Vol. I, No. 12.] INSECT LIFE. [June, 1NS5). 



SPECIAL NOTES. 



Australian Entomology — We are pleased to notice that the Garden and 

 i^/e?^, published monthly at Adelaide, is devoting more and more space to 

 pure and ai^plied science. Mr. J. G. O. Tupper is contributing a series of 

 articles under the caption " Common Xative Insects," and usuall^^ occu- 

 pies all of the first page of this octavo journal. He gives popular de- 

 >-criptions of these insects, and names their habits. 



The second page is usually occupied by Mr. Frazer S. Crawford, under 

 the department heading "ilTotes on Garden Pests, etc., during the 

 Month," and the third page is devoted to the reports of the meetings of 

 the microscopical section of the Royal Society of South Australia. 



In the April number Mr. Crawford occupies considerable space in a 

 consideration of the statement by Mr. Skuse to the effect that the Les- 

 tophonus on Icerya and Monophloebus is divisible into two species, and 

 concerning which we have already published an article by Dr. Willis- 

 ton in ]N"o. 11 of Insect Life. It seems that ]Mr. Skuse is now engaged 

 upon a monograph of the Australian Diptera. 



Mr. Crawford also devotes some space to a consideration of the Oys- 

 ter-shell Bark-louse of the Apple {Mijtilaspispomonim), which it seems is 

 abundant in certain sections of Australia. He also attacks our remark 

 in ^o. 7 of Insect Life (page 230) in which we expressed ourselves 

 as being a little incredulous concerning his statement that infested 

 leaves fall from the effects of an application of the resin-soap solution, 

 while healthy leaves are not affected. Our incredulity was based upon 

 our own experience, which is to the effect that healthy leaves are 

 quite as badly damaged by most insecticide s as leaves infested with 

 scales. 



The proposed Entomologists' Union.— As we have previously Stated, the 

 replies to oar request for expressions of opinion in regard to the pro- 

 posed general organization of economic entomologists have not been 

 numerous up to date, but those which we have received have expressed 

 so much enthusiasm in the plan that it begins to look like a matter of 

 ultimate accomplishment. Mr. James Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist 

 and president of the Entomological Club of the American Association 



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