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California, while other species have been received from Baltimore, Md.; 
Glen Inglis, N. C.$ Joy, Pa.; and Xew York and Chicago. 
The ordinary cutworm remedies in such extraordinary cases must be 
largely abandoned and army- worm remedies substituted. 
THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH IN NEW YORK. 
It is strange, considering the ease with which the larvae of Ephestia 
kuehniella may be carried in flour and grain, that it has not spread all 
over the United States. Down to the present spring it was known to 
occur in injurious numbers only in Ontario and California. Mr. W. G. 
Johnson, of Champaign, 111., however, in the American Miller for May 
1, 1^95, records the receipt of specimens of this insect from a New 
York miller, with the statement that the mill had been obliged to shut 
down several times in order to clean out the elevator spouts and other 
machinery. The locality in New York is not given. It will pay all 
millers to use the most scrupulous cleanliness about their establish- 
ments, and to thoroughly steam or treat with bisulphide of carbon all 
bags, barrels, boxes, and second-hand machinery which may be brought 
into their mills. Mr. Johnson thinks that the substitution of metal for 
wooden spouts will also be a measure of great utility. The insect is a 
difficult one to fight, and the experience of Toronto and San Francisco 
millers should lead others engaged in this business in all parts of the 
country to keep a sharp lookout, for the pest. 
APPLES AND THE CODLING MOTH IN AUSTRALIA. 
Probably influenced by the successful exportation of apples from the 
United States to England, Australian colonies are beginning a similar 
export. From various districts in South Australia many hundreds of 
cases of apples will be sent to the London Produce Depot in 1895, the 
expense of shipment amounting to about 8 shillings per case. Many 
districts in South Australia are still uninfested by the codling moth, but 
in spite of the existence cf regulations forbidding the sale of affected 
fruits and the penalty of a fine not exceeding £50 for each offense, 
apples and pears, according to Mr. W. C. Grasby, of the Garden and 
Field (Adelaide), are freely sold at auction and in the markets and are 
distributed throughout the colony when they are badly infested by 
codling moth caterpillars. Recent fruit growers' meetings have passed 
resolutions calling the attention of the minister of agriculture to this 
fact, and recommending that full publicity be given to the regulations 
forbidding the sale of affected fruit, after which the regulations should 
be strictly enforced. 
THE GRAVE-DIGGER WASP AND ITS PARASITE. 
On page 376 of our last volume, it may be remembered, we gave some 
notes from one of our correspondents on a digger-wasp that provisioned 
its nest with cutworms and a parasite which follows the latter after they 
have been buried. 
