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done. The Hispid beetle, Bronthispa longissima, Gestro, and MelUs- 

 soblaptes riifovenalis occurred in Celebes. 



Coffee pests included the scales, Pseudococcus virgatus and Coccus 

 (Lecanium) viridis, Limacodid caterpillars, Stephanoderes hampei^ 

 Zeuzera cqffeae, Araeeerus fasciculatus , and Xylehorus coffeae. 



Maize was infested by many caterpillars, including those of Marasmia^ 

 CirpJiis and Heliothis obsoleia (armigera). Infestation by the last- 

 named moth was reduced by the advent of the rains. 



Oil palms suffered some injury from Psychid and Limacodid cater- 

 pillars. The pepper bug, Elasmognaihus hewitti, increased as compared 

 with the previous year. 



Rice pests included Nymplnda depunctalis, Schoenobius incertellus 

 (bipimctifer), Scirpopliaga sericea, Sesamia sp., Cirphis {Leucania) 

 unipuncta, S-podoptera mauriiia and Tetraneura oryzae. 



Aleurodes bergi, A. longicornis, Oregma lanigera and Chionaspis 

 tegalensis occurred on sugar-cane, but did no very serious damage. 



Tobacco was infested by the caterpillars of Heliothis {Chloridea), 

 Prodenia and Phfhorimaea {Gnorimoschema) heliopa. The beetles, 

 Gonocephalum and Eutochia (Holaniara), occurred again, but not 

 seriously. The pests of stored tobacco, Lasioderma [serricorne] and the 

 tobacco moth [Setomorpha margcdae striata], caused little loss, as a large 

 portion of the tobacco stored in the Dutch East Indies was exported, 

 and the remainder was easily disinfected with carbon bisulphide. 



Tea pests included Helopeltis, Zeuzera cqffeae, Xylehorus fornicatus. 

 Stauropvs alternus, a Bombycid caterpillar, various Limacodid cater- 

 pillars including Setora nitens and Thosea cervina, the bugs, Hyalo- 

 pepliis smaragdinns and Poecilocoris hardwicH, and the mites, Erio- 

 pliyes {Phytoptus) carinatus, E. (P.) theae and Brevipalpus obovatus. 



DammePvMAN (K. W.). Rapport over Planten-quarantaine in Japan, 

 Hawaii en de Vereenigde Staten. — Meded. Inst. PlantenzieUen, 

 Buitenzorg, no. 40, 1920, 37 pp. 



A brief report is given on the plant quarantines in force in Japan, 

 Hawaii and United States, including the Hawaiian order for fruit 

 and plant inspection. Appendix I gives (in Dutch) the Japanese Law 

 no. 11 of 25th March 1914 with the regulations pertaining to it. 

 Appendix II gives the U.S. Plant Quarantine Act, 20th August 1912, as 

 amended 4th March 1913 and 4th March 1917, together with the 

 rules and regulations issued under it. 



Johnson (W. F.). Necrobia rufijjes in Belfast. — Irish Naturalist, 

 Dublin, xxix, no. 3, March 1920, p. 25. 

 Attention is drawn to an infestation of dried figs by Necrobia rufipes, 

 DeG., in Belfast. 



Lyle (G. T.). Contributions to our Knowledge of the British Bra- 

 conidae. No. 4, Rhogadidae and No. 5, Sigalphidae. — Entofnolo- 

 gist, London, hi, nos. 673-G75 & hii, no. 682, June, July & 

 August 1919 & March 1920, pp. 134-136, 149-155, 178-181,. 

 56-60. 

 In this paper, which is a continuation of one previously noticed 



[R.A.E., A, vi, 381] the species dealt with include : Rhogas grandis,. 



