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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1915 
This is one of the species which has retained the name 
originally given it in 1776 by Linnaeus, the great Swedish 
Naturalist, who invented the bi-nomial system of nomencla- 
ture, which is still in use. 
Previous to 1915, I had no personal knowledge of any 
parasites upon the species, and there is no mention of any in 
the Government leaflet. In the volume on Pests to Agri- 
culture in Mexico, published in 1904, S. Mokrzecki describes a 
new dipterous parasite Thryptocera [Gymnopareia] pomonellce 
bred from its pupae. Mr Claude Morley, F.E.S. (author of 
British Ichneumonidae) tells me that Glyphicnemis brevis 
[cf. Miss Ormerod’s Report 1896, p. 9) ; Ephialtes carhonarius 
(a very effectual check in California), and Pristomerus vul- 
nerator (Ich. Brit., vol. v., p. 223) are the only Ichneumonidae, 
recorded from it in Europe. Pimplon heliophila was first 
described from this pest in 1905 in Cape Colony, and is also 
known from Rhodesia and the Transvaal. Ratzeburg has 
also recorded Campoplex pomorum from it with considerable 
doubt in Germany in 1852. Doubtless there are also members 
of the other families of parasitic Hymenoptera that prey upon 
C. pomonella, but further observations are desirable because 
it is possible that by importing or encouraging a parasite its 
ravages may be checked. 
In a paper on the Codling Moth in North Western Penn- 
sylvania by A. G. Hammar, published in 1910 by United 
States Department of Agriculture, he says : — 
“A small black-beetle [Tenebrioides corticalis Melsh.) and its very slender 
larva were found during August to late October, 1909, under the burlap bands 
on apple trees. Dead and partly devoured Codling Moth larvae were fre- 
quently found attacked by both beetles and larvae of this species. Another 
black-beetle, Dromius piceus Dej . was also found quite frequently. Platynus 
obsoletus Say was taken on several occasions, and a few specimens of the 
larger ground beetle {Galerita jamts Fab.) were also collected under the bands. 
The following species of ants .... were found to attack the larva of the 
Codling Moth under the bands; — Camponotus pennsylvanianis (Dej.) Mayr., 
Formica subsericea Say, Cremastogaster lineolata Say and Myrmica lobicornis 
Nyl. 
“A centipede, Geophilits rubens Say. . . . was taken several times 
beneath the bands in the act of feeding on larvae of the Codling Moth. 
“ X\\ym.e\ioptero\\spdiXdi^ite {Ascogaster Carpocapsa Viu.) issued 
in the cages from band material of the two broods of the Codling Moth, and 
proved to be quite common.” 
In another paper by S. W. Foster, also published in 1910 
by the U.S.D.A., an interesting account of the nut-feeding 
