920 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 
No. 7.—APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY IN WESTERN 
AUSTRALIA. 
By Cuaupe Fouuter, Assistant Entomologist to the Government 
of Cape Colony (Late of the Bureau of Agriculture, Perth). 
(Acad Tuesday, 11 January, 1898.) 
THe author defines briefly the ends and aims of economic | 
entomology, and refers to the rapid strides which this science has 
made of recent years in Australia, alluding more particularly to 
legislation for the purpose of eradicating insect-pests. In this 
work West Australia is the most advanced of the colonies, and 
the author traces the inception of the Acts relating to the 
exclusion of imported pests and the suppression of those already 
in existence. The Act dealing with imported pests arose from 
the fact that the codlin moth did not occur in the orchards of 
West Australia, and the effective administration of the Act has 
prevented its introduction up to the present. The author regards 
the indirect benefits as being very important, since consignors of 
fruit are careful only to send clean fruit, knowing that it will be 
condemned if the slightest trace of disease appears. 
As showing the effective working of the Act dealing with 
diseased orchards, the author points to the eradication of the San 
José scale. This Act is also indirectly beneficial, as the orchardists 
and farmers are induced to learn something about these pests, and 
in most cases to purchase a spraying outfit. 
The author then describes a few of the commoner pests in 
West Australia, and the orchard pests. The most abundant are the 
scale insects and aphides, the number of scale insects which are 
destructive being very small in W.A., although other scales are ~ 
abundant. A large number of destructive species have been 
stopped at the ports, and their introduction has to be guarded 
against. 
The absence of the codlin moth is a fact on which the colony 
prides itself, but the fruit-fly is very prevalent. The author 
points out that the W.A. fruit-fly differs from the two species 
found in N.S.W., and there is some difficulty in locating its 
original home. Mr. Fuller inclines to the belief that it has come 
to W A. from the Mediterranean. He then gives a few observa- 
tions concerning this pest and its distribution in W.A., and 
describes some experiments he has made in order to combat it. 
These included spraying with a mixture containing kerosene soap 
and tar-oil, and placing commercial sticky fly-papers on and about 
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