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the remains of other moths, beetles and flies. Of the total food 

 examined, 88 per cent, consisted of noxious insects and 12 per cent, 

 of insects of a neutral character. The importance of affording every 

 protection to this bird is therefore obvious. 



Flower (S. S.) & Nicoll (M. J.). The Principal Species of Birds 

 protected by Law in Egypt, giving their English, French, Arabic 

 and Scientific Names, their Local Status, their approximate Size, 

 and Concise Notes on their Coloration, for Purposes of Identifica- 

 tion. — Minist. Agric. Egypt, Cairo, June 1918, 8 pp., 8 plates, 

 [Received 28th January 'l920.] 



In Egypt, where ravages by insect pests are common and birds 

 are scarce, it is of the greatest importance that beneficial species 

 should be afforded every protection. While the law of 1912 expressly 

 forbids the destruction of the protected species, and at least one 

 valuable species has become re-estabUshed in consequence, it is 

 considered that in the case of some of the smaller birds it is not being 

 enforced with sufficient stringency. 



Carpenter (C. W.) Report of the Division of Plant Pathology.— 



Rept. Hawaii Agric. Expl. Sla. 1918, Honolulu, 10th April 1919, 

 pp. 35-45, 4 plates. [Received 28th January 1920.] 



Pests not previously recorded for Hawaii include root knot of 

 carrots, egg-plants {Solamim melongena) and tobacco due to Nematodes, 

 galls on potatoes {Solatium tuberosum) due to Nematodes, and a mite 

 attacking potatoes and tomatoes [Lycopersicum esculentum). The 

 remedial measures advocated against the latter include early planting 

 and dusting with dry sulphur or spraying with hme-sulphur. 



Other pests include : red spider on bananas {Musa cavendishi) ; 

 Hellula andalis (web worm) and Pier is {Pontia) rapae (cabbage cater- 

 pillar) on cabbages ; Peregrimis maid is (leaf-hopper) on maize {Zea 

 mays); red spider causing russeting on gaava {Psidium, guayava) ; 

 thrips on onion {Allium cepa) ; and Phthorimaea operculella (potato 

 tuber moth). 



LEGISLATION. 



Insect Pests in Sicily and Sardinia. — R. Staz. Speriment. Ayr am. 

 Fruttic, Acireale, Boll. 37, 1919, pp. 7-10. 



A decree, dated 28th September 1919, of the Italian Ministry of 

 Agriculture prohibits the importation into Sicily and Sardinia of 

 citrus and other food-plants of the scale, Ceroplasfes sinensis. Such 

 plants may only be admitted by special permission of the Ministry if 

 certified clean by an official plant disease expert. 



A decree, dated 7th October 1919, makes it compulsory to combat 

 the pistachio pest, Megastigmus {Trogoearpus) ballestrerii, in various 

 districts of Sicily. The female flowers of Pistacia terebinthus and all 

 infested pistachio fruits must be destroyed [R.A.E., A, vii, 88]. 



