Annotated Bibliography of Diamondback Moth - part

General
ture. Rhod. Agric. J. 35:652-659.
In 1937, Bggrada hilairis flurm., Plute11a macu.lipenn.is
Curt., and Brevicoryne brassicae L., attacked crucifers in
Rhodesia. [RAE]
0075. Jacques, C. 1940. Insects harmful to plants and harvest.
in New Caledonia. Conservation of grain. Rev. Agric. Nouv.
Caledonie 1940, pp. 4121-4137. (in French).
This is a popular account of the principal pests of
crops and stored products in New Cal],donia and measures for
their control. The field pests for which scientific names are
given are Cosmopolites sordidus Germ. on banana, Brontispa
longissm Gestro ( froggatti Sharp) and Rhynchophorus sp. on
coconut, Plutelln maculipennis Curt. (cruc ifererum Zell.) on
cabbage, and a fruit-piercing moth of the genus Othreis.
[RAE]
0076. Jarvis, H. 1923. Fruit- fly investigations. Oueensl.
Agric. J. 19:369-371.
Dacus ferrugineus (tryoni) is distributed chiefly by
mechanical means such as the importation of infested fruit.
The advisability of subjecting such fruit to cold storage is
pointed out. Packing sheds may be a great source of fresh
infestation and should be carefully cleared of all rubbish,
the stored fruit being shifted at least once a week. Only one
individual was caught in traps placed in an uncleared strip
of bushland between two infested orchards, so that it is
concluded that either this fruit-fly does riot readily travel
under such circumntances or else does so high up in the air.
Lonchaea splendide (tomato fly) was abundant on this strip of
land, and numbers of it were captured in each trap. Other
injurious insects are a Buprestid, IDiadoxus sp., associated
with the dying of the leaders of ornamental cypress trees,
its native food-plant being block cypress pine (Cellitris
calcerate), and Plutelle maculipennis (crucifererum) (cabbage
moth), which has been causing serious injury to cabbages.
[RAE]
0077. Jones, T. If. 1915. Insects affecting vegetable crops in
Porto Rico. U.S.D.A. Bull. No. 192, 11 pp.
Of the lepidopters, Pieris Monusto, the southern cabbage
worm, feeds on cabbage, radish, turnip, kale and mustard;
Protoperce (Phiegethontius) sexte occurs on tomato and
tobacco; Lephygma frugigerda attacks maize and onions. This
species has several parasitic enemies, including the Tachinids,
Front ina archippivora, Gonia cressicornis and Archytas
piliventris, and the Chalcid, Chelonus insularjs; while the
Reduviid, Zelusrubidus, and the Carabids, C(losoma alternens
and C.ymindis mrginalis, are predaceous upon the larva.
Chloridea (Heliothis) obsolete, the corn ear worm, is an
important pest. Three species of Noctuid moths have been
recorded: Xylomyges eridenia, Prodenie ornithogalli and Feltie
annexa. Pechyzenc.1e bipunctalis, the beet worm, has been
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