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Diaspis lanatus Ckll. (Inst. Jam., 1892.) Chionaspis major Ckll. MS. in litt. olim. 
Heliotrope. Antigua. 
Ichnaspis pililbrmis Dougi. Sabal, etc. Antigua. 
Lecanium assimile Newst. var. amaryllidis Ckll. MS. = L. amaryllidis Ckll. in litt. 
olim. amaryllis. Antigua. 
Lecanium begonia; (Dougl.) = L. praternum Ckll. in litt. olim. terminalis. An- 
tigua, 
Lecanium depressum Targ.-Tozz. Hibiscus. Antigua, 
Lecanium heinisphericum Targ.-Tozz. General on all garden plants. Cycas. An- 
tigua, Montserrat. 
Lecanium longulus Douglas, 1887. Pigeon peas. Antigua. 
Lecanium ole;e Bern. Terminalis. Antigua, 
Mytilaspis citricola (Packard) Comstock. Tangerine. Antigua. 
Planclionia bambuste — Ckll. MS. Bamboos. Montserrat and Dominica. 
Planchonia pustulans Ckll. MS. 2 Asterodiaspis pustulans Ckll. Pigeon peas, 
Oleander, Custard Apple, perillea Mangoes. Montserrat, Antigua also in Anguilla. 
Vinsonia stellifera. Cudisia, Euferria malaccensis. Montserrat also in Antigua. 
ACTIVE GRASSHOPPER WORK. 
In June of the present season the people of Kern County, Cal., were 
threatened with a plague of the California Devastating Locust. Two 
sections of worthless mesa land were found to be full of grasshoppers 
and eggs. Familiar with the best methods to use against these insects, 
hopperdozers were at once constructed, and at a cost of $1.25 per acre 
the land was completely rid of the insects. 
THE PEACH MAGGOT FLY. 
The recent damage done to peaches in South Africa by Ceratitis citri- 
perda still occupies the attention of fruit growers in that colony. The 
Agricultural Journal of the department of agriculture at Cape Colony, 
in its issue of May 4, 1 893, publishes a very extensive article by Mr. S. 
D. Bairstow as a second instalment of his series of papers upon insect 
pests. Mr. Bairstow gives the life history of the species, and a lengthy 
series of correspondence with fruit growers in the infested regions, also 
two full-page plates devoted to illustrations of the different stages and 
enlarged parts of the insect. The two remedies consist in the collec- 
tion and destruction of the infested fruit and the " perpetual turning 
out of the pupae from the upper half spit of your orchard for such light 
infantry as fowls and turkeys." 
CRICKETS OF INDIANA. 
In the proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences for 1891, 
recently published, Mr. W. S. Blatchley presents a paper *on the Gryl- 
lidae of Indiana, which gives careful descriptions of the different species 
of this interesting family which inhabit the State. The paper is impor- 
tant for the reason that this group of insects has been almost entirely 
neglected by North American writers, and good descriptions of even 
the commoner forms have hitherto not been accessible. The descrip- 
