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on the subject of the Codling Moth. Mr. Olliff has given in a con- 

 densed form an account of the American observations on this insect, 

 and has introduced some local matter of interest. He shows that in 

 Sydney there are two, and probably three, annual generations. The 

 remedies recommended are, as in this country, Paris Green, and the 

 trap-bandage system. Eeference is made to the recent use of a large 

 number of lamp traps in orchards. Mr. Ollift's investigations, however, 

 have failed to show that any good is accomplished by the use of lights. 

 He states that he has had many opportunities of capturing moths at 

 lights in orchards, and while the Codling Moth could be taken freely 

 at dusk, on no occasion has he seen a single specimen of the pest 

 attracted by the lamp. '^Last season," he says, ^'Mr. P. C. L. Shep- 

 herd, who had been testing the usefulness of a lamp trap in an orchard 

 infested by the Codling Moth, brought me the contents of his trap, 

 and I found numbers of small Geometrina, Koctuina, and various Tor- 

 tricidai, but not a single specimen of the apple pest, and this is the 

 result that has attended the examination of the contents of each lauij) 

 that has been submitted to me." This is quite in accordance with 

 experience which we published over twenty years since in this country. 

 The full-page plate accompanying the bulletin represents two sections 

 of injured apples, some of tbe American natural enemies, the Codling 

 Moth itself, and Cacoecia ijostvittanaj an apple-feeding Tortricid which 

 is sometimes mistaken for the Codling Moth. 



Entomological News.— This periodical has lately made two innovations. 

 It has begun a special economic department, edited by Prof. J. B. 

 Smith, and no longer gives abstracts of the contents of foreign entomo- 

 logical journals, or of such only items as refer to American entomology. 

 As to the former department a better choice than Prof. Smith could 

 not have been made, though considering the large number of official 

 l>ublications, both State and national, more or less fully devoted to 

 applied entomology, the demand for private publication on the subject 

 cannot be pressing. The other innovation we regret and must view 

 as a retrogression ; for if there was one feature which made Entomo- 

 logical News unique and useful to all entomologists it was this biblio- 

 graphical department. Even those who have access to the larger 

 number of the entomological i)ublications of the world cannot examine 

 them all and a current statement of the contents of all in compact 

 form is invaluable. Such a department might well be made more, 

 rather than less complete, and would secure more subscribers than any 

 other feature. 



Kansas Injurious Insects— A handy pamphlet of some 125 pages has 

 just been published by the University of Kansas at Lawrence, entitled 

 " Common Injurious Insects of Kansas," by Yernon L. Kellogg. The 



