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Viatica^ at Piinduloya, India*, and Mr. W. M. Maskell received it on 

 Geranium from Hong Kong f. Mr. D. W. Coquillett found it at Los 

 Angeles, California, on dwarf flowering almond, recently imported from 

 Japan |, and the case on dwarf peach and cherry, previously noted, also 

 occurred on trees from Japan. Dr. L. O. Howard reported it some 

 years ago as occurring in an orchard at Molino, Florida, and in another 

 orchard at Bainbridge, Georgia. It was first discovered in this country 

 on some seedling peach trees on the grounds of the Department of 

 Agriculture, at Washington, in 1892. Besides inhabiting Jamaica, it is 

 also found in Trinidad, Martinique, Grand Cayman, Barbadoes and San 

 Domingo. § 



Under the caption of "■ The White Peach Scale," Mr. Charles P. 

 Lounsbury, Government Entomologist for Cape Colony, South Africa, 

 includes the species as one of the insect pests of that Colony. He gives 

 the Fiji Islands as an additional habitat, and states that there is no 

 doubt but that it has been in South Africa for at least fifteen years, and 

 good reasons for believing it to have been there double that length of 

 time. Mr. Lounsbury characterizes the insect as a highly injurious one, 

 the favourite food plants of which are the peach and mulberry, the apricot 

 and plum being severely attacked and sometimes killed, the cherry being 

 liable to be severely attacked, while the pear has been slightly infested. 

 Myoporuin iiisulare. Yellow Jessamine, Jasini7ium sp. ? Granadilla, 

 Passiflora eduiis, Polygala inyrtifolia, Morning Glory, Ipomcea sp. ? 

 Fuchsias and Geraniums all may become very badly infested, while the 

 Cape Gooseberry and other Solanaceous plants suffer to a less degree. 1| 



Four species of Lady beetles and a Chalcid fly, the latter apparently 

 identical with Aspidiotophagus citrifius, Craw., attack the species in 

 Africa. None of these parasites, however, seem powerful enough to hold 

 the scale insect in check. 



In October two of the most seriously infested of the trees imported 

 from Japan into Ohio were dug and transplanted to the Insectary of the 

 Experiment Station at Wooster, and one of them enclosed in a breeding 

 cage. Early in December a very minute parasite was reared, and the 



* Indian Museum Notes, Vol. IV,, p. 4, 1895. 



t Trans. New Zealand Inst., 1896, p. 299, 



J Insect Life, VI., p, 290. 



§ Year Book of the U. S. Dept. Agr., 1894, pp. 265-267. 



il Report of the Government Entomologist for the year 1896, Cape of Good 

 Hope, pp. 'jb~2>T,. 



