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ties near Melbourne. It appears about November, and is often to be 

 found in millions swarming over the trees attacked. Unfortunately, 

 during the last few years, it has forsaken its native food, and 

 is doing great damage to all kinds of fruit and garden plants, rosea 

 especially being destroyed. Not only are the young buds destroyed, 

 but the epidermis is completely eaten o£E the leaves ; rose bushes then look 



Fig. 7.— The Cherry Green Beetle {IHphucephala colaspidoides, Gyll.). 



Pig. 8. The Cottony cushion Scale ■h-i-niu I'linlnisi. .Mii>koll). 



as if a fire had scorched them. During the past season, these insects 

 have been playin.^ havoc with cherries, i>eacl.es, raspberries, and other 

 aman frmtr^on.ethnes they oc-cur in countless nun.l>ers in chez-ry 

 o cliards near Melbourne, and "are blown out to sea by the -rt ; -inds 

 and drowned. Large numbers are found on tl.o foreshores amund the 



