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The wattle bug and hopper is the most serious pest recorded on 

 wattle. Mylabris distincfa occurs on beans, Heliothis obsoleta, F., and 

 an undetermined stem borer on maize, while Macrosiphum granarium^ 

 Kirby, and Aphis africana, Theo., are the common Aphids on broom- 

 corn. 



Anderson (T. J.). Report of the Entomological Laboratory for the 

 Year ending 31st March 1915. — Ann. Rept. Dept. Agric. British 

 East Africa, 1914-1915, Nairobi, [n. d.], pp. 38-54. [Received 

 27th December 1916.] 



This report does not deal with individual crops but gives a useful 

 list of the insects of economic importance in the Protectorate, so far 

 as they are yet known, with their distribution and food-plants. 



Adams (J.). Report of the Agricultural Instructor for the Year 

 ending 31st March 1915.— Jnn. Rept. Dept. Agric. British East 

 Africa, 1911-1916, Nairobi, [n. d.], pp. 80-83. [Received 27th 

 December 1916.] 



The pests noticed during the year, were : — Aphids, Lepidosaphes 

 ulmi {MytiJa^Jsis pomorum) on apples, mildew on grapes and fruit-fly 

 in plums and peaches. 



JN, Lamb (P. H.). Plant Pests. — Rept. Agric. Dept. Northern Provinces, 

 Nigeria, for the Year 1915, Lagos, 1916, p. 13. 



The only serious insect pest encountered has been the mole-cricket, 

 Gryllotalpa africana, which feeds voraciously at night and, if unchecked, 

 will mthin a very short time completely devour whole beds of young 

 seedlings. It has been systematically dealt with by digging out or 

 flooding the burrows. These crickets are most troublesome during 

 the earlier part of the year, when succulent food is scarce. 



Johnson (W. H.). Entomology.— ^nw. Rept. Agric. Dept. Southern 

 Provinces, Nigeria, for the Year 1915, Lagos, 8th May 1916, p. 8. 



Coconuts, yams, and bananas have been attacked by Aspidiotus 

 destructor. The flowers of ground-nuts were injured by the Meloid 

 beetle, Decatoma ajffinis. Serious damage was avoided by collecting 

 the pest by hand. Cacao was frequently injured by the bark-sapper 

 bug, Sahlbergella theobroma, Dist. 



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McKiLLOP (H. T.) & GouGH (L. H.). Report on the Great Invasion of 

 Locusts in Egypt in 1915, and the Measures adopted to deal with it. 



—Ministry of Agriculture, Cairo, 1916, X -|- 72 pp., 7 appendices, 

 2 diagrams, 6 maps, 7 plates. 



This report contains a review of the recent invasions of locusts into 

 Egypt. Both in 1914 and 1915 the locusts came from the west and the 

 east and their arrival in the Nile Valley was dependent on weather 

 conditions. With regard to their destruction it was found that for 



