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An Attempt to introduce Scoliid Wasps from Madagascar to Mauritius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

D. D'emmerez De Charmoy
D. D'emmerez De Charmoy
Affiliation:
Assistant Director and Entomologist, Department of Agriculture, Mauritius.
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Attention was first directed to the Scoliid wasps of Madagascar in 1916, in which year it became clear that further attempts at importing Tiphia parallela from Barbados to Mauritius for the control of Phytalus smithi would have to be abandoned on account of difficulties of transport arising out of the war. The establishment of Tiphia in Mauritius shortly afterwards caused this question to lose its urgency, but in the meantime the attention of the writer had been attracted by a footnote in a paper by de Saussure* regarding Oryctes simiar and its natural enemy Scolia oryctophaga, the habits of which had been studied by Dr. Ch. Coquerel during his stay in Madagascar in the year 1850.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , November 1922 , pp. 245 - 254
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1922

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References

page 245 note * “Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar,” publiée par Alfred Grandidier; “Hist. Naturelle des Hymenoptères,” par H. de Saussure, PP. 188–192.

page 245 note † “ Osserv. sulle larve, ninfe e abitudini della Scolia flavifrons” (Pise, 1840) and”Continuazione delle osservazione l’anno 1841 sulle larve di Scolia flavifrons” (Firenze, 1841).

page 245 note ‡ “ Observations entomologiques sur des insectes recueillis à Madagascar, 4ème partie,” par Dr. Ch. Coquerel (Ann. Soc. Ent., France, (3) iii).

page 246 note * Annals of Applied Biology, ii, no. 1, May 1915.

page 246 note † Bull. Ent. Research, iii, pt. 1, Aug. 1917; reprinted in Bulletin form by the Department of Agriculture, Mauritius.