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thus attacked stops growing and gradually withers. The caterpillars 

 that hibernate in the leaves usually penetrate in the spring into the 

 young buds, just then beginning to grow and giving rise to the shoots 

 for the first tea harvest. The presence of the insects in such shoots 

 shows its effect about the beginning of May. They begin to pupate 

 in the first half of June inside the damaged shoots ; pupation takes 

 place during the following two months and lasts about a fortnight, 

 the adults being thus on the wing from the end of June until the end of 

 August. Besides tea, CatJiellia japonica is attacked, and as no injuries 

 to local plants were observed, it is thought that this pest has been 

 imported with these two plants from China. The caterpillars are 

 parasitised by one Braconid and two Chalcidoids of the genera Elasmus 

 and PteromaJus. The remedies suggested are the burning of the shoots 

 or tmgs removed during the usual winter pruning and the cutting and 

 burning of attacked twigs and shoots during the first half of April. 

 Trapping the adults with lights or molasses should also be tried. 



KusNETZOv (N. J.). OnMCaHJe Paramelriotes theae, gen. n., sp. n. 

 (Lepidoptera Tineidae), HOBarO BpeflMTenfl HaMHaro Kycia B'b 

 3aKaBKa3b%. [Description of Paramelriotes theae, gen. n,, sp. n., 

 a new pest of tea in Transcaucasia.]— « PycCKOe Shtomojiofm- 

 HeCKOe 06o3p'tHie.» [Revue Russe (VEntomologie], Petrograd, xv, 

 no. 4, 28th March 1916, pp. 626-652, 34 figs. 



This is a description of the moth referred to in the previous paper. 

 The author is of opinion that this insect has been imported from China, 

 India or Ceylon, though it has not yet been recorded as a pest in those 

 countries. An Enghsh translation of the description is appended to 

 the paper. 



EoBEETs (A. W. K.). Report on Aphidae, 1915. — Lancashire 

 Naturalist, Darwen, ix, no. 98, May 1916, p. 38. 



The following Aphids are recorded : — Brachycolus stellariae, Hardy, 

 on Stellar ia holostea; Pemphigus bursarius, L., Eriosoma (Schizoneura) 

 lanigerum, Hausm., and Lachnus 2nceae,y^]k., on. Piceaalha. 



Matsumura (S.). Synopsis of the Economic Syrphidae of Japan. — 



Entom. Mag., Kyoto, Japan, ii, no. 1, March 1916, pp. 1-29, 

 1 plate. [Received 1st June 1916.] 



Descriptions of a large number of new and other Syrphids said 

 to be of economic importance are given in this paper with keys to the 

 genera and species. Their economic relations are not, however, stated. 



Hewitt (C. G.). The Introduction and Establishment in Canada of the 

 Natural Enemies of the Brown-Tail and Gipsy Moths. — Agric. Gaz. 

 Canada, Ottawa, iii, no. 1, January 1916, pp. 20-21. [Received 

 6th June 1916.] 



The brown-tail moth [Euproctis chrysorrhoea] occurs at present in 

 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, while the gipsy moth [Lymantria 

 dispar] has reached to a distance of about 50 miles from the boundary. 



