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Bulletin No. 21, Division of Entomology.* — Under tllis serial number Mr. 

 Koebele's report on his trip to Australia and New Zealand to investigate 

 the natural enemies of leerya purchasi has recently been published. 

 The bulletin is a narrative account and is plain and circumstantial. 

 It is devoted almost entirely to the subject of his quest, but incident- 

 ally mentions some of the insect pests to Australian agriculture. 

 Among these are Otiorhynchus cribricoUis, a common south European 

 Snout-beetle which has been imported into Australia, and is injurious 

 to the Olive ; Aspidiotns rossi Crawford, a Bark-louse injuring a variety 

 of shrubs, including the olive tree; the Woolly Apple-louse {Schizoneura 

 lanigera) probably introduced from this country ; Chortologa at(straJis, 

 Sauss. MS., a destructive migratory locust which in South Australia 

 takes the place of our Melanoplus spretus ; the Black Scale (Lecanium 

 ole(v), probably introduced direct from Europe on the Olive ; several 

 scale-insects of the subfamily Monophloehime, injurious to the Eucalyp- 

 tus; Mictis prof ana Fi\h. and a new species of Aspongoptis — two Heter- 

 opterous insects injurious to the Orange — and three si^ecies of Melolonth id 

 beetles injurious in the larval state to wheat (;rops. These are : ScitaJa 

 nigrolineata Boisd., S. pruinosaT)\x\xoL., and Anodontonyx vigilans Sharj}, 

 the latter described in the last number of Insect Life, page 302. The 

 beetles were determined for us by Dr. David Sharp, of England, and 

 the migratory grasshopper by M. Henri de Saussure, of Geneva. We 

 have illustrated the report with 10 figures, 11 of which are new. 



Recent important Entomological Reports.— Mr. Fletcher's report as ento- 

 mologist of the experimental farms of Canada for 1889 reached us 

 April 1-4 1 from Canada. He has some 30 pages of interesting matter 

 illustrated with a dozen cuts. The principal articles concern the Hes- 

 sian Fly, the Grain Aphis, the "Wheat Stem-maggot" (better known as 

 the American Meromyza), Cut- Worms, Mediterranean Flour-moth, Gran- 

 ary Weevils, Spraying with Arsenites, Fullers Rose-beetle, and a curi- 

 ous account of insects injuring a wooden water pipe. The principal points 

 brought out are the facts that the Meromyza breeds freely in several 

 kinds of grasses, the suggestion that an early sown strip of wheat 

 or barley maj' be used as a trap for the same insect, and an indorse- 

 ment of the poison trap remedy for Cut- Worms. 



Prof. J. B. Smith has favored us with his bulletin on the insects in- 

 juriously affecting Cranberries in New Jersey.| He gives full illustra- 



* U. S. Department of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No 21. 

 (Revised Edition.) Report of a Trip to Australia made under direction of the Ento- 

 mologist to investigate the Natural Enemies of the Fluted Scale, by Albert Koebele. 

 (Published by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture.) Washington : ISDO. 



t Experimental Farms. Reports of the Director, Chemist, Entomologist and Bot- 

 anist, Horticulturist, Poultry Mauager, and Superintendents Experimental Farms, 

 for 1889. Ottawa. 1890. 



t Special Bulletin New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, K, Febru 

 arv 28, 1890. 



