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States, but it is reasonable to suppose that many years may elapse before 

 natural enemies prey on it there to the extent that they now do here. 



That the insect is not an oasy one to contend against in the United 

 States may be inferred from the results obtained in the experiments 

 recorded by Dr. Howard. In this warm climate the Californian lime- 

 sulphur-salt wash will keep it in check if the wash is well made and 

 thoroughly applied, and fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas destroys 

 eggs and all other stages when one ounce of cyanide is used for each one 

 hundred and tifty cubic feet of enclosed space. Many suburban people 

 have all their stone-fruit trees protected by whitewashing them from the 

 ground to the tips of the twigs every winter. 



All in all. I consider that Diaspis amygdali is almost as much to be 

 feared in the peach orchard as Aspidiotns pernichsKs. The whiteness of 

 the scale renders the former easier of detection, it is true, but con- 

 spicuous as it is by reason of its colour, people here often unwittingly 

 infect nursery stock in the process of budding. American nurserymen 

 and fruit-growers are not, I feel sure, any the less likely to commit such 

 a blunder. The insect is fond of secreting itself behind buds on young 

 wood, and much of it is often to be found in such situations when the 

 twigs elsewhere are quite clean. 



STATE ENTOMOLOGIST OF NEW YORK. 



We beg to offer our hearty congratulations to Mr. M. V. Slinger- 

 land upon his appointment to the important position of Entomologist to 

 the State of New York. We may also congratulate the authorities of the 

 State upon having selected one so eminently fitted for the position. Mr. 

 Slingerland is a graduate of the College of Agriculture of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, and for the last eight years has been a member of the University 

 Experiment Station at Ithaca. In this capacity he has published a num- 

 ber of admirable bulletins on injurious insects, and a large number of 

 articles of a popular character on practical entomological subjects in 

 various agricultural papers. He has also contributed to this magazine 

 and to other scientific publications, many valuable papers of a more 

 technical character. He has thus proved himself to be thoroughly well 

 qualified to carry on the work at Albany, both in its scientific and practical 

 departments, in accordance with the high standard maintained by his 

 eminent predecessors, Drs. Asa Fitch and J. A. Lintner. 



