Annotated Bibliography of Diamondback Moth - part

General
of the control measures updertaken during 1919. The pests
dealt with include: The cabbage fly (Phorbia brassicae Bch.),
Phaedon rochl1ai-aine F., the cabbage aphid (Brevicoryne brassicae
L. ) , Barathra brassicae L. , Euxon (Agrotis) nigricans
L. , the cabbage moth (Plutel In macuLipennis Curt.), and the
onion fly (Ilylemyin antiq:,a Meig. ). [RAE1
0023. Bourne, B. A. 1921. Report of the assistant director of
agriculture on the entomological ard mycological work carried
out (luring the season under review. Rep. Dep. Agric. 1919­
20, Barbados, pp. 10-31.
The insects identified during the year included: the
Ch3Lcid, tuplectrus furnius Wlk., bred from larvae of Protoparce
cingulata; the Tenebrionid, Alphitobius piceus 01., on
cotton seed from Venezuela; agrromyza sp. , mining leaves of
cowpeas; the lepidoptera, Perigei albigera, attacking chrysanthomum
leaves; and Pluteila maculipennis on cabbage; and
the Ja-sid, Rftla ilutha sp., on maize. [RAE]
0024. Box, H. E. 1928. Report for 1927 of the Department of
Entomology of the Tucuman Agricultural Experiment Station.
Rev. Ind. Agric. 17:162-172.
D4ia tr e sacchira I is F., is the chief pest of sugarcane
in the province of Tucuman, Argent. ina. Its natural enemies
and the infloe.nce on it of diff'erent varieties of cane
are discussed. Another moth-borer, KlasmopalIpus lignosellus
Zel I. , occurs throughout. t e province, sometimes doing cons
iderab Ie damage . Trionymus ( Psoudo-ocrtes) sarchari Ck 11 .
was an important. pest. of cane in 1927. C it. rus was attacked
by the aphid, To.voptera aurtintii Boy., and the Coccids, Lepidosaphes
beck.i i Newm. , (7hrysomphilus fius Ashm. ( aonidum
Auct. ), C. dict.vospermi Mask., C. minor Berl., and Pinnaspis
(Ilemi rhi onasp is) aspidistrae Sign. Cotton pests included Alabhma
11-rilll r fie Hb. and Aphis goss.ypii Glov. The Membracid,
Corcs; htrunnicornis Fa i rm. was the only pest of lucerne observed
in abundance. Cabbages were infested by Plutella ma­
culipennis (urt. [RAE]
0025. hremcr', It. 1910. Quant i tati ve observat ions on the occurrence
of damage, t.o vegetables in experimental fields of the
Ascheirs ,I[,,n ,, irnwh of' the National Institute for Agriculture
an For,st. du inrig 1925 to 19th. Z. Pfla ze ki. 50:71-84.
(in German).
An at tempt ts made to corre ttlate incidence of disease
and injurious ins,.r,:t s with eate r. The data are admittedly
incomplete and Iac k i t ' rmi t v. The present paper is devoted
t, o cabbage. C I ub coot ( 1'I ismod i ophora brassicae) was never
obseorv(,!d in the research field at Aschersleben, at though
experiments with infested soil wiore carried on in the greenhouseP
and the" spores probab ly were c:arri ed on ,to the f ield.
The disease does not occur in the Aschersleben Magdeburg region.
The soil is loess, and contains 12 25%g CaCO3. Although
such soil has long be-n known to be free of club root,
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