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The Codlin Moth in Tasmania. — The following details 

 were communicated to me by my brother, the Rev. P. E. Raynor, 

 of Hobart, in a letter dated December 21st, 1887 — Midsummer 

 Day in that far-distant land. Tasmania was not settled by 

 Europeans till 1803. Therefore the Codlin Moth, as the Tas- 

 manians call Carjwcapsa j^omonana, will soon be celebrating the 

 centenary of its arrival in the colony, if we may presume that the 

 earliest colonists unwittingly introduced it with their apples. My 

 brother says : — " Last year, when we came to the colony at the 

 end of the season, we found all the apples on the ground bored by 

 larvae of C. pomonella ; so we had to buy some ^3 worth of apples 

 for the winter season, and this with forty apple-trees in the 

 garden. By bandaging we destroyed thousands of pupae, but the 

 moth is still very plentiful ; they are just now appearing in full 

 force, and the larva3 are boring the apples in all directions. The 

 old " Codlin Moth Act " was partial, and only certain districts 

 were declared infected. We are in Glenorchy, an infected 

 district, so we have an inspector round to see that we bandage 

 our trees; but the opposite side of the road is in Hobart (sup- 

 posed to be a non-infected district); consequently we are rather 

 handicapped in fighting the moth, as our opposite neighbours 

 breed it freely. However, the new Act, soon to come into 

 operation, is universal, and I hope that will help us. I visit 

 every tree, pick up and destroy hundreds of fallen apples under 

 each ; then bandage the tree ; then with a penknife cut out the 

 grubs, now just under the surface, on the growing apples (thus 

 hoping to save them for preserving, though not for keeping). 

 The imago I capture by the dozen flitting over the trees just at 

 dusk or in the early morning; they are very hard to catch, 

 having so zigzag a flight, and soon darting into the trees; a good 

 many can be caught with finger and thumb, as they sit on the 

 fruit in the daytime laying their eggs. I have also sugared two 

 nights running, but the nights have been too bright and moon- 

 light to do much good ; I only got five and three moths respec- 

 tively. They know very little about the moth and its habits 

 here ; all sorts of absurd ideas are circulated and printed ; so I am 

 studying the moth in order to gain personal experience which 

 may be of public value. The inspector called the other day ; he 

 is an intelligent man, and has studied the moth a little; he was 

 astounded when I told him I had caught thirty-seven moths the 



