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preventive ineasuie, stress is laid on the necessity for clean cultivation 

 and care of the young cane in order to stimulate rapid growth and 

 enable the plants to resist attack. As a control, poison experiments 

 have been carried out ^vith negative results, the wireworms being 

 apparently very resistant. This method is being further investigated. 



Entomologie. [Entomology]. — Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Acclimafaiion, Paris, 

 Ixviv, no. 3, March 1917, pp. 87-88. 



In the Department of Seine and Marne in 1916 cabbages wore 

 damaged by Pierid caterpillars. The destruction was greatest in 

 September, but was probably not as severe as it might have been owing 

 to their being very largely parasitised, mainly by Microgasler 

 (jlomeraius. 



LEGISLATION. 



Ordinance relating to the Coconut Beetle in Samoa: — British MiUtary 

 Occupation of Samoa, Proclamation no. 6, 1914. [Received 

 13th Pebiuary 1917.] 



This Proclamation, issued 19th December 1914, supplements the 

 Coconut Beetle Ordinances of 19th April 1911, and orders that no 

 new planting or cultivation of any lands shall be made without 

 permission in waiting of the Inspector appointed by the Coconut 

 Beetle Commission ; such permission will only be given subject to 

 the burning and destroying of all dead wood which is hkely to provide 

 breeding places for the insect. Any complaint against the decision 

 of the Inspector must be made in writing to the Commission within 

 10 days from the date of the decision. Any contravention of these 

 orders entails a fine not exceeding 40 shillings for each acre so planted, 

 and in the event of enforcement of the Ordinance of 1911 no damage 

 can be claimed for destruction of young plants. 



Ordinance relating to the Destruction of the Coconut Beetle in Samoa : 



— British Military Occupation of Samoa, Proclamation no. 19, 

 1915. [Received 13th February 1917.] 



Under date of the 6th August 1915, the Administrator of Samoa 

 has issued an order providing that all labourers employed upon any 

 plantation shall devote the working hours of the forenoon of every 

 Monday exclusively to the search and destruction of all stages of 

 the coconut beetle {Oryctes nasicornis) throughout the whole of the 

 infested portions of their land, and a return shall be rendered to the 

 Inspector by the owner, showing the result of the search. Every 

 owner of infested lands is held personally responsible for the carrying 

 out of these measures. The Administrator may exempt from the 

 provisions of this order any plantations which he is satisfied are free 

 from infestation, and any labourers employed in special capacities 



