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verv little cultivation is practised. As breeding is continous through- 

 out the year and as bananas are grown for several years on the same 

 plot, all plants in an infe:;ted plot soon become ailected. The best 

 methods of controlling the pest are good cultivation and sanitary 

 measures, and the rearing of certain Histerid beetles that are 

 predaceous on it. Three swarms , of the locust, Cyrtacanthris 

 sepiemfasciala, Serv., var. fascifera, Wlk., were reported during the 

 year. 



Tinea pellionella (case-bearing clothes moth) has been recorded for 

 the first time in Uganda, destroying the felt on piano keys. 



ScHOLL (E. E.). Method of Procedure in Pink Bollworm Eradication 

 Work in Texas. — Jl. Econ. Enlom., Concord, N.H., xiii, no. 1, 

 February 1920, pp. 38-44, 1 map. [Received 13th April 1920.] 



This paper is an account of the Texas Pink Bollworm Act of 1919 

 as amended from the similar Act of 1917 [R.A.E., A, vi, 543]. Its aim 

 is firstly to prevent the introduction of the moth [Platyedra 

 gossypiella] from Mexico and secondly to eradicate outbreaks that 

 have become established in the State. 



The danger of importation is safeguarded by frontier safety zones 

 in which non-cotton zones can be made if need aris'r-s; this is sup- 

 plemented by fumigation of imported cotton. If an outbreak occurs 

 outside this safety zone, a non-cotton zone may be declared in which 

 all cotton is destroyed ; or, if the infestation is light, a regulated zone 

 under quarantine rules may be set up ; in any case provision is ma^e 

 for compensation of the growers for the loss involved. 



Felt (E. P.). The European Corn Borer Problem. — Jl. Econ. Entom., 

 Concord, N.H.. xiii. no. 1, February 1920, pp. 59-91. [Received 

 13th April 1920.] 



In this paper and the discussion that followed it the importance of 

 the European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis, was considered, and 

 suggestions made as to the grants that would be desirable to combat 

 it." 



The methods of control recommended are chiefly adaptations to 

 local conditions of methods already noticed [R.A.E., A., viii, pj). 97-99]. 



S\FRO (V. I.). The Work of the Railroad Entomologist. —J/. Econ. 

 En'om., Concord. N.H., xiii, no. 1, February 1920, pp. 112-117. 

 [Received 13th April 1920.] 



The benefits of railway agricultural departments suggest that there 

 is a great opening for the entomologist in the same direction. Greatly 

 increased tonnage would result from co-ordinated entomological work in 

 the districts served by railways, and examples of loss from the lack of 

 it show this over and over again. In addition to the direct profit, the 

 increased wealth of the population along railways would be an asset, 

 and more use of railways would be made. 



Railway economics are greatly affected by crop diversification. 

 Greater variety means less riik, better distribution of rolling stock and 

 labour. Crops that might be grown commercially are often neglected 



