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Hungary from Belgium and is now very common in glasshouses in 

 Budapest, being found on Phoenix, Kentia, Latania and Areca, to 

 which it causes considerable damage. The author gives a detailed 

 account of the characters, geographical distribution and economic 

 importance of this scale- insect and recommends the notification of 

 infested greenhouses, with a view to checking its spread. 



Berlese (A.). Scutellisla gigantea, Berl., sp. n. — Redia, Florence, xii, 

 no. 1-2, 25th April 1917, pp. 179-180. 



This is a description of a new Chalcid, Scutellista giganiea, bred 

 from Cerojjhstes mimosae in Eritrea. 



Nielsen (J. C). Undersogelser over entoparasitiske Muscidelarver 

 hos Arthropoder. VI. [Researches on endoparasitic Muscid Larvae 

 in Arthropods.] — Videnskabelige Meddelelser, Odense, Ixviii, 

 1917, pp. 23-36, 20 figs. 



In the English summary of this paper, Panzcria minor, Villen. 

 & Niels., is recorded as parasitising the caterpillars of Taeniocam/pa 

 puJverulenta, Esp., and Cahjmnia trapezina, L. The larva previously 

 recorded as that of Ernest ia connivens, Zett., is now stated to belong 

 to another species, probably Plagia trepida, Meig. Winthemia quadri- 

 piistuhia, F., has been bred from Vanessa io, L., V. urticae, L., Cucullia 

 hjchnitidis, Ramb., and Trigonophora {Brotolomia) meticulosa, L. 

 Frivaldzkia distincta, Meig., was bred from the caterpillars of Drepana 

 falcataria, L., Ematurga atomaria, L., Cabara pusaria, L., C. exanthe- 

 mata, Sc, Cidaria corylata, Thb., Eupithecia {Tephroclystia) indigata, 

 Hb., and from young caterpillars of Sphinx pinastri, L. Campylochaeta 

 obscura. Fall, is parasitic in the caterpillars of Crocallis elinguaria, L. 

 Tachina rustica. Fall., has been bred in June from the larvae of an 

 undetermined saw-fly feeding in September on clover. Goniocera 

 enigmatica, Villen. & Niels., was bred from caterpillars of Malacosoma 

 castrensis. 



ToFi (SI.). Nuove Esperienze di Lotta contro le Tignuole dell' Uva. 



[New Control Experiments against the Vine Moths.] — Minerva 

 Agraria, Milan, ix, no. 13-14, 15th-31st July 1917, p. 167. 

 [Abstract from Aiti R. Accad. Lincei, Rome, xxvi, series 5, 1st 

 half-year, no. 4, 18th February 1917.] 



Previous experiments [see this Review, Ser. A, ii, p. 679] in the 

 control of vine moths [Clysia ambiguella and Polychrosis botrana] were 

 continued in 1916. In the preceding year about one thousand stocks 

 were wrapped in rags, etc., and in January 1916 these shelter-traps 

 were removed, the top joints of the canes supporting the vines being 

 cut off at the same time. In the small portion of this material which 

 was examined very few pupae were found. These vines were sprayed 

 on 15th May and 30th May. On the first occasion an aqueous solution 

 of 0-8 per cent, lead arsenate was applied, and on the second, Bordeaux 

 mixture with ] per cent, lead arsenate. To increase the adhesiveness 

 of the latter spray, 0*1 per cent, of casein was added. After they had 

 been slightly defoliated the same vines were sprayed on 19th Julv 



