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omnivorous, are annoying, disgusting and troublesome, but still 

 they don't bite the eyelashes off sleeping children here as they 

 do in parts of Brazil, and that is something in their favour. 



The Case of Stephanitis pyrioides. 



It's a long distance from "cherry blossom" land to New 

 Jersey, but the embryonic children of Pyrioides managed to make 

 the trip in safety. Stephanitis pyrioides lived contentedly in 

 Japan, on an azalea, sipping the sap now and ' t^ien, watching 

 over her brood, and taking pride in her beautiful, lace-like gauzy 

 wings. Knowing upon the approach of cold weather, that she 

 could not hope to live much longer, she carefully deposited in the 

 leaves of the plant, close to the mid-ribs, tiny, oval eggs and then 

 died contentedly. If this plant had only remained in Japan, all 

 would have been well. But, there arose'in New Jersey, a demand 

 for Japanese azaleas, a demand which had to be supplied and so 

 over the Pacific ocean, over the continent of North America, came 

 the azaleas and the unborn children of Stephanitis . The inspec- 

 tor was on the watch for these plants and looked carefuUy over 

 each one, but how was he to know of the tiny eggs hidden in the 

 leaf tissue so effectually and not discoverable without a high- 

 power microscope. He carried only a pocket lens, moreover he 

 couldn't begin to pick off every leaf and tear it apart to see if any- 

 thing was inside. The plants looked all right and so they were 

 admitted. 



And so the babies of Stephanitis grew up in New Jersey in- 

 stead of Japan. Needless to say, they increased numerically to 

 such an extent and made such a pest of themselves by sucking 

 the sap out of nice, green, azalea leaves, that many owners of 

 Japanese azaleas are forced every year to go through their gardens 

 and squirt stuff on them- with a little brass gun. 



The Case of Cholus forbesii. 



(PI. XIV, fig. 3). 



There lived in the tropical forests of Colombia, an attractive 

 black and white-marked creature, which prowled around, sinking 

 its beak into the leaves and bulbs of wild orchids growing on the 

 trunks of trees, living a care-free life, unknown and unhonoured. 



