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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



science, and their deep sense of the loss which economic entomology in 

 this Province has sustained by his removal in the maturity of his powers 

 and at an age when he was capable of performing much useful work. 

 They beg to offer to Mrs. Panton and family their respectful sympathy in 

 the great bereavement which has befallen them." 



SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INSECT FAUNA 



OF OHIO.* 



BY F. M. WEBSTER, WOOSTER, OHIO. 



In the year 1889, Mr. Henry Tryon, Assistant Curator of the 

 Queensland, Australia, Museum, in a report on the insect and fungus 

 pests, published as report No. i, by the Department of Agriculture of 

 Queensland, pp. 89-91, describes a species of scale insect found on the 



Fig. 7. — DiasJ>is amygdali, Tryon : a, branch covered with male and female 

 scales, natural size ; b, female scale ; f, male scale ; d, group of 

 male scales, enlarged. (After Howard.) 



peach, as the White Scale, Diaspis amygdali (fig. 7), and reported its 

 occurrence both at Brisbane, Queensland, and Sydney, New South Wales. 

 Although described as the White Scale, the author continually refers to 

 it as the peach scale, in his paper, and the latter name has been adopted 

 in America for the species. Of its habits Mr. Tryon states that : " At 

 first its presence is betrayed by small white spots or patches on the bark 

 of the smaller branches ; but as the insect increases these soon become 

 * Read before the Ohio .State Academy of Science, December 29, 1897. 



