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Several consignments of grain and flour have been found infested 

 with grain weevils {Calandra spp.), flour beetles {Triboliuni spp.), 

 Sitoiroga cerealella (Angoumois grain moth), Ephestia kuhniella 

 (Mediterranean flour moth), Tylenchus triiici (ear cockles) and other 

 less important pests. All these, however, already occur in Egypt, 

 and no steps were taken to prevent their importation. 



In an appendix to this paper, it is stated that the above law has been 

 replaced by a new Law, No. 1 of 1916, which embodies the amendments 

 seen to be necessary from the foregoing report. An order has beeo 

 pubhshed comprising measures against : — Dacus persicae on mangoes ; 

 Parlatoria zizyphi, L. beckii and Aspidiotus hederae on citrus fruits ; 

 A. destructor, I. seychellarum., P. ciiri and C. aonidum on bananas. 

 The law prohibits the importation of cotton plants, ginned or unginned 

 cotton, cotton seed and cotton wood, vine leaves, hving insects in 

 all stages and bacterial cultures injurious to plants. Except with 

 the permission of the Ministry of Agriculture, the importation is 

 forbidden of : — Date palms, banana plants, sugar-cane or any other 

 plant which may be specified, silk-worms and bees. This also applies 

 to the importation in transit of cotton seed and cotton, ginned or 

 unginned. Various other measures, such as examination, fumigation, 

 etc., are included in the law, the execution of which is entrusted to the 

 Ministry of Agriculture and to the Customs and Postal Authorities. 



GouGH (L.). The nature of the damage done by the pink boll worm 



{Gelechia gossypiella, Saund.). — Ministry of Agric, Egypt, Tech. & 

 Scient. Service, Bull. no. 2 (Entom. Section), 1916, 6 pp. 



This paper embodies the results obtained in an enquiry into the 

 nature of the damage done to cotton-bolls by Gelechia gossypiella, 

 Saund. These are given in detail and may be summarised as being : 

 Reduction in number, weight, and vitality ; reduction in weight and 

 quality of the lint ; reduction in percentage of lint, with a fall in 

 quality of the seed, the place of some seeds being taken by w^orthless 

 hulls and broken seed. These experiments were conducted with 

 second picking cotton, and others with first picking cotton are 

 therefore desirable ; these, when completed, should afford information 

 that will be useful in estimating a crop. 



Brittain (W. H,). Sucking Insects of the Apple. — Canadian Horticul- 

 turist, Peterboro, Ont., xxxix, no. 3, March 1916, pp. 59-60, 1 fig. 



The three species of Aphids which injure the apple in Nova Scotia 

 are Aphis sorbi, Kalt, (rosy apple aphis), A. pomi, De G. (green apple 

 aphis) and Eriosoma lanigerum, Hausm. (woolly apple aphis). The 

 character of the injury and methods of control are dealt with in a 

 popular manner. 



Ehrhorn (E. M.). Report of the Division of Entomology. — Hawaiian 

 Forester & Agriculturist, Honolulu, xiii, no. 3, March 1916, 

 pp. 67-69. 



During the month of December 1915, the following were some of the 

 insect pests intercepted : — Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis from citrus 

 fruit in the luggage of a passenger from the Philippines ; Chrysom- 

 phalus biformis and Diaspis boisduvali on orchids from New Jersey. 



