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THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



Fig. 



64. — A fig leaf infested with the Mediterranean Fig Scale, 

 Lepidosaphes ficits. (Original.) 



INSECT NOTES. 



Tlie attention of tile county horticultural commissioners is called to 

 the two following 1 interesting and important insect notes by Doctor 

 Edwin C. Van Dyke and Mr. Harry S. Smith. 



Editor. 



A NEWLY INTRODUCED CLOVER BEETLE. 



Sitones hispidulus Germ. 

 By Edwin C. Van Dyke, University of California. 



On May 2 of this year I captured some thirty or more recently 

 emerged specimens of this weevil crawling up the side of my house. 

 They had no doubt developed at the expense of the white clover in my 

 near-by lawn and were proceeding to migrate. Inasmuch as this is the 

 first time that this European clover beetle has ever been observed in 

 this state, and since it has already become somewhat widely dispersed 

 and may prove to do some damage, it seems well that it should be made 

 known. 



