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lime and iron sulphate ; digging the soil underneath the trees ; and 

 spraying with iron sulphate (1 lb. in about 2| gallons of water, to 

 which from 1 to 2 lb. of lime may be added). With regard to pests of 

 grain crops, ploughing trenches round infested patches and the scatter- 

 ing of large leaves over spots attacked by the caterpillars of Euxoa 

 segetum, in order to facilitate handpicking, is suggested. Deep 

 ploughing and the destruction of weeds in or near fields attacked 

 by Oria musculosa are strongly advised. 



AvERiN (V. G.). CstfltHifl noflBneHiw m AtflTejibHocTH BpeflHbix"b 



HaciKOHblXTj 3a ilOHb — ceHTfl6pb. [Information as to the appear- 

 ance and activity of injurious insects during June — September.] 

 — «5K)nneTeHb o BpeflMTennxii CejibCKaro XosflHCToa m MtpaxTs 

 6opb6bl CTj HMM11.» — [Bulletin on Pests of Agriculture and Methods 

 of fighting thetn.] Charkov, no. 5, October 1914, pp. 21-22. 



The following pests were reported during the period from June to 

 September from various parts of Charkov. Various larvae, especially 

 those of the beetle Baris chloris, F., have done considerable damage to 

 transplanted cabbages. Anisoplia austriaca, Herbst, has appeared 

 in large numbers damaging winter and summer-sown wheat, also 

 winter-sown rye. An outbreak of this pest may be expected next year. 

 LeTTia mekmopa, L., has injured oats, barley and winter-sown wheat 

 in one district. Cabbages, beetroots, and summer-sown wheat were 

 attacked in different places by Agriotes sp., while beetroots have also 

 suffered consideiably from Bothynoderes (Cleonus) "punctiventris, Germ., 

 in some districts and from Cassida nebulom, L., in another. Outbreaks 

 of Melolontha hippocastani, F., occurred in several parts and more 

 or less damage was done both by imagines and larvae. Byturus 

 tomentosus, F., was reported from one district. In the western parts 

 of the government, outbreaks of Plutella maculipennis, Crt., {cruci- 

 ferarum, Zell.) were observed. Phlyctaenodes (Eurycreon) sticticalis, 

 L., appeared locally and only in small numbers, except in one district, 

 where it was necessary to spray against it. Winter- sown crops were 

 damaged in some districts by Euxoa segetum, Schiff., and rape and 

 mustard by Athalia spinarum, F. In one forest the second generation 

 of the larvae of Lophyrus pini, L., were injurious. The report mentions 

 also Lyonetia clerkella, as having mined nearly all the leaves of cherry- 

 tiees in one orchard ; the Carabid beetle, Harpalus calceatus, L., 

 was swarming round street lamps in June, and a large swarm of Locusta 

 {Pachytylus) migratoria, L., was observed at 10 p.m. on 22nd July. 



06jiacTHoe 3HTOMonorHMecKoe CoetmaHie 20-21 ceHTnOpn btj r. 



XapbKOBt. [The (Provincial) Entomological Conference on 20-21 

 September (2-3 October) in Charkov.]— « BronneieHb BpeflMie- 

 nflx-b CenbCKaro XosnHCTBa h Mtpax-b 6opb6bi cy hmmh.» 



[Bulletin on Pests of Agriculture and Methods of fighting them.] 

 Charkov, no. 5, October 1914, pp. 30-32. 



At a Conference convened by the Zemstvo of Charkov, the expenses 

 of which were defrayed by the Department of Agricultura, nearly all 

 parts of Russia were represented. Various questions connected with 

 control measures in 1915 were discussed and the possibihty of lack of 



