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Pests of market-gardens include : — Lethrus apleru^, Laxm., injuring 

 sunflower seedlings ; Baris sp., injurious to cabbage ; Meloloniha 

 meloloniha, L. ; Chortophila (Anthomyia) brassicae, Boucbe ; Gryllo- 

 (alpa grj/llotalpa in many districts destroyed whole fields of cabbage ; 

 Aphis brassicae, L. ; Plutella niaculipennis, Cart, {cricciferarum, Z.). 



Pests of field crops : — Sitones sp., injurious to vetches and lucerne ; 

 Lema mdanopa, Pall., was specially harmful to barley and oats ; 

 Anisoplia austriaca, Herbst, has increased of late years ; Bothifnoderes 

 (Cleonus) punctiventris, Germ., was formerly injurious in the western 

 districts, but in recent years it has practically disappeared there and 

 has now spread to the East and done considerable damage. Agrwtes 

 larvae and Cassidanebulosa, L., have done great damage to beet planta- 

 tions. Phlyctaenodcs {Eiirycreon) sticiicalis, L., as was expected, was 

 not numerous in 1914, although in the district of Voltchansk, which 

 suffered little in 1913, the caterpillars have considerably injured beet 

 crops ; it is not expected that an outbreak will occur this year. Euxocu 

 (Agrotis) segetmn, Schiff., has become a serious peat during the last 

 two years and is expected to be so this year. Oria, [Tapinoslola) 

 muscnlosa, Hiibn., is again expected to be troublesome. Athalia 

 spinarym, L., was noticed on rape and mustard. 



Pests of trees and shrubs included : — Lithocolletis populifoliella. Fr., 

 which appeared in smaller numbers than in 1913; Emphytus 

 rvfocinctus damaged leaves of rose bushes near Charkov, the shoots 

 being also injured by the larvae of Ardis (Sehndria) bipunctata ; 

 Hylotoma rosarum was noticed in the district of Sumv, where roses 

 have also suffered greatly from a large outbreak of Aulacaspis 

 [Diaspis] rosae. Lophyrus pini, L., denuded many acres of pines in 

 the districts of Achtyr and Izium. 



Watkrston (J.). New Species of Chalcidoidea from Ceylon.— j^niL 



Entom. Research, London, v, pt. 4, March 1915, pp. 325-342, G figs. 



The new Chalcidoidea described in this paper were obtained at 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon, by the late Mr. A. Rutherford, the Governmont 

 Entomologist, and were forwarded by him to the Imperial Bureau of 

 Entomology for identification. The following new species are 

 described :—Polycyslus propinquus and Trigonogaslra rugosa, from the 

 bean fly, Agromyza phaseoli, Coq.; T. megacephala, from a jak fruit 

 which had been attacked by an undetermined insect ; Closteroccrus 

 insignis, from the tea fly, Oscinis theae ; Sympiesis purpureu^, from 

 Acrocercops ordinatdla, Meyr.. a leaf-miner of camphor ; Syntomo- 

 sphyrum taprobanes from a Coccinellid, Scymnus sp. ; Tetrastich odes 

 asthenogmus, taken on the egg-capsule of a cockroach. 



Waterston (J.). Notes on African Chalcidoidea. II. — Bull. Enloyn. 

 Research, London, v. pt. 4, March 1915, pp. 343-372, 17 figs. 



The characters of the genus Pleurotrojris are discussed, and it is 

 suggested that these insect-s are all hyperparasites, and therefore 

 probably harmful. A key to the African species is given and the 

 following new ones described : — Pleurotropis neavei, from the pupa 

 of a species of Charaxes, Nyasaland ; P. neavei, var., from cocoons 



