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Miscellaneous pests :• — Isosoma orchidearum, Westw., was found 

 in orchid bulbs from a conservatory in Westchester county. This 

 European insect was first discovered in the United States in 1889 at 

 Natick, Mass., and apparently did not again attract notice until the 

 above occasion. The plants should be closely w^atched and infested 

 parts should be burnt before the larvae can mature. Other insects 

 noticed were the Pyralid, Pionea {Phlyctaenia) terrealis, Treits., and 

 Tetmnychus telaritis, L. (red spider). 



Hartmann (F. T.). List of the Coccidae in the Collection of the New 

 York State Museum. — Thirtieth Rept. State Entomologist 1914, New 

 York State Museum, Albany, N. Y., Bull. no. 180, 1st January 

 1916, pp. 92-109. 



This list includes the 173 species of Coccidae in the New York State 

 Museum ; of these, 68 are found in New York State, 41 have been 

 received in exchange from Japan and the others are from widely 

 separated places in the United States. 



Savastano (L.). Le invasioni di bruchi nei nocciuoleti del Messinese. 



[The invasions of grubs in the hazel Avoods of the Messma 

 district.] — R. Staz. Speriment. Agrum. Fruttic, Acireale, Boll, 

 no. 19, October 1915. 16 pp. 



Grub infestation in the hazel-woods of the Messina district has been 

 observed for at least a century ; the continual extension of these 

 woods has caused the pests to multiply until the hazel-nut crop is now 

 seriously menaced. In the area of San Piero Patti, three species of 

 Lepidopterous larvae are chiefly represented, but they may not have 

 been predominant there in the past, nor is it certain that they are so at 

 present in other areas. The larvae usually pupate in the ground. 

 Direct control is required ; hand collection of the larvae and spraying 

 with 1 per cent, lead arsenate are the methods recommended. Up to 

 the present no cultural care has been given to the plantations, which 

 are more in the nature of woods than of orchards. In Campania, 

 hazel-woods more nearly resemble orchards, and are hoed every 

 year ; this hoeing destroys most of the larvae in the ground. 

 Balanimis pellitus, Boh., and sometimes B. elephas, Gyll., occur in 

 Sicily and hoeing would also destroy individuals of these species 

 hibernating in the ground. At San Piero Patti, some woods were 

 found to be infested with the weevils, Phyllobius reicheideus, Desbr., 

 and P. longipilis, Boh., which attack the foliage in the adult stage. 



SiLVESTRi (F.). A proposito di predatori e di Prospaltella nella lotta 

 contro la Diaspis. [Concerning predators and Prospaltella in the 

 control of Avlacaspis.] — Bull. Informazioni Seriche, ii, no. 25, 

 1915, pp. 654-65.'. 



At least ten years of careful observations will be necessary before an 

 accurate knowledge of the control of Aulacaspis pentagona can be 

 acquired. It cannot yet be said that Prospaltella berlesei is able, by 

 itself, to check this Coccid effectively. Cases are instanced where the 

 pest has again increased owing to favourable conditions in spite of the 



