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INSECTS INFESTING ORANGE TREES, ETC. 



condition, were dead and shrunken when I examined the vines 

 in the month of February following. 



It is generally conceded that this species is an inipDrtation 

 from Australia. 



Fiir. 12S. — Red Scale; l.a {\\\\i infested by these scales; Irf, 

 the male, highly magnified — colors, yellow and l)rown ; 1/j, the 

 female scale, greatly enlarged — colors, gray, yellowish or l)rown ; 

 Ic, the male scale greatly enlarged — color, same as the female 

 scale. 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



Female scale (Fig. 128, 16), nearly transparent, circular, of 

 a light-grayish color, and measures from one line to one and 



