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make up a total of 135 gallons. This proportion proved very effective 

 against Hyponomeuta malinellus, Cheimatohia brumala, various species 

 of ToRTRiciDAE, Ci/dia fomonella, Euproclis chrysorrhoea, Malacosoma 

 neustria, Aporia crataegi and Ly»i(intria dispar. It did not cause 

 scorching of the foliage of either old or young trees, and no further 

 sprayings were necessary. 



Froggatt (W. W.). Australasian Hispidae of the Genera Bronthispa 

 and Promecotheca which destroy Coconut Palm Fronds. — Bull. 

 Entom. Research, London, v, pt. 2, September 1911, pp. 149-152. 



The following species of Hispidae are causing serious damage in 

 the coconut plantations of Australasia : Fromecolheca opacicollis, Gest., 

 the New Hebrides Coconut Hispid, first recorded in the north islands 

 about 1905, was a plague in all the islands in 1911. The damage done 

 is two-fold, the adults gnawing long parallel furrows down the centre 

 of the fronds, and the larvae mining in them and forming brown blisters 

 up to 6 inches long and | inch Avide. The fronds die back, in con- 

 sequence, to their junction with the trunk, causing the nuts to fall 

 while still immature. P. coeruleipennis, Blanch., the Fiji Coconut 

 Hispid, which is restricted to Fiji, and is abundant in March and April, 

 but is heavily parasitised in the egg, larval and pupal stages, does 

 similar damage. Other species are : — P. antiqua, Weise, the Solomon 

 Islands Coconut Hispid, previously recorded from New Britain and 

 German New Guinea ; P. callosa, Baly, the Queensland Coconut 

 Hispid, also found in N. Australia ; P. varipes, Baly, the Port Darwnn 

 Coconut Hispid, found on the foliage of Pandanus. P. hiroi and P. 

 papuana have been described from German New Guinea, but have 

 not been recorded as coconut pests. Bronthispa froggatti, Sharp, the 

 Leaf-bud Hispid, the larvae of which feed with the adults on the 

 epidermis of the opening leaf-buds, was originally recorded from 

 New Britain, later from the Solomon Islands, and in 1913 from the 

 New Hebrides. The former control method of spraying with tobacco 

 and soap wash is now replaced by the cutting off and burning of 

 the tips of infested fronds. 



Bezzi (M.). Two New Species of Fruit-Flies from S. India.— BulL 



Entom. Research, London, v, pt. 2, September 1914, pp. 153-154, 



The following new fruit-flies are described from S. India : Bactrocera 

 (Chaetodacus) hipustulata, sp. n., from Mysore, and Monacrostichus 

 crabroniformis, sp. n., from the Shevaroy Hills ; while two African 

 species are recorded from India for the first time : Leptoxyda longistyla, 

 Wied., from Coimbatore, on Calotyopis procera, and Dacus brevistylus, 

 Bezzi, from Siddhout, Cuddappale, on melon. 



QuELCH (J. J.). Report on the Control of the Small Moth Borers, 

 Diatraea saccharaUs and Diatraea canelhi, with some General Notes. 

 Demerara : Argosy Co., September 1914, 15 pp. 



Investigations as to the possibility of an effective control of D. 

 saccharalis and D. canella are described, together with lists of the 



