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Mr. Bodee, unsubstantiated and unaccompanied by any particulars, in 

 a matter where error is so easy, is of little value against these positive 

 facts. 



Sending Codling Moth Enemies from the United States to New Zealand. — 

 Sometime since we instructed our California agent, Mr. Koebele, to collect 

 and forward a number of living specimens of a common Raphidia which 

 he had found to destroy the larva and pupa of the Codling Moth in Cali- 

 fornia, to Mr. Wight in New Zealand, as a partial return for Mr. Wight's 

 kindness to Mr. KoebeU^ when he was in New Zealand in the spring of 

 1889 collecting the insect enemies of the Fluted Scale. Hecent letters 

 from Mr. Wight and an article in the June number of the New Zealand 

 Farmer, inform us that the shipment arrived in fairly good condition, 

 although it was opened for examination and held for ten days at the 

 customhouse. Twenty-one specimens were sent, each one in a small 

 box with moss, and the whole inclosed in a strong wooden box. Mr. 

 Wight found pu[){e in sixteen of the boxes and a larva m one, while three 

 were empty, probably owing to the custom-house examination. The 

 single larva was hungry and very attenuated and it at once attacked 

 and devoured a Codling Moth larva twice its own size. It was so 

 stretched out and distended that at first, not discovering the absence 

 of the Codling Moth larva, Mr. Wight thought it was entering the pupa 

 state ; but it presently resumed its usual appearance and finished sev- 

 eral more larvae. 



We shall look forward to the result of this importation with great 

 interest. The genus Raphidia is represented in this country only upon 

 the Pacific coast and it is not at all likely that it will flourish East. We 

 shall attempt, however, the introduction of this ravenous creature into 

 some of our eastern apple orchards. 



Economic Entomology in India —No. 4. — Through the kindness of Mr. E. 

 T. Atkinson and Mr. E. C. Cotes, we have lately received No. 4 of Vol. 

 I of the interesting ''Indian Museum Notes" to which we have before 

 referred in these pages. The present number contains pages 175 to 

 213. illustrated by a single well-executed plate from the drawings of Mr. 

 G. C. Chuckrabotty, a native artist of considerable ability. The articles 

 in this number comi)rise "Notes on Rhynchota," by Mr. E. T. Atkin- 

 son ; " New Species of Indian Diptera," by Mr. J. M. F. Bigot ; " A 

 Butterfly Destructive to Fruit," by Mr. L. de Niceville, and "Miscella- 

 neous Notes," by Mr. E. C. Cotes. 



Mr. Atkinson's article is devoted principally to the consideration of 

 the so-called "mosquito-blight" which we have referred to in the review 

 of one of Mr. Green's articles upon the insects injurious to the tea-plant 

 in Ceylon- Mr. Atkinson describes several species of Heteroptera of 



