JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY 209 
PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE PARASITES OF 
COCCUS HESPERIDUM 
P. H. Timberlake 
Jour. Economic Entomology, Vol.VI, No 3, 1913 
In this paper a short sketch of Coccus hesperidwm itself 
is given and then a very careful description of the five parasites 
and eight hyperparasites of the scale. The author closes with a 
paragraph on the source of the soft scale in California and a 
paragraph on the predaceous enemies of the scale. 
Grorce AsH. 
The first of a series of pamphlets on the ‘‘Control of the 
Orange Maggot (Trypeta ludens)’’ has been published by D. L. 
Crawford for the Mexico Gulf Coast Citrus Association. Mr. 
Crawford studied this pest while he was in Mexico in the summer 
of 1910. Because of his knowledge of the subject, this associa- 
tion called him to Mexico last summer to lay out directions for 
fighting the Orange Maggot. 
The circular states that the Orange Maggot is distributed over 
a large portion of Mexico. It attacks several fruits other than 
citrus fruits and this makes it more difficult to control. In order 
that the members of the association may work intelligently on 
the fly, a brief life history is given. Mr. Crawford gives two 
sets of directions for the control work. One method is to pick 
up the fruit as fast as it falls and to destroy it while the maggot 
is still working inside. The other method is to spray the trees 
with a poisoned, sweetened liquid in the period when the flies 
appear. The flies eat this poisoned bait and are killed. 
E. T. McFappen. 
