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two weeks. Cutting the lucerne while green, two or three times during 

 the season, and using it as fodder, will have the same result. The dust 

 mulch may be used with advantage where the weevils have not been 

 destroyed earlier in the year. This is best done after the first crop has 

 been cut, when the ground is dry and the weather warm and bright. 

 The chief objection to this method is that it requires time and 

 labour at the busiest period of the year. Summer spraying after the 

 first crop has been harvested has been found effective, the mixture 

 used being Paris green or arsenate of lead in the proportion of 1 pound 

 and 6 pounds, respectively, to 100 U.S. gallons of water. Puddling 

 is not recommended, being harmful to the soil. To prevent the 

 spread of this pest to new ground care should be taken to avoid 

 sending either new lucerne, or articles which have come in contact with 

 it, out of the infested district. 



Ehrhorn (E. M.). Report of the Division of Plant Inspection.— 



Hawaiian Forester & Agriculturist, Honolulu, xiii, no. 8, August 

 1916, pp. 299-301. [Received 27th October 1916.] 



Among the pests intercepted in July 1916 were Pseudococcus brotneliae 

 on pine-apple from Queensland, Aspidiotus cyanophylli on orchids from 

 New Jersey, Hemichionaspis aspidistrae and Saissetia hemisphaerica 

 on a fern from Ohio, and Bruchus pisorum in dried peas. 



FuLLAWAY (D. T.). Report of the Division of Entomology. — Hawaiian 

 Forester & Agriculturist, Honolulu, xiii, no. 8, August 1916, 

 pp. 302-303. [Received 27th October 1916.] 



During July 1916, 1,485 female and 674 male individuals of Opius 

 fietcheri, the new melon-fly parasite, were reared, and 1,718 were 

 liberated. 



FuLLAWAY (D. T.). Search for Melon Fly Parasites. — Hawaiian 

 Forester & Agricidturist, Honolulu, xiii, no. 8, August 1916, 

 pp. 303-306. [Received 27th October 1916.] 



In this report the author describes his search for parasites of the 

 melon fly [Dacus cucurbitae]. Singapore, Java, South India and 

 Manila were visited, and Opius fietcheri was secured in South India, 

 at Bangalore, and has been introduced into Hawaii [see above]. 



Destruction of Food-plants of the Cotton Stainer in St. Vincent. — Agric. 

 News, Barbados, xv, no. 376, 23rd September 1916, p. 319. 



In connection with the work of destroying food-plants of the cotton 

 stainers [Dysdercus delauneyi] in St. Vincent [see this Review, Ser. A, iv, 

 p. 470] a large number of silk cotton trees {Eriodendron anfractuosum) 

 and John BuU trees (Thespesia popidnea) have been destroyed. Up to 

 the present the greater part of the windward district has been cleared ; 

 work in the leeward district was begun in August. 



