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Control of Peach Aphis. — Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., Sydney, xxvii, no. 11, 



November 1916. p. 778. 



A simple and effective method of controlling the peach aphis is to 

 wind a strip of sacking about two feet wide two or three times round the 

 trunk of the tree from the ground-level upwards. A strip of flannel 

 6 or 9 inches wide saturated with equal parts of Stockholm tar and 

 kerosene is then tied round the middle of the sacking. This should be 

 done as soon as the flower buds begin to open, and the bandages should 

 be left on till the leaves are well out and the fruit has set and grown to a 

 fair size. The mixture must be renewed on the flannel once a week 

 and must not touch the roots or bark of the tree. Experiments have 

 however proved that this Aphid, besides wintering in the ground, 

 leaves winter eggs under the bark or in the eyes on the upper part of 

 the tree, so that this method is not entirely effective. 



A Natural Enemy of the Lantana. — Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., Sydney, xxvii 

 part 11, November 1916, p. 798. 



Though the Agromyzid, known as the " lantana seed fly " has been 

 introduced into Hawaii and has to a large extent prevented the spread 

 of the weed, it has not been considered advisable to accede to various 

 requests to introduce it into the North Coast of New South Wales, as 

 the probability is that a fly that attacks lantana berries might also 

 infest mam^ of the common plants of Australia. 



FfiOGGATT (W. W.). A Descriptive Catalogue of the Scale Insects 

 (" Coccidae ") of Australia. — Agric. Gaz. N.S.W., Sydney, xxvii, 

 no. 11, November 1916, pp. 809-816, 1 plate, 3 figs. 



The following species are described : — Pseudoripersia turgipes, Msk., 

 on Casuarina suberosa ; Erium frenellae, sp. n., on the desert Cyprus, 

 Frenella robusta ; E. globosiim, Msk., on Acacia armata ; Erium 

 neivmani, sp. n., on an undetermined species of GreviUea ; Pseudococcus 

 {Dactylopius) acaciae, Msk., on Acacia linearis and Albizzia lophantha ; 

 P. (D.) affinis, Msk., on the roots of dahlias and potatoes ; P. {D.) 

 albizziae, Msk., on Albizzia lophantha and several species of Acacia ; 

 P. (D.) aurilanatus, Msk., on Araucaria bidwiUi and A. excelsa ; P. (D.) 

 australiensis, Gr. and Lidg., on Acacia dealbata ; and P. (D.) bromeliae, 

 Bch., on pineapple, mulberry, canna and hibiscus. 



deBergevin (E.). Liste de quelques Hemipteres recueillis au Maroc. 



[List of some Hemiptera collected in M.ovocco.\— Bull. Soc. Hist. 

 Nat. Afrique Nord, Algiers, vii, no. 8, 15th November 1916, 

 pp. 303-315. 



This is a list giving the distribution of 122 species of Rhynchota 

 in Morocco, without any particulars as to their economic importance. 



Trinchieri (G.). La Lutte centre les Saute relies dans les divers Pays. 



[Locust Control in different Countries. ]^ — Inst. Internal. Agric, 

 Bureau des Renseigneynents Agricoles et des Maladies des Plantes, 

 Rome, 1916, xvi + 186 pp. 



In the preface to this work, Dr. J. M. Saulnier, describes the circum- 

 stances which led to the compilation of this report by M. Trinchieri, 



