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The male scale is also elongate, yellow or brown in color except 

 the smgle molt skin which is black. 



This insect is conrmon on citrus plants and fruit in the coun- 

 tries bordering on the Mediterranean sea, whence it is supposed 10 

 have been distributed to other citrus growing countries in ili-^ 

 world. It is also common in the Orient whence it must have 

 reached these islands. Now that the inlportation of citrus fruils 

 from the Orient into these islands is prohibited, very little of the 

 pest reaches this country, and none alive, since all infested fruu.s 

 and plants are either fumigated, destroyed or returned. 



NOTES. 



The price of camphor is at present remarkably high, and a 

 great extension of the planting of camphor trees is already in 

 progress in Ceylon and other countries. 



The artificial production of camphor has been rendered re- 

 munerative by the present price of the natural drug. A fall 

 in the market wbuld render the synthetic manufacture un- 

 profitable. 



The exports of rubber from Trinidad are rapidly increasing. 

 The prices obtained for Castilloa sheets average nearly one dollar 

 per pound. 



A rubber producing tuber has recently been discovered in 

 Portugal West Afiica. The tuber is turnip shaped and yields its 

 lac upon compression. Coagulation is produced by means of 

 alcehol. It is said that 180 pounds of rubber per acre can be 

 produced from this new source in two years. 



The unprecedented coffee harvest in Brazil this season has 

 rendered it necessary to withhold a proportion of the crops from 

 the market in order not to cause the ruin of many planters. 



The export of ostrich plumes from South Africa is valued at 

 about seven million dollars per annum. 



