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Ephestia kilhniella, Zell., about which little has been published in 

 the Russian language, does great damage to flour. It is a common 

 insect in mills, where, owing to the high temperature, the hibernating 

 females occur throughout the winter. According to the statements 

 of millers, their numbers are so great that their webs frequently 

 obstruct the free passage of the flour through the hoppers and it 

 becomes necessary to take the hoppers to pieces and clean them, while 

 the workmen are able to earn a fair income by selling the caterpillars 

 at 4s. per lb. as food for cage-birds. In unheated mills, the adults 

 of the first generation appear in May and the second in August. It is 

 probable that there ii a partial third generation, which however 

 perishes in cold stores and premises, the usual hibernating stage 

 there being that of caterpillar and egg. A parasite, not yet identified, 

 has been observed to destroy large numbers of the caterpillars in 

 August and September. The only practical remedy, other than 

 fumigation with carbon bisulphide, consists of passing the flour 

 through sieves, when the first cold sets in, and removing it imme- 

 diately afterwards from the mill storehouses. 



(2). AvERiN (V. Gr.). KpaiKifl CBtfltHin o6-b aMSapHOMi. flo/iroHOCMKt 

 M M"bpaxi> 6opb6bl C"b HMMTj. [A short account of Calandra 

 graibaria and its control], pp. 56-59. 



The paper gives a summary of the life-history and control of Calandra 

 granaria, L., and also a list of 12 papers on it by various authors, of 

 which several have already been dealt with [see this Review, Series A, 

 ii, pp. 39, 213, 502 ; A, iii, pp. 487 and A, iv, 22]. The necessity of 

 beginning experiments on control by means of hydrocyanic acid gas is 

 urged, and a resolution to that effect was passed by the Conference. 



KuLAGiN (Prof. N. M.). HactHOMbm , BpeflHbm fljin noneeuxij Hynbiyp- 

 Hbixii pacTCHm bij EBponeMCKoii PoccIh bij 1914 rofly. [Insects 

 injurious to cultivated field-plants in European Russia in 1914.] 

 — «M3BtcTifl MocKOBCHaro SHTOMonorMsecKaro 06iMecTBa.» 



[Bulletins of the Moscow Entomological Society, {Societa Entomo- 

 logica Mosquensis)], Moscow, vol. i, 28th November 1915, 

 pp. 136-161. [Received 27th January 1915.] 



This tabulated summary, which is compiled from the district 

 reports, includes the following insect pests : — 



Coleoptera : Zabrus blaptoides, Dej. (wheat), Z. tenebrioides, 

 Goeze (wheat), Ophonus calceatus, Duft. (Italian millet), Blitophaga 

 nndata, Miill. (barley and wheat), Meligethes aeneus, F. (wheat, rape, 

 Salix, Caltha and Viola), Omophlus lepturcides, F. (rye), Podonta 

 nigrita, F., Opatnim sabidosum, L., Gonocephalum pusilluni, F., 

 Crioceris merdigera, L. (asparagus and onions), Lema inelatiopa, L., 

 Chaetocnema hortensis, GeofEr., Psylliodes attemiata, Koch (hemp), 

 P. luteola. Mull., Haltica euphorbiae, ¥., H. oleracea, L., Cassida 

 nebulosa, L., Bruchus pisorum, L. {pisi), Otiorrhgnchus ligustici, L., 

 Sitones lineatus, L., Baris chloris, F., Apion pomonae, F, (pears and 

 vetches), A. craccae, L., (vetches and oats), Melolontha melohntha, L. 

 (winter crops), Anisoplia austriaca, Hbst., A. cnicifera, Hbst,, 



