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A West Virginia Bulletin.— Bulletin No. 21, of the West Virginia Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Va,, is a joint production 

 of Messrs. A. D. Hopkins, entomologist, and 0. F. Millspaugli, botanist, 

 and treats of injurious insects and plant diseases. It is a compilation 

 of general methods recommended by the best authorities in this country 

 for use against noxious insects and plant diseases, and contains brief' 

 directions for the preparation and use of all the better known insecti- 

 cides and fungicides. 



Entomological Notes from Australia.— Number 11, Volume II, of the 

 Agricultural Gazette, of New South Wales, contains two entomological 

 articles, the first entitled '^A new scale-insect destroying Saltbush," 

 and the other " Notes on current Work," both by Mr. A. Sidney Olliff, 

 the recently appointed Government entomologist. The new scale-insect 

 is a Pulvinaria which Mr. Olliff has named P. maskellL The saltbushes 

 are fodder plants of several genera, the species most affected being 

 Rhagodia hastata and Atriplex nummular i a. Several natural enemies 

 of the scale-insect have been found, and as a remedy it is advised to cut 

 down and burn infested plants before the eggs have hatched. After 

 the hatching of the eggs, spraying with dilute kerosene emulsion is 

 recommended. 



Under the head of "Notes on Current Work" the damage done by 

 Lecanium hesperidum to the Pepper Tree, particularly from the subse- 

 quent smut fungi, is mentioned and a bark-boring beetle {Bostrychus 

 jesuita) is recorded as boring in pepper and white cedar trees. The 

 Orange Rust Mite is also said to occur in numbers at Kurrajong. 



Miss Ormerod's Fifteenth Report.*— We have just received from Miss 

 Eleanor A, Ormerod, honorary consulting entomologist of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England, her fifteenth report upon observations 

 of injurious insects and common farm pests. This report fully sustains 

 the reputation of the series. It comprises 168 pages and is illustrated 

 by numerous text figures. A number of British crop pests are treated, 

 very few of which occur in this country. One of the most interesting 

 articles is that upon the Apple Saw-fly {Hoplocampa testudinea f). The 

 larvjTB of this insect work in a particularly destructive way, boring into 

 the very young fruit. In the orchards attacked the quantity of fruit 

 destroyed was very great, and Miss Ormerod is of the opinion that 

 this insect does considerable damage, for which the Codling Moth is 



* Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests, with Spe- 

 cial Eeport on Attack of Caterpillars of the Diamoud-back Moth, during the year 

 1891, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy. Fifteenth Report. By Eleanor A. 

 Ormerod. F. R. Met. Soc, etc. Loudon: Simpkiu, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent «& Co. 

 Limited. 1892. 18 pence. 



