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tips and the ringed canes should be cut out and burned, and old canea 

 should be cut and destroyed immediately after harvest. 



Minor pests of raspberry canes include leaf and cane miners, flea- 

 beetles, twelve-spotted cucumber heet\e\ Diahroticaduodecimpunctata], 

 tarnished plant bug [Lygus pratensis], leaf-hoppers, and oyster-shell 

 scale [Lepidosaphes ulmi]. 



Banks (C. S.). Two Philippine Leaf-mining Buprestids, one being 

 New. — Philippme Jl. Science Manila, xv, no. 3, September 1919, 

 pp. 289-300, 3 plates. [Received 24th March 1920.] 



A description is given of all the stages of Endelus bakeri, Kerrem., 

 feeding on bird's-nest fern {Asplcnium nidus, L.). The larva is para- 

 sitised by at least one Chalcid, and may be destroyed by squeezing 

 it in its mine in the leaf. 



Endelus calligraphus, sp. n., here described, was bred from larvae 

 mining in a fern that is perhaps a variety of A. nidus. 



Lathrop (F. H.). The Cicadellidae or Leaf-Hoppers of South Caro- 

 lina. — S. C. Agric. Exp. Sta., Clemson College, S. C. Bull. 199, 

 June 1919, 119 pp., 44 figs. [Received 25th March 1920.] 



This paper is almost entirely systematic in scope. Keys are given 

 to the sub-families of Cicadellidae, and to genera and species that 

 occur in South Carolina. 



Jarvis (E.). Some Lepidopterous Pests New to Sugar Cane in Queens- 

 land. — Queensland Bur. Sugar Expt. Sta. Div. Entom.. Brisbane, 

 Bull. 9, 1920, 16 pp., 1 plate. 



This paper is intended as an ampHfication of one already noticed 

 {R.A.E., A, iv, 344]. The species dealt with include the Noctuids, 

 Cirphis loreyi, Dup., the larva of which causes similar injury to the 

 fohage of sugar-cane as does C. unipuncta. Haw. : Mods rugalis, 

 F. ; Melanitis leda, L. ; Padraona hypomcfoma, Lower ; Anthela acuta 

 Wlk. ; and Achaea, Janata {Ophiusa melicerta, Drury), which is also 

 destructive to castor-oil plants (Ricinus communis). 



SpEYER (E. R.). The Distribution of Xyleborus formcatus. Eich. 

 (Shot-hole Borer of Tea). — Ceylon Dept. Agric, Peradeniya, Bull. 

 39, August 1918, 34 pp. [Received 27th March 1920.] 



The history of Xyleborus fornicatus, Eich. (shot-hole borer of tea) 

 in Ceylon is reviewed and its distribution outside Ceylon described. 

 It has been recorded from castor-oil plants in India (Bangalore) and 

 from nutmeg in Penang, though the latter is open to doubt. This 

 borer is found most abundantly at about 2,000 feet above sea-level, 

 and seems to spread gradually upwards, attaining an altitude of 

 5,000 feet, but it becomes less numerous when 4,000 feet is reached, 

 and above 4,500 is no longer a serious pest. Above 4,000 feet develop- 

 ment is longer by some three weeks. 



A list of estates infested up to 7th June 1918 is appended. 



