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" Tineidae." [A remedy against the house-moth. Family 

 Tineidae.] — « CanOBOflTs.» [The Horticulturist], Rostov-on-Don, 

 no. 12, December 1915, pp. 897-900. 



Three species of Tineids are known under the name of house-moth 

 in Russia, viz :■ — Tineola biselliella, Hummel, Tinea {Trichophaga) 

 tapetiella, L., and Tinea pellionella, L. A short account is given of 

 their life-history and of remedies for them, of which the most 

 efiective are the sewing up of articles in strong bags, frequent airing, 

 etc., such measures as powdering with tobacco and naphthaline being 

 of little use. A remedy applied with success by the native population 

 of Bessarabia consists in keeping in all rooms, etc., bunches of Melilotus 

 officinalis, the scent of which keeps the premises free from the moths. 

 The author's own experiments with this plant proved completely 

 successful and he suggests further investigations with it. 



CoCTOHHie 03MMbIX-b BCXOflOBTj KT* I -My HOflSpfl 1915 FOfla. [The 

 state of winter-sown crops up to the 14th November 1915 in 

 European Russia, Western Siberia and Central- Asia.] — «M3B'tCTiH 

 MMHMCTepcTBa SewineAtjiifl (new title for « MsBtcT. TnaBH. 

 VnpaBn. 3. M 3.» [Bulletins of the Ministry of Agriculture (new 

 title for Bulletins of the Central Board of Land Administration 

 <& Agriculture.)], Petrograd, no. 47, 5th December 1915^ 

 pp. 1152-1155. 



Only sHght damage was done to crops by insect pests in European 

 Russia during the autumn of 1915. Caterpillars of Euxoa segetum were 

 reported from the governments of Central, South-western and 

 Novorussia, and from those of Samara, Saratov, Penza, Livland and 

 Perm, but they did not cause any substantial damage and dis- 

 appeared with the arrival of frosts and rainy weather. In the 

 south-eastern and some of the southern governments, small numbers of 

 the Hessian fly {Mayetiola destructor) and of Oscinella [Oscinis] frit 

 were observed. With few exceptions, no important insect pests were 

 noticed in the provinces of western Siberia and Central Asia. 



Ol (I. A.). BpeflMient aOjioHM. [On a pest of apple-trees.] — 



« riporpecCMBHOe CaflOBOflCTBO H OropOflHMHeCTBO.» [Progressive 



Fruit-growing & Market- gardening], Petrograd, no. 48, 12th 



December 1915, p. 1260. 



In reply to a subscriber, the author states that his apple trees are 



probably attacked by Rhynchites coeruleus, de G. The imagines of 



this pest are found in May and June on various fruit trees, including 



cherries, apples, plums, pears, apricots, etc., and also on service and 



bird-cherry trees. At the beginning of summer, the weevils injure 



leaf and flower buds ; the females oviposit inside the shoots and 



gnawing at the stalk of the shoot cause the latter to hang or drop 



down. The larvae mature in four weeks and pupate at a depth 



of a few inches in the earth. Only one generation occurs during 



the summer. Shaking the weevils from the trees and the collecting 



of the shoots injured by the females are the remedies advised. 



