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mutilated and chewed up by cattle that they do not see the 

 light of many daj'S. 



ITLUPALAKUA, MAUT. 



The ranch of Dr. J. H. Raymond was the next center of at- 

 traction. Along the road to this place one could not help 

 being pained by the sight of thousands of ghosts of what were 

 once elegant native trees. The lantana belt, which was struck 

 in course of the descent, was interesting in that vast fields 

 of the plant were evidently dead, killed apparently by the 

 lantana scale. The entire area bore the characteristic black 

 appearance. The original owner of Ulupalakua evidently 

 lavished much money and thought upon the embellishment of 

 the neighborhood. It was delightful to see every hill top 

 crowned by forest trees. Perhaps the largest introduced 

 shade trees upon these Islands grow at Ulupalakua. The 

 numerous black wattles upon this place were found thickly 

 plastered with cottony cushion scale, so much so, that the 

 trees were actually dying from exhaustion. What was more 

 surprising was the fact that not a Vedalia was to be found 

 here, although a colony, I w^as informed, was released but a 

 short time previous. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Raymond, 

 a place some three miles away was visited, and a small legumin- 

 ous plant, useful I was told as a pasture, was found infested 

 with the same scale. The condition seemed serious enough to 

 warrant sending a wireless asking for a shipment of a series 

 of colonies of the ladybird. The manienie grass (Ci/nodoti 

 dactylon) was also found badly infested by an apparently 

 new species of mealy bug. 



HILO, OLA A, VOLCANO HOUSE AND KAU, HAWAII. 



I reached Hilo on the last of May towards evening, and 

 most of the next day was spent with Bro. Matthias, who had a 

 good deal of information to give on the economic insect fauna 

 of the district. It is perhaps needless to say that it rained 

 most of the time spent in the metropolis of the Big Island. 



The second and third of June was spent at Mountain View, 

 principally on the estate of Dr. Russel. During these two 

 days it rained there almost constantly so that little observation 



