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The different names that have been proposed for the Acanthia lectu- 

 laria, the insect which ^' has no wings at all,'' but which makes its 

 presence felt notwithstanding, will fill several pages. Around Boston 

 these torments are called '• chintzes" and '^ chinches," and from Balti- 

 more we get the name " mahogany flats," but in Xew York they speak 

 of them as '• red-coats." 



LEGISLATION AGAINST SPRAYING. 



We notice an item in Garden and Forest for December 7, 1892, to the 

 effect that the Ontario legislature passed an act at its last session for- 

 bidding the spraying or sprinkling of fruit trees while they are in bloom 

 with any mixture containing Paris green or other substance poisonous 

 or injurious to bees. This question has already received attention in 

 the pages of this journal, and at the last meeting of the Association of 

 Economic Entomologists a paper was read by Mr. E. M. Webster, which, 

 taken together with the discussion, failed to prove that bees are injured 

 by such spraying. Moreover, the legislation was hardly necessary, for 

 the reason that at present it is not considered desirable to spray the 

 fruit trees while in bloom in order to destroy any of our injurious in- 

 sects. 



AN EXHIBITION OF SPRAYING MACHINES. 



An important exhibition of spraying machines for the application of 

 Bordeaux mixture was held at Wevelghem, Belgium, the 21st of July, 

 1892. ;N"umerous exhibitors from Grermany, Switzerland, and Belgium 

 took part, France being represented by Messrs. Besnard, Duru, Japy, 

 Loumaigne, Yermorel, etc. The first prize, a medal of the ministry, 

 was awarded to the " Eclair " of M. Vermorel. The second and third 

 prizes went to Belgian exhibitors. 



ECONOMIC ENT03I0L0GY AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



We have frequently quoted in these pages from the Agricultural 

 Journal, published by the Department of Agriculture of the Cape 

 Colony, and it may be inferred from the frequency of our notes that 

 the farmers of South Africa are wide-awake to their own interests in 

 fighting injurious insects. Prof. P. MacOwan, although not a trained 

 entomologist, as he informs us in a recent letter, has been doing excel- 

 lent work in the way of giving advice to the farmers in the columns of 

 the Journal, and each number which has reached us of late has been 

 of increasing interest. The issue for December 29, 1892, contains 

 among other matter notes concerning the hatching of locusts in one of 

 the Pro vinces ; a lengthy review of the work done in Xorth Africa by 

 the French against migratory locusts; a letter upon the Orange Fruit- 

 worm {Ceratitis citriperda) and upon the Grape Phylloxera, which we 

 wrote at Prof. MacOwan's request; an editorial on the subject of pro- 

 tecting corn from weevils, in which a specially constructed air-tight 

 building is advised ; a letter on the value of hemp for preserving grain, 



