994. 
A West Virginia Bulletin—Bulletin No. 21, of the West Virginia Agri- ; 
cultural Experiment Station, Morgantown, W. Va., is a joint production 
of Messrs. A. D. Hopkins, entomologist, and C. F. Millspaugh, botanist, 
and treats of injurious insects and plant diseases. It is a compilation 
of general methods recommended by the best authorities in this country 
for use against noxious insects and plant diseases, and contains brief 
directions for the preparation and use of all the better known insecti- 
cides and fungicides. 
Entomological Notes from Australia—Number 11, Volume I, of the 
Agricultural Gazette, of New South Wales, contains two entomological 
articles, the first entitled ““A new scale-insect destroying Saltbush,” 
and the other “‘ Notes on current Work,” both by Mr. A. Sidney Olliff, 
the recently appointed Government entomologist. The new scale-insect 
is a Pulvinaria which Mr. Olliff hasnamed P. maskelli. The saltbushes 
are fodder plants of several genera, the species most affected being 
Rhagodia hastata and Atriplex nummularia. Several natural enemies 
of the scale-insect have been found, and as a remedy it is advised to cut 
down and burn infested plants before the eggs have hatched. After 
the hatching of the eggs, spraying with dilute kerosene emulsion is 
recommended. 
Under the head of ‘‘ Notes on Current Work” the damage done by 
Lecanium hesperidum to the Pepper Tree, particularly from the subse- 
quent smut fungi, is mentioned and a bark-boring beetle (Bostrychus 
jesuita) is recorded as boring in pepper and white cedar trees. The 
Orange Rust Mite is also said to occur in numbers at Kurrajong. - 
Miss Ormerod’s Fifteenth Report.“—We have just received from Miss 
Eleanor A. Ormerod, honorary consulting entomologist of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England, her fifteenth report upon observations 
of injurious insects and common farm pests. This report fully sustains 
the reputation of the series. It comprises 168 pages and is illustrated 
by numerous text figures. A number of British crop pests are treated, 
very few of which occur in this country. One of the most interesting 
articles is that upon the Apple Saw-fly (Hoplocampa testudinea ?). The 
larvee of this insect work in a particularly destructive way, boring into 
the very young fruit. In the orchards attacked the quantity of fruit 
destroyed was very great, and Miss Ormerod is of the opinion that 
this insect does considerable damage, for which the Codling Moth is 
“ Report of Observations of Injurious Insects and Common Farm Pests, with Spe- 
cial Report on Attack of Caterpillars of the Diamond-back Moth, during the year 
1891, with Methods of Prevention and Remedy. Fifteenth Report. By Eleanor A. 
Ormerod, F. R. Met. Soc., ete. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. 
Limited. 1892. 18 pence. 
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