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stroyed by the Wabble Blight or Australian Bug, Mr. Tiuline, while at Cape Towu, 

 read there a pamphlet by Miss Ormerod, the entomologist, entitled "Notes on the 

 Australian Bug {I. purchasi) in South Africa," which stated that the grubs of acocci- 

 uellid or lady-bird have been observed by Mr. Bairstow to do much good, by destroy- 

 ing the young Australian bugs just at hatching time within the sac of the female. 

 Of these Mr. Bairstow says: 



"The Cocciuella is by far our best friend. It is proving a perfect godsend in de- 

 stroying the perfect young in tiidits of the female 'bug.' The larva buries itself in 

 the gravid female and completely destroys her progeny, the dead carcass falling to 

 the ground; and it eats the 'bug,' not only when it (the Coccinella) is young, but 

 when it has developed to beetle condition." Mr. Tinliue accordingly wrote to a 

 friend iu Cape Town asking him to procure some of the lady-birds, which he did, and 

 one hundred and twenty of the little beetles were caught, put into a bottle with a 

 goodsupply of the " bugs" to feed upon, and shipped on board of the Toncjariro. On 

 arrival in New Zealand (passage twenty to twenty-two days, steamer) it was found 

 that by far the larger number of them were alive and healthy. A few were given to 

 Mr, Maskell in Wellington, and the remainder brought on to Nelson. Mr. Maskell's 

 advice was to select some smallshrub infested with the blight, cover it carefully with 

 muslin, and then turn the lady-birds into this cage. A young lemon tree, to which 

 the bug is paying great attention, was selected in Mr. Sharp's garden for the pur- 

 pose, and there the little colony of lady-birds is to all appearances thriving. 



SUCCESSFUL SPRAYING WITH PARIS GREEN FOR CODLING MOTH. 



Through the kiuduess of Mr. G. F. Keiinan, of Kogers, Benton 

 County, Ark., we learn tliat at the county fair, held from the 10th to 

 the 13th of October, 1888, Mr. Ellis, of Benton ville, sent in the entire 

 product, good, and bad, of two Ben Davis apple trees, which he had 

 treated with Paris green, and asked that they be examined by experts. 

 This was done, and the investigation proved that not a single apple in- 

 fested by Codling Moth could be found. 



THE LEATHER BEETLE LITIGATION. 



Those who read the article on the Leather Beetle or Toothed Der- 

 mestes {Dermestes vulpinus Fab.) in our Annual Report for 1886 (pages 

 258 to 204) will be interested, doubtless, to learn that the lawsuit be- 

 tween A. Einstein's Sons, of Savannah, and the Boston and Savannah 

 Steam ship Company, in which the former claimed damages for injury 

 done by this beetle to boots, as alleged, from Boston to Savannah, has 

 since been tried twice, and that both times the juries have failed to 

 agree. The issue is still being fought, and it is not outside the bounds 

 of possibility that some day a decision may be reached. The evidence 

 at the final trial will be interesting reading to entomologists. 



