1 Dzc., 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 403, 
The publications have been confined to reports, the additions to the Flora having 
been worked into the publication now being issued, or retained for the addendum of 
that work, which is now drawing toa close. There has also been published for the 
Lieutenant-Governor of New Guinea’s report a paper on some of the plants collected 
by His Excellency. This contained descriptions, notes, and plates of several economic 
plants which would have proved valuable to this State if introduced, and on 
this account I particularly desired that the papers should be published in 
the departmental journal. ‘This portion, however, will doubtless be -pub- 
lished in journals beyond Queensland, as I have secured a few copies for 
distribution to persons to whom it may prove of value. The progress made 
with the work on the “ Queensland Flora”? has, I am sorry to say, been rather 
slow. Some idea may be gathered of the arduousness of the work when I state that 
I and my assistant have freely given up, ever since the work was commenced, twenty 
hours a week overtime to its preparation at no cost to the State. The late Mr. 
Chataway had, some time prior to becoming Minister for Agriculture, urged me to 
prepare as full and complete a work as possible upon the flora of Queensland; and 
uring 2 conversation after he became Minister he again referred to the subject and 
asked me to write him a letter stating the number of pages I contemplated 1t would 
occupy, ang also the length of time the preparation and printing would take. In 
answer to this, I stated that I considered six parts of 250 pagés each would hold the 
matter, and I hoped that it could be completed in two years. As I had contemplated 
‘for years publishing such a work, I, as a matter of course, had a great deal of 
minalaberieriimmsastters a by me, but nothing so arranged that I could speak positively 
as to the time it would take to complete or the number of pages it would occupy, so 
my statement as to the size of the work and the time could only be understood as 
approximate. Now I find the time taken to be three years and the number of 
pages in each part much more than anticipated, one containing 400 pages and the 
others all exceeding 300 pages. 
During the year my assistant has paid weekly visits to the Agricultural College 
in connection with the lectures on botany. 
F. MANSON BAILEY, Colonial Botanist. 
REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST AND VEGETABLE PATHOLOGIST. 
Vistrors.—As has been the case in previous years, personal application at the 
office on the part of the public (the visitors referred to submitting questions 
pertaining to plant-pathology and agronomic entomology) have been both frequent 
and concerned with matters of much economic interest. 
CORRESPONDENCE AND REPORTS. 
Economic Enromonocy. 
Tn addition to questions raised and dealt with as the outcome of personal applica- 
tion on the part of the public, the following, amongst other subjects, have formed 
matters for ieee and report :— 
AppLES.—Parlatoria Scale Insect (Parlatoria proteus, Curt.), Brisbane; Pale 
Circular Scale Insect (Aspidiotus latanie, Sign.), Brisbane; Fruit-fly Maggot 
(Lephritis Truoni, Frogt.), Brisbane; Pernicious Scale Insect (Aspidioius perniciusus, 
Comst.), Wellington Point. ; 
Drcipvous Fruir Trers—Prum.—Pernicious Scale Insect (Aspidiotus 
perniciosus, Comst.), Toowoomba; Pernicious Scale Insect, Blackall Range District. 
Cirracrous Frurr Trees.—Bronze Tree-bug (Oncoscelis sulciventris, Stal.), 
Boonah; Green Vree-bug (biprorulus bibax, Breddin), Indooroopilly; Black Aphis 
(Siphonophora [citrifolii|?), Bowen; Fulvous Mussel Scale Insect (Mytilaspis fulva, 
Tare.), Brisbane and Rosewood; Glover’s Mussel Scale Insect (AZ. Gioveri, Pack), 
Cardwell; White Scale Insect (Chionaspis citri, Comst.), Cardwell, Bowen, and 
Rosewood; Pale Circular Scale Insect (Aspidiotus latanic, Sign.), Cardwell; Soft 
Brown Seale Insect (Lecanium filicum, Boisd.), Rosewood ; Soft Brown Scale Insect 
(ZL. sp.), Jimbour; Circular Red Scale Insect (Aspidiotus aurantii, Mask.), 
Rosewood, &c.; Bark-eating Beetles, including Green Symphyletes (Symphyletes 
migrovirens, Don., Leptops sp:, Cryplorhynchus sp.,and Orthurrhinus cylindrirostrts, 
Fabr.), Blackall Ranges; Root-bormg Weevil (Orthorrhinus cylindrirostris, Fabr.), 
Brisbane; Leaf-eating Weevil (Prosayle phytoluma, Olf.), Mount Cotton; Stem- 
boring Beetle (2 Uracanthus cryptophagus, Olf.), Goondiwindi; Fruit- boring 
