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In some parts coconuts were also attacked by bag- worms, Thyrido'pteryx 

 ephemeraeformis* which were also kept under by parasitic insects. 

 Brachartona catoxantha caused some damage in Krian. Successful 

 control measures have been carried out against the locust [see this 

 Review Ser. A, ii, pp. 479, 565, 606], which has so far only been 

 identified as a species of Locusta (Pachytylus). 



EwiNG (H. E.). The Geographical Distribution of Our Common Red 

 Spider, Teiranychus teluriiis, Linn. — Jl. Entom. cfe Zool., Claremont, 

 Cal., vi, no. 3, September 1914, pp. 121-132, 1 fig. 



The common red spider, Teiranychus telarius, L., is nearly world-wide 

 in its distribution. In Europe, where it has been longest known, 

 it is a serious pest, and is generally distributed, except in the northern 

 part of Russia and in the Scandinavian Peninsula. In North America 

 it is found from Ontario to Texas and from British Columbia to 

 Southern California. It also is known from South America, Hawaii, 

 South Africa and Australia. There appear to be no records of the 

 mite occurring in India or in the Philippines. 



The chief factors affecting the distribution of T. telarius, L., are 

 those of climate and of host plants. Wherever the mean daily tem- 

 perature falls below about 50° F. this mite will not reproduce, 

 but sometimes under these circumstances it hibernates. Unless there 

 is a summer mean considerably above 50° F., this species is 

 not hkely to be present. T. telarius has been reported up to elevations 

 of from 7,000 to 8,000 feet. In the hottest part of the summer in 

 Southern Cahfornia it is said not to thrive so well as in lower tem- 

 peratures, nor as well in a wet chmate as in a dry one. Yet neither 

 an excessively wet nor an excessively dry climate will prohibit its 

 development. The presence or absence of favourite host plants 

 influences distribution, and, being specially adapted to greenhouse 

 plants, it is found wherever plants are grown under glass with the 

 aid of artificial heat. 



King (G. B.). The eleventh Kermes (Coccidae) from California. — Jl. 

 Entom. i&Zool., Claremont, Cal.,m, no. 3, September, 1914, p. 133, 



Ifig. 



Kermes mirahilis, sp. n., found on Querciis sp., at Mountain View, 

 Cahfornia, is described. It is alUed to Kermes galliformis, etc. 



P. S. XpoHMKa [Chronicles]. — « TypHeciaHCKoe CejibCKoe Xo3flMCTBO.» 



[Agriculture of Turkestan], Tashkent, September 1914, no. 9, 

 pp. 855 & 858. 



Experiments with the American system of high pressure spraying 

 against Cydia jwmonella were conducted in 1913 by the Entomological 

 Station of Turkestan, full results of which will be shortly pubhshed. 

 They have proved the majiy advantages of djipsin over Paris green ; 

 there was no scorching, lime was not required, and the material did 

 not settle at the bottom of the sprayer or container. An Aphid which 

 attacked varieties of willow in Tashkent has been identified by Plot- 

 nikov as Lachnus viminalis. 



* [There has probably been an error in the identification of this Psychid 

 moth, for the species mentioned is confined to North America. — Ed.] 



