among cultivated plants, its food is confined to different varieties of 

 pear. There is only one generation in each year. The adults appear 

 in March and April, the females greatly predominating. Eggs are 

 inserted into the leaf, and the larva on hatching apparently emerges 

 through the incision in the leaf made by the adult in depositing the 

 egg. When fully grown, the larva drops to the ground, and buries 

 itself in the soil, seldom burrowing to a depth of more than one inch. 

 Here it weaves a tough brown cocoon, remaining in the ground about 

 10 months, the last two or three weeks being passed in the pupal stage. 

 The injury is caused entirely by the larva, and occurs on the foliage, 

 but it is only in severe attacks, when the trees are defoliated, that 

 it is of economic importance. The best control is a poison spray of 

 4 lb. lead arsenate to 100 U.S. gals, of water, and a contact spray of 

 fish-oil soap, 4 lb., water, 100 U.S. gals., nicotine sulphate (40 per cent.) 

 1 to 1,200, applied when the larvae are about half grown. 



HoLLiNGER (A. H.). The Shell-bark Hickory Mealy-bug.— Cawo^mn 



Entomoloqist, London, Out., xlviii, no. 12, December 1916, 

 pp. 411-413 & xhv, no. 1, January 1917, pp. 19-21. 



Pseudococcus Jessica, sp. n., from Columbia, Missouri, is described and 

 the hfe-history and habits are given. The female of this Coccid is 

 attended by small black ants, and probably hibernate^ in their nests. 

 The larvae of several species of Syrphids appear to be natural enemies 

 of this scale, and apparently are left unmolested by the ants. No 

 parasitic Hymenoptera have been reared from it. 



Maeshall (G. a. K.). The Fauna of British India. Curculionidae. 



Pt. l.-~London, Taylor & Francis, 1916 367 pp., 108 figs. 

 [Price 15s.]. 



This volume contains a general introductory account of the family 

 Curculionidae in its wide sense, the classification adopted being based 

 on Lacordaire's system in preference to that of Leconte and Horn. 

 Only two sub-families are dealt with in detail, the Brachyderinae 

 and Otiorrhynchinae, comprising 342 species, of which 179 are 

 described as new, 15 new genera being also erected. 



The damage done to cultivated plants by various species is briefly 

 referred to, and among these may be mentioned : — Tamjmecus tndicus, 

 Fst., the adults of w^hich nibble off the young germinating plants of 

 wheat, peas and gram ; Astycus lateralis, F., attacking the leaves of 

 tea and mulberry bushes ; A. immunis, Wlk., wdiich sometimes does 

 serious damage to the foliage of tea and coffee ; Sympiezomias 

 decipiens, Mshl., injuring young cinchona trees ; Epismmis lacerla, F., 

 on field beans and attacking the bark of cotton plants ; Enipero- 

 rrhinus defoliator, Mshl., defoliating fruit trees ; Myllocerus dorsatus, 

 F., attacking leaves of the sword bean (Canavalia) ; M. sabidosus, 

 Mshl., destroying young leaves of mango trees ; M. Icfroyi, Mshl, 

 defohating cherry trees ; 31. curvicornis, F., destructive to young 

 leaves of cacao and tea ; M. discolor, Boh., the larva of which is a 

 serious pest of sugar-cane, while the adults are general feeders 

 and attack the foliage of many different cultivated plants ; and 

 M. 11-piiskdatus, Fst., the adults of which have similar habits to 

 those of M. discolor. 



