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ae Reporting on the large-scale bait-trap experiment, Mr. Steiner 
says: "In 1,700 record traps in the large area only 330 oriental fruit 
noths were captured during July as compared to 220 captured during June. 
In 60 traps located in three widely separated check orchards the adult 
catch for June and July was 640 and 152 respectively. * * * During July 
“approximately 1,700 second—brood moths were captured by the 2,400 ex-— 
perimental bait traps. These traps captured over 1,500 first—brood 
adults during June. Oriental fruit moth injury is almost impossible to 
find in this orchard," 
a H. G. Butler, Harriman, Tenn., states that "over 300 parasites 
reared from field-collected oriental fruit moth larvae have been ob- 
tained during the past month. These are largely Macrocentrus delicatus, 
but a few specimens, as yet unidentified, are thought to be unrecorded 
) from this district. During the past month there has been a considerable 
_ increase in degree of parasitism found in field-collected larvae. Macro 
centrus ancylivorus has been recovered in an orchard in which this spe- 
cies was liberated last year." The experiment, carried on by J. L. 
Gardiner, in the recovery of marked moths is yielding better results fol- 
( towing the use of certain new dyes supplied by Mr. Steiner. "The best 
recovery obtained up to the present time is 67 per cent of the moths lib- 
erated between July 20 and July 23. This work is seriously hindered by 
_ the lack of a sufficiently large number of dyes having sharp enough colors 
i to permit of rapid and positive identification of the marked moths." 
R. W. Burrell has submitted (July, 1931) an extended report on 
‘ _ parasitism of Laspeyresia molesta in Australia, summarizing peach growing 
in Australia and parasitism, and giving detailed records of his findings 
and collections of different parasites. He discusses in some detail five 
‘important parasites, three of which, Gambrus stokesii Cam., Stomatoceras 
 pomoneliae Cam., and Goniozus antipodium Westw., he is pera cepa for in- 
_ troduction into the United States. Under "General Conclusions," he says: 
T° is little damage done by L. molesta in the areas of Australia 
where it has been present a number of years. The parasitism percentages 
results of one season's work hardly justify the belief that this condi- 
Bion is due to natural parasitism, but parasitism has been considered to 
xf ‘be the reason, and there does not seem to be any other way of accounting 
Poirot the lack of damage." At another point he states that "the crop dam- 
age in the Sydney area has been very light over the past ten years, and 
was similarly light last season," and that he "can not find any satisfac— 
Betory explanation of this in any of the orchard management practices prev— 
— alent here." He states also that "damage over all the Sydney orcharding 
district for the past season was estimated by the Fruit Inspectors at 
between 5 and 8 per cent for peaches and nectarines." In the special 
_ discussion of parasitism and the relative merits of the parasites in- 
volved, he indicates that the total parasitism found amounts LoL he peE 
cent. 
The fourth, fifth, and sixth shipments by G. J. Haeussler from 
southern Europe of larvae for parasite rearing and of cocoons of certain 
parasites of the oriental fruit moth have come through in satisfactory 
quantities and in good condition. The rate of parasitism of the larvae 
