Vol.V,No. 1.] INSECT LIFE. [Issued September, 1892. 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



The Agricultural Gazette of New South "Wales — Part 5 of Volume 3, May, 

 1892, of this interesting- journal contains Mr. Olliff's usual entomological 

 notes. He treats in this number an insect which he calls Bronzy Orange 

 Bug ( OncosceUs siilciventris Stoll). This insect seems to be a formidable 

 pest in l^ew South Wales, since it damages both fruit and the young shoots 

 and buds by making innumerable punctures with its beak. The eggs 

 are very large and laid in patches on the leaves or twigs. The number 

 of annual generations is not given. The principal remedial work which 

 has been done has been in jarring the bugs from the trees in the cool 

 of the morning or on a cold, dull day, when the insects are more or less 

 torpid. This species, in our opinion, could be readily destroyed by an 

 application of kerosene emulsion. This is the same insect referred to 

 by Mr. Koebele in his account of his trip to Australia in 1888 under the 

 name of '■'■ Aspongopus sp." Mr. Olliff further treats of the subject of 

 Codling Moth remedies, and reprints the striking experience of Mr. J. 

 S. Lupton from Insect Life, He urges the adoption of American 

 methods. 



Report of the Dominion Entomologist for 1891 The annual report of the 



officers of the Experimental Farm system of the Dominion of Canada 

 has just reached us in the shape of a royal octavo volume of 350 pages. 

 Mr. James Fletcher's report as Entomologist and Botanist covers pages 

 192 to 220. The principal insects treated are the Eye- spotted Bud 

 Moth, a new case-bearer of the Apple, the Pear-leaf Blister-mite, the 

 Clover Eoot-borer, an oat weevil {Macrops porcellus), the Eed Turnip 

 Beetle (EntomosceUs adonidls), and the Pea Weevil. He also includes 

 a section on spraying with the arsenites, in which he particularly reviews 

 the London scare against American apples which attracted so much 

 attention last fall. He gives the result of certain analyses by Mr. 

 Shutt, the Chemist of the Dominion Experiment Farms, which indicated 

 that not the slightest trace of arsenic could be found upon apples which 

 were twice sprayed with Paris green during the month of June. In his 

 Pea- weevil article Mr. Fletcher gives the result of some experiments in 

 regard to the germination of peas which have been infested by the in- 

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