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was lost, still there was no particular evideoce in the growth of the 

 trees which I have in mind to show that such was the case, and u n- 

 less my memory deceives me the leaves did not fall before their 

 time. It often happened, particula/ly with nectarines, that every 

 leaf upon the tree would be affected. 



Judging from Johnson's note alone, I should never have con nected 

 his pest with the Western Australian mite, as similarly affected 

 nursery stock never came under my notice; but that the effect and 

 nature of the mites' attack upon young plants in the nursery and 

 vigorous growing trees might differ considerably I have little 

 doubt. It is from RolFs remark, however, to the effect that the 

 mite causes "what might be termed a silvering of the leaves "that 

 the possibility of the Western Australian pest being the same, oc- 

 <;urred to me. This mite was also well known to my then col- 

 leagues R. Hebns and A. M. Lea, and the latter has a short note 

 upon it in the Journal of the W. A. Bureau of Agriculture, (p. 

 1194, April 17, 1897,) in which he describes the affected leaves as 

 having a " glassy or silvery appeai'ance on their upper surfaces," 

 and correctly refers to this as due to the destruction of the surface 

 cells by the mite, and their subsequent drying out and bleaching. I 

 have only seen the peach, nectarine, almond and apricot so affected, 

 but Lea adds the plum, quince and apple. 



As far as I am awai'e this peach mite only occurs in the Swan 

 River district. Western Australia, as I have not seen it in New 

 South Wales nor the neighborhood of Melbourne or Adelaide, nor 

 has it been reported so far by others from the remaining colonies of 

 Australasia. Claude Fuller, F. E. S. 



Department of AoricuUure, 



Capetown, April 24, 1899. 



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Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS OF THE GLOBE. 



The Entomological Society of Albany has recently been organ- 

 ized with an initial membership of about twenty under the follow- 

 ing officers: Dr. E. P. Felt, President: Prof. Charles S. G.iger, 

 Vice President ; Mr. Charles S. Banks, Recording Secretary ; Miss 

 Margaret F. Boynton, Corresponding Secretary ; Prof. H. M. Pol- 

 losk, Treis. Tne h3aiquirt3rs of th3 Sj:5i3ty will be, for the 

 present, at the office of Dr. E. P. Felt, the State Entomologist, 

 w.here the regular meeting will be held the second Friday of each 

 month. The objects of the organization are the promotion of inter- 

 est in entomological science and the furtherance of fellowship 

 among those interested, tor their mutual benefit and enjoyment. 



Harvard University has this year conferred the degree of Doc- 

 tor of Science upon Justus W. Folsom, of Cambridge, Mass., for a 

 thesis entitled, " Studies Upon the Mout hparts of Apterygota." 



