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to legislation in the near future. Alabama airjiUucea (cotton worm 

 appeared in large numbers late in the season. Little is done by the 

 peasants to check the pest. Tlie "Jack Spaniard" wasp [Pofistes], 

 which is a valuable enemy ot the cotton worm, has not been seen 

 in Tortola since the cyclone of 191G. 



A large Longicom beetle, Batocera rubus,v:a,ii introduced into Tortola 

 about 1914, ])robably from the eastern tropics, and has attacked and 

 killed nearly all the native fig-trees. It will attack almost any plant 

 having a thick bark or possessing laticiferous vessels. Diaprepes 

 abbreviat'us was not quite as abundant as in some seasons ; this weevil 

 is a serious pest of citrus and bay trees and also attacks many useful 

 and ornamental plants, including cassava and Andira inermis. A 

 bird, Tyranniis dominicensis, feeds on the adults to some extent. The 

 sweet potato caterpillar, Protoparce cingulata, was abundant late in 

 the year in several districts ; few measures are taken against this 

 pest, though domestic fowls eat numbers of the larvae. 



Ross (W. A.). Aphids injurious to Fruit Trees in Ontario. — Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Assoc, 50th Ann. Rept. 1918, Toronto, 1919, 

 pp. 19-20. 



A brief and popular account is given of the chief injurious Aphids 

 in Ontario including the green apple aphis [Aphis pomi], rosy apple 

 aphis [A. sorbi^, oat aphis [Siphonaphis padi], woolly aphis [Eriosoma 

 lanigerum], black cherry aphis [Myz^(s cerasi] and the mealy plum 

 aphis [Hyalopterus arundinis]. The life-histories of these species 

 are briefly described and the usual remedial measures for them are 

 discussed. 



Froggatt (W.W.) a new Species of Wax Scale (Ceroplastes murrayi) 

 from New Guinea. — Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Sydney, xliv, 

 part 2, no. 174, 2nd October 1919, pp. 439-440, 1 plate. 



Ceroplastes murrayi, sp. n. (wild mango wax scale), of which all 

 stages are described, has been found in abundance on branches of wild 

 mango in the forest of British New Guinea. 



Chimenti (E.). La Cochenille du Figuier en Calabre.— 5i/W. 



bimens. Off. Gouv. Gen. Alger., Paris, xxv, no. 10, 15th October 

 1919, p. 159. 



The fig scale [Lepidosaphes ficus] does con'^iderable damage in 

 Italy by sucking the sap of fig trees and secreting a sticky substance 

 that gives rise to a sooty fungus on the leaves, branches and flowers, 

 greatly inhibiting their development. The natural enemies of this 

 scale, which include predaceous Coleoptera, are not in themselves 

 sufficient to etlect control. A hme-sulphur mixture of 13 gals, of 

 water and 10 lb. of Cjuick lime, to which 20 lb. of sifted sulphur have 

 been added and the whole continually stirred and boiled for one 

 hour, is the best spray against the young larvae in May. This should 

 be diluted at the rate of 4 to 8 parts to 100 of water and applied in 

 the spring and summer at intervals of about a fortnight. 



