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proved to be Chalcoela aurifera. The observation is not a new one, but 
is recorded here because in this c.ase it takes on economic importance. 
Judge Johnson writes that young- wasps form the best perch bait, and 
their destruction by the Chalcoela thus interferes with an industry 
which, anglers will admit, is already attended with many drawbacks. 
LEEWARD ISLANDS ENTOMOLOGY. 
Elsewhere in this number we publish a list of the Coccida) collected 
personally by Mr. 0. A. Barber, superintendent of agriculture of the 
Leeward Islands, and we have now to 'acknowledge briefly the receipt 
of two interesting publications from his department. Mr. Barber has 
interested himself very greatly in the subject of the insect pests of the 
different islands of the Leeward group, and is doing excellent work. 
He publishes in the supplement of the Leew r ard Islands Gazette, which 
appears to be issued every Thursday. On June 22 a note appeared 
concerning the destruction of the coffee scale by fungus in Montserrat. 
The fungus has not been determined, but Mr. Barber is making efforts 
to introduce it into the island of Antigua. The supplement for June 
29 contains a long report upon an outbreak of the shot borer of the 
sugar cane in the island of St. Christopher. Mr. Barber has recently 
investigated the outbreak very thoroughly, and his account, which 
covers fifteen pages of the Gazette, contains reprints of his circulars of 
information and his conclusions from his observations. The interest- 
ing fact is noted that the area of cultivation of Jamaica cane is the area 
of immunity from the shot borer. The principal recommendations of 
Mr. Blandford are indorsed. 
AUSTRALIAN SUGAR-CANE INSECTS. 
On pages 385-389 of vol. iv, Insect Life, we published an article 
by Mr. Koebele on sugar-cane insects in New South Wales. The arti- 
cle was based upon observations made by Mr. Koebele in January, 1891, 
in the fields of the Colonial Sugar Company, from the Clarence to the 
Tweed Biver in New South Wales. The insects considered were (1) the 
larva of a Noctuid ; (2) Scaraba4d larvae ; and (3) Wire-worms, or Dia- 
brotica larvae. None of the insects were mentioned by name. In the 
Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, part 5 of vol. IV, May, 1893, 
Mr. A. S. Olliff publishes a report on the insects affecting the sugar- 
cane crop on the Clarence Biver. In this report Mr. Olliff treats of the 
damage done by insects and gives technical descriptions of the species 
observed, accompanying the article with a full-page plate. The unde- 
termined Noctuid mentioned by Mr. Koebele is described by Mr. Olliff 
as Nonagria exitiosa n. sp. Its parasites are described as Apanteles 
nonagrue and Euplectus hoivardi. The different stages of Crypt amor plia 
ilesjardinsii Guerin and of Brachypeplus binotatus Murr. are described, 
the former being a predatory beetle and the latter a fungus-eating spe- 
cies. The larva supposed by Mr. Koebele to be Diabrotica is considered 
