The Scolia Wasp
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Letter to the Editor
IT may interest your readers to know that in 1933 I sent to the authorities in Samoa a full translation of an article from a French agricultural maga zine, describing in detail the action of the Scolia wasp in relation to Rhino ceros beetle larvae. The origin of this particular wasp was given as Madagascar.
I had no acknowledgment from any source of the information I supplied hav ing been received; but I am pleased to learn now that something was done with this remarkable insect—although it was, seemingly, necessary to wait another six years, and for the stimulation of an en tomologist from a nearby Colony.
I think your readers would be interested in a description of the action of this valuable insect in combating the scourge of the Rhinoceros beetle. Perhaps some correspondent better able than I will move into the breach.
I am, etc.,
Massingham Folkard.
Suva, 26/11/45.
Mr. J. H. L. McGuigan, who was liberated from a POW camp in Singapore in September, is now back in Australia, and has received his discharge from the AIF. He expects to return to the New Guinea Administration Service in 1946.
Mr. and Mrs. McGuigan are residing at 150 The Esplanade, Middle Brighton, Vic toria.