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There is little to be said of the economic entomology of Naples 

 and vicinity. The Royale Scuola Superiore di Agricoltura, 

 at Portici, a suburb of Naples lying under the shadow of Mount 

 Vesuvius, was visited, but, unfortunately, both the well-known 

 entomologist, Professor Antonio Berlese, who holds the chair 

 of General and Applied Zoology, and his assistant, Dr. Leonardi, 

 were absent, the former for an indefinite period, so there was no 

 opportunity of adding to the writer's information by personal ac 

 quaintance or conversation with either of them. 



The school is housed in the old Royal Palace, built by Charles 

 III in 1738, and the somewhat neglected gardens and grounds 

 attached furnish limited means for experimental work. There 

 are comparatively few students. 



Attention has already been called to the freedom of the olive 

 and lemon groves, which abound along the Italian coast of this 

 region, from injury by scale-insects. 



An examination, also, of the fruit in the market, some of which 

 comes from near-by sources, and also from more southern districts 

 and from Sicily, failed to show any indication whatever of the 

 presence of scale-insects. In other words, the same immunity 

 from these pests was found at Naples which had been noted else 

 where. 



Of interest, perhaps, to our lemon and orange growers were 

 some of the incidents connected with our departure from Naples, 

 On boarding our ship, one of the German Lloyds liners, we 

 were delayed some hours by the loading of freight, which was 

 almost exclusively lemons and oranges nicely boxed, and con 

 spicuously labeled, "Queen of California," "Riverside," "Santa 

 Barbara," and other equally familiar names, recalling our Pacific 

 citrus districts. Much of this fruit, in fact most of it, was from 

 Sicily, and was being transhipped at Naples for the American 

 market. It included, among others, the " Naval " orange, which 

 is now being grown considerably in Sicily and Italy, and which, 

 as found in the markets of Naples, proved to be nearly, if not 

 quite, equal in flavor to the California product. 



Advantage was taken of the fact that the steamer touched at 

 Gibraltar, to drop off, between boats, and spend a week in explor 

 ing southern Spain. From the standpoint of the entomologist, 

 and especially for the writer, this region proved to be peculiarly 



