

 mente al Territorio Naeional de Misiones. [Notes on Orange 

 Cultivation with special Reference to the Misiones Territory, 

 Argentina.] — Bol. Minist. Agric. Nac., Buenos Aires, xxvii, 

 no. 1, January-March 1922, pp. 3-185, 31 figs. [Received 9th 

 August 1922.] 



Insect pests of the orange in the Misiones Territory include the scales, 

 Coccus {Lecanium) hesperidum, L., Lepidosaphes beckii, Newm. {Myti- 

 laspis citricola, Pack.), and Chrysomphalus aonidum, L., against which 

 spraying with kerosene-soap emulsion is advised ; Aphids, for which a 

 tobacco soap is recommended ; ants, which are highly destructive and 

 against which fumigation with carbon bisulphide or with a mixture 

 of two parts sulphur and one naphthaline or flooding with poisons or 



