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in the Colony is given. Among thrips, of which 12 species have been 

 identified, FranklinieUa insularis, Frank!., is found on blossoms of 

 various plants, roses, etc. ; Heliothrips haemorrhoidaUs, Bch., is 

 abundant on leaves of orange, avocado and other plants, frequently 

 proving very destructive ; Hoplandoikrips affinis, Hood, has been 

 taken from leaf-sheaths of sugar-cane ; and FranMniothnps 

 vespiforrnis, Cwfd., is a predaceous species. 



A new Alem'odid, Eudialeurodicus hodkini, Q. & B., w^as found on 

 leaves of Erythrina glauca. 



DoDD (A. p.). Records and Descriptions of Australian Chalcidoidea. — 

 Trans. Proc. R. Soc. S. Australia, Adelaide, xli, 24:th December 

 1917, pp. 344-368. [Received 13th July 1918.] 



Among the species recorded in this j)aper are : — Stomatoceroides 

 nthripes, Gir., reared from Tineid larvae in eucalyptus galls ; 

 Stomatoceras gracilicorpiis, Gir., a parasite of the sugar-cane bud-moth,. 

 Opogona glycyphaga, Meyrick ; Euryischia shakes pear ei, Gir., reared 

 from puparia of a small Dipteron attacking Aphis sacchari (sugar-cane 

 aphis) ; E. aleiirodis, sp. n., from Aleurodes on sugar-cane ; 

 Polycystomyia benefica, sp. n., Trigonogastra agromyzae, sp. n., and 

 Pterosema subaenea, sp. n., all from Agromyza phaseoli (bean- fly) in 

 stems of cow-pea ; Eurydinota braconis, sp. n., bred from cocoons 

 of Apanteles on larvae of Cirphis {Lencania) nnipiincta ; Pterosemoidea 

 drosophilae, sp. n., bred from puparia of a Drosophilid fly, the larvae 

 of which destroy Pseudococcus calceolariae (sugar-cane mealy bug) ; 

 Tetracnemella megymeni, sp. n., bred from eggs of the bug, Megymenum 

 insulare; Cristatithorax viridiscutum, Gir., bred from the ootheca 

 of a common Blattid, Ellipsidion pellucidimi, on leaves of sugar-cane ; 

 Anastahis aristotelea, Gir., from eggs of the Neuropteron, Torbia 

 viridissima ; Agamerion metallica, Gir., a very common parasite in 

 the oothecae of Ellipsidion pellucidum ; Neodimtnockia agromyzae, 

 sp. n., from Agromyza phaseoli in stems of cow-pea ; Mestocharomyia 

 oophaga, sp. n., from oothecae of Ellipsidion pellucidum ; Pleurotro- 

 pomyia aeneoscutellmn, Gir., bred from sugar-cane leaves infested 

 Avith a leaf-mining Tineid, Cosmopteryx sp. ; and Rhicnopeltomyia 

 aeneicoQca, sp. n., reared from a pupa embedded in the midrib of a. 

 sugar-cane leaf. 



Halligan (C. P.). Strawberry Culture. — Michigan Agric. Expt. Sta., 

 East Lansing, Spec. Bull. no. 84, February 1918, 19 pp., 18 figs. 

 [Received 13th July 1918.] 



The pests of strawberries dealt with include white grubs [Lach- 

 nosterna spp.], which feed on the large roots or in the crowns, 

 causing the wilting and dying of the plants. As the beetles producing 

 these grubs oviposit in sod lands, such lands should be devoted to 

 some other cultivated crop for at least one season before planting 

 strawberries. Deep ploughing in the autumn will kill many of the 

 grubs. The strawberry leaf-roller [Aticylis comptana] oviposits on 

 the under.'Surface of the leaves in early spring, and the larvae fold 

 over the leaflets and feed within them, causing them to die. Before 



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