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California, -while otlier species have been received from Baltimore, Md.; 

 Olen Juglis, N. C; Joy, Pa.; and New York and Chicago. 



The ordinary cutworm remedies in such extraordinary cases nuist be 

 largely abandoned and army-worm remedies substituted. 



THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH IN NE^Y YORK, 



It is strange, considering the ease with which the larvte of Epliestia 

 kuehnieUa may be carried in flour and grain, that it has not spread all 

 over the United States. Down to the present spring it was known to 

 occur in injnrioiis numbers only in Ontario and California. Mr. W. G. 

 Johnson, of Champaign, 111., however, in the American Miller for May 

 1, lcS95, records the receipt of specimens of this insect from a Xew 

 York miller, with the statement that the mill had been obliged to shut 

 down several times in order to clean out the elevator spouts and other 

 machinery. The locality in Kew York is not given. It will pay all 

 millers to use the most scrupulous cleanliness about their establish- 

 ments, and to thoroughly steam or treat with bisulphide of carbon all 

 bags, barrels, boxes, and second-hand machinery which may be brought 

 into their mills. Mr. Johnson thinks that the substitution of metal for 

 wooden spouts will also be a measure of great utility. The insect is a 

 diificult one to fight, and the experience of Toronto and San Francisco 

 millers should lead others engaged in this business in all parts of the 

 country to keep a sharp lookout for the pest. 



APPLES AND THE CODLING MOTH IN AUSTRALIA, 



Probably influenced by the successful exportation of apples from the 

 United States to England, Australian colonies are beginning a similar 

 export. From various districts in South Australia many hundreds of 

 cases of apples will be sent to the London Produce Depot in 1S95, the 

 expense of shipment amounting to about 8 shillings per case. Many 

 districts in South Australia are still uninfested by the codling moth, but 

 in spite of the existence of regulations forbidding the sale of att'ected 

 fruits and the penalty of a flue not exceeding £50 for each oftense, 

 apples and pears, according to Mr. W. C. Grasby, of the Garden and 

 Field (Adelaide), are freely sold at auction and in the markets and are 

 distributed throughout the colony when they are badly infested by 

 codling moth caterpillars. Eecent fruit-growers' meetings have passed 

 resolutions calling the attention of the minister of agriculture to this 

 fact, and recommending that full jniblicity be given to the regulations 

 forbidding the sale of aftected fruit, after which the regulations should 

 be strictly enforced. 



THE GRAYE-DIGGrER WASP AND ITS PARASITE, 



On page 376 of our last volume, it may be remembered, we gave some 

 notes from one of our correspondents on a digger-wasp that provisioned 

 its nest with cutworms and a parasite which follows the latter after they 

 have been buried. 



