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Anstead (R. D.). Report on a Tour in Central Travancore. — Planters' 

 Chronicle, Bangalore, xi, no. 2, 8th January 191G, pp. 12-14. 



Central Travancore is, as a whole, remarkably free fioni diseases 

 when compared with other tea districts. The worst pest is HeJopeltis 

 which appears to be slowly spreading. Other known food-plants of 

 this pest are cinchona and tea, and probably others exist. The 

 former should be abolished from among the tea plants and the latter 

 kept away from the boundaries as far as possible. 



Report on the Agricultural Department, St. Vincent, 1914-15. — 



Barbados, 1915, 23 pp. 



Except in the case of cacao and arrowroot, crops were not seriously 

 attacked by insect pests during the year. The damage to cacao by 

 Heliothrips rubrocincfus increased in extent ; spraying with kerosene 

 emulsion and other washes was carried out. The numbers of 

 Aleurodiciis cocois (coconut white-fly) in the Leeward District were 

 nuich less than in the previous year, probably on account of insect 

 and fungus parasites. Aspidiotus destrnctor occurred on coconuts in 

 some localities ; in the Carib country the pest appeared to be kept in 

 check by a parasite or predator, or both. Arrowroot in the leeward 

 district was somewhat severely attacked by the larva of the Hesperid, 

 Calpodes etlilius. 



Green (E. E.). On two new British Coccidae, with notes on some 

 other British species.- -Entomologist's Mihly. Mag., London, lii, 

 nos, 13 and 14, January and February 1916, pp. 23-31, 4 figs. 



Parafairmairia gracilis, sp. n.. and Lecanopsis longicornis, sp. n., 

 were fovnid on grasses in the vicinity of Camberley in July 1915. 

 The following species are also recorded : — Gossyparia uhni, Geoft'., 

 found on elm at Farnham, Surrey, and well-known as a pest of green- 

 house plants, including palms, Dracaena, Citrus and oleander ; 

 Aspidiotns ostreaefonnis, Curt., on poplar at Farnham ; Lepidosaphes 

 {Mytilaspls) ficiis, Sign., on young twigs of edible fig at Wisley and on 

 Japanese maple ; Parlaturia proteus, Curt., on Vanda teras, at Wisley*, 

 Eidecanium {Lecanium) ciliatam, Dougl., occurring in Devonshire, 

 Cheshire, Kent and Surrey ; E. (L.) persicae, Geof?., on leaves of 

 Aralia ; Eriopeltis festucae, Fonsc, and Lazidaspis luzulae, Duf., at 

 €amberley. 



Theobald (F. V.). A New Myrmecophilous Aphid from Africa. — 



Entomologist's Record, London, xxviii, no. 2, 15th February 1916, 

 pp. 37-38. 



A description is given of Aphis pheidolei, sp. n., found in the nests 

 of an ant, Pheidole, sp., at Mwengwa, Rhodesia. This species probably 

 occurs on some iiative plant, just as the myrmecophilous Aphis 

 plantaginis, Schrank, does in Europe. 



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