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iii, p. 505], is now published. Trials with the experimental machine 

 showed that the quantity of seed passing through the machine is only 

 about 1 bushel per hour. As such an output is obviously too small, it 

 is suggested that the endless belt of canvas could easily be replaced by 

 one of wire gauze at least 8 feet wide. The nature of this belt would 

 make it possible to treat the seed in a double layer instead of a single 

 one, while the length of the machine could be doubled, and instead of 

 passing once only through the chamber, the belt could be made to do 

 so three times, thus making the capacity of the proposed machine 

 seventy-two times that of the experimental one. 



Storey (G.). Report on the First Two Years' Working of the Plant 

 Protection Law (Law No. 5 of 1913). — Ministry of Agric, Egypt, 

 Tech. & Scient. Service, Bull. no. 1 (Entom. Section), 1916, 37 pp. 



This report embodies the text of the Egyptian Plant Protection Law 

 No. 5 of 1913. From that time further legislation has merely con- 

 sisted of four Orders, issued under Article 7 of the above law. These 

 provide for the fumigation of the following imports : — Mangoes from 

 the Indies and Madagascar ; oranges, lemons and mandarines from 

 Italy, Greece and Syria (which countries are declared to be infested 

 with Lepidosaphes {Mytilaspis) heckii) and from Turkey, Crete and 

 Rhodes (declared to be infested with Parlatoria zizyphus) ; bananas 

 from the Canary Islands, Zanzibar and Madagascar (declared to be 

 infested with Icerya seychellarum, Aspidiolus destructor, Pseudococcus 

 citri and Chrysomphalus aonidiitn. 



The following insects have been found on imported fruit : — • 

 Chrysoinphalus {Aspidiotus) aonidum, C. {A.) aurantii, L. (M.) heckii, 

 Parlatoria proteus and P. zizyphi on oranges. These five species also 

 occurred on mandarines and, excepting the last, on lemons. 

 Lemons were infested with Aspidiotus hederae, frequently found on 

 those from Italy and less so on those from Syria and Cyprus. Sweet 

 lemons, which come mainly from Cyprus, were heavily infested with 

 O. aurantii and occasionally with C. aonidum, L. heckii and P. proteus. 

 The chief pests on pomegranates were Pyralid larvae (? Ephestia sp.) 

 and a mealy-bug {Pseudococcus sp.). On vine leaves and twigs, used 

 as packing for oranges, there occurred P. proteus, from Cyprus, 

 Deilephila livornica (striped hawk-moth larva), from S}T:ia, Coccinella 

 septem-punctata, from Turkey, Eriophyes vitis, from Cyprus and 

 Turkey. Cydia {Carpocapsa) pomonella was the chief pest on apples, 

 of which the largest quantity was imported from Greece, Turkey and 

 Italy ; P. proteus also occurred on apples. Other pests intercepted 

 were Ephestia cautelh, on pears from Syria, Drosophila melanogaster on 

 rotten apricots and figs from Cyprus ; P. proteus and a Lepidopterous 

 larv^a on peaches from Italy ; P. proteus on plums, particularly those 

 from C}"prus ; a Lepidopterous larva on almonds from Cyprus ; 

 Dacus persicae and C. aonidum on mangoes from India ; Lepidosaphes 

 {Mytilaspis) sp. on olives from Syria. Bananas produced a greater 

 variety of insect pests than any other kind of fruit. These were : — • 

 C. aonidum, C. aurantii and Aspidiotus destructor from Madagascar 

 and Zanzibar ; P. proteus from the Canary Islands and Madagascar ; 

 Lecanium sp. from Madagascar ; Icerya seychellarum from Madagascar 

 and China ; and Pseudococcus sp. from the Canary Islands. 



