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RoGOZiN" (A.). OKypMBaHie ctpoil. [Fumigation with sulphur.] — 



« riporpecCHBHOe CaflOBOACTBO M OropOAHl1MeCTBO.» [Progressive 



Horticulture arid Market-Gardening], Petrograd, no. 10, 19th March 



191G, p. 310. 



The author suggests the use of the sulphur-paper ribbons used by 



the military sanitary authorities in their campaign against parasites 



of man, for controlling plant pests. These consist of slips of ordinary 



newspaper soaked in sulphur melted on a slow fire ; they are easily 



prepared, burn without any waste, and can be suspended inside the 



crowTi of the trees, so that the whole volume of vapour produced will 



be utilised. 



Plotnikov (V.). OiHeTbi o A'feflTenbHOCTM TypKeciaHCKOM Shtomo- 



norMHecKOM CiaHuiM 3a 1912, 1913 m MacTbio 1915 rr. [Reports 



on the work of the Turkestan Entomological Station in 1912, 



1913, 1914 and part of 1915.]— Tashkent, 1915, 60 pp. [Received 



7th April 1916.] 



This series of reports covers the period from 1912, being the second 



year of the existence of the station, to 1915, and describes the general 



and scientific research work done by the staff in each year. 



The following orchard pests were reported in 1912 : Polyphylla 

 tridenfata, Rtt. ; Onjctes nasicornis, L., the larvae of which were 

 found in company with those of Melolontha offlicta, Ball. ; Amphimallus 

 {Rhizotrogus) solstitialis, L. ; Poh/phylla adsjjersa, Motsch ; Pachydissus 

 sartus, Sols., which occurs in two generations and has infested 

 poplars, willows and apple trees; Scolytus fasciatus, Rtt.; Galerucella 

 luteola, Mull., injuring the local variety of elm {Ulmus turkestanica) ; 

 MelO'Soma (Lirui) populi, L., and Plagiodera versicolor, Laich., 

 injuring poplars and the latter also willows ; Polydrosus obliquatus, 

 Faust, found together with P. dohrni, Faust, — the latter being 

 erroneously recorded as P. ferganensis, Faust, in a previous paper 

 [see this Rerieio, Ser. A, ii, p. 714] — and injuring leaves of fruit trees, 

 mostly apples and pears ; Lytta pilosella, Sols., injuring flower and 

 leaf buds of apples and pears ; Capnodis tenebricosa, Hbst., gnawing 

 the young shoots and leaf petioles of pears in May ; the Geometrid, 

 Pterofocera declinata, Stgr. (erroneously referred to as Biston cinerarius, 

 Erscli., in the above-mentioned paper) were sent from Isphara, where 

 the caterpillars destroyed the foliage of apricots ; Hyptonomeuta 

 rariabilis, Zell. ; Coleophora sp., the damage done by which was 

 intensified by the caterpillars of Recurvaria nanella, Hb., Eucosma 

 {Tvietocera) ocellana, F., and Tortrix (Pandemis) cliondrillana, H.S. ; 

 Blastodacna (Lavertm) heUerella, Dup., injuring apple shoots near 

 Samarkand [see however this Review, Ser. A, ii, p. 342, note] ; 

 Sarrothripus muscidanus, Ersch., injuring walnuts near Tashkent ; 

 Vespa crabro, L., and T". germanica, F., damaging ripe fruit in 

 vineyards and orchards ; Locusla viridissinm, L., gnawing apples 

 and cherries near Samarkand ; Physokermes coryli, L., damaging 

 stone fruits ; Eulecanimn {Lecanium) bituberculatum, Targ., on young 

 apples and pears ; Lepidosaphes idmi, L. ; Lachnus persicae, Choi., 

 mostly on peaches and occasionally in small colonies on apricots ; 

 Eriophyes pyri, Pagst., and E. vitis. Land. 



Field crops and market-gardens were attacked by : — Laphygma 

 {C'aradrina) exigua, Hb. ; Chloridea {Heliothis) dipsacea, L., on lucerne 



