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Africa, visited me last summer, and, together, we perfected plans looking 

 to the transportation of large numbers of our native Ohio Coccinellidaj to 

 his country, with the hope of colonization there. It is but fair to say that 

 when my former assistant, Mr. C W. Mally, left me a year ago to take a 

 position as Mr. Lounsbury's assistant, we planned something of the sort 

 to be submitted to him by Mr. Mally after reaching Cape Colony, but 

 not then expecting to be able to complete the arrangement with Mr. 

 Lounsbury himself in Ohio. 



The first consignment consisted of several hundred individuals 

 belonging to the following species : Megilla maculata, Hippodamia 

 parenthesis, Cocinella g-notata, with scattering individuals of H. con- 

 verge/is and some C. sanguined. This consignment was forwarded about 

 the middle of October. Under date of November 14, 1900, Mr. Louns- 

 bury writes me from Cape Town as follows : It is my pleasant duty to 

 inform you how the Coccinellids arrived. The Coccinella g-notata 

 carried best, and fully nine-tenths of them were ready to feed. Hippo- 

 damia parenthesis carried next best, with say 20 per cent, mortality. 

 The Coccinella sanguinea were about half of them dead, and the Megilla 

 maculata about three-fourths dead. 



A considerable number of Pent ilia misella, a minute, black species, 

 which feeds on the San Jose scale, were collected about Mentor, Ohio, by 

 my assistants, and these were sent to Mr. Lounsbury at Boston, to be re- 

 shipped by him to South Africa. Most of these succumbed before reach- 

 ing Boston, and were all dead when received at Cape Town. On Octo- 

 ber 27, however, I sent a lot of some 800 individuals of this last species 

 to Cape Town direct, and a note from Mr. Lounsbury, dated December 

 4, informs me that the little fellows arrived in good shape, with lots of 

 live beetles, and enough to start a large colony. How successful we 

 shall be in getting these Lady beetles permanently established in their far- 

 off home remains yet to be learned. 



The beetles are collected and placed in a tin box without food, and 

 the box filled with bits of crumpled paper. The package is sent to a 

 gentleman in New York City, so as to reach him not later than Tuesday 

 morning. They are at once taken to the steamer and placed in a re- 

 frigerator, and the Colonial Agent in London informed of their arrival 

 when the steamer lands at Southampton, England. A messenger is at 

 once dispatched to Southampton and gets the package, and sees it placed 

 in the refrigerator of a steamer bound for Cape Town, where they are 

 promptly delivered to Mr. Lounsbury. 



