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able limits, the desirability of introducing it into America was very 

 evident. While in Japan I was unable to determine whether Mr. Albert 

 Koebele, in any of his numerous importations, had sent this lad3"bird 

 into California, but it seemed more than probable that he had done 

 so, and I wrote to Mr. Koebele, at Honolulu, H. I., and some months 

 later after I had made my shipments I received information from him 

 that he had sent a lot of material to Mr. Alexander Craw, and that 

 the latter had carried it through the winter successfully, but further 

 than that he knew nothing of it. It is possible that the material 

 introduced by Mr. Koebele has established itself in California. Since 

 my return from the Orient, and within a few days, I have learned 

 from Prof. J. B. Smith that he also had had some specimens of this 

 insect sent to him from Japan by one of his Japanese correspondents. 

 These were liberated at once in the fall in an infested apple orchard 

 in New Jersey and nothing has been seen of the insects since. Profes- 

 sor Smith believing that they perished. Judging from the small per- 

 centage of survivors of those which I imported, 1 think it very likely 

 that Professor Smith's specimens all died during the winter. 



As a preliminary experiment to determine the possibility of shipping 

 them across the ocean I collected, about the middle of August, a lot of 

 the beetles in North Japan on trees infested with San Jose scale and 

 carried them about with me in nn' travels for over two weeks in a tight 

 wooden box with some infested twigs as food. These beetles, kept 

 under conditions which certainly were not very favorable, being 

 among other goods in my baggage, and subject to much shaking, came 

 through the ordeal in perfect condition, and I shipped them to Wash- 

 ington with a lot of others collected, with the assistance of Mr. Hori, 

 about Tokyo. 



Three packages were sent about the middle of September, and of this 

 first sending some twenty odd specimens reached W^ashington in fairly 

 good condition, active, and apparently uninjured, and Mr. Kotinsky, 

 who was given the beetles in charge, from his records is able to say 

 definitely that it was individuals from this first sending that success- 

 fully overwintered. A sending two weeks later was made from speci- 

 mens collected about Yokohama and Tok}'©, together with a few taken 

 in the interior hill region. A third sending was made from material 

 collected about Tientsin and later at Shanghai, the specimens at Shanghai 

 being found feeding on the young of a wax scale on holly, the beetles 

 occurring there in considerable numbers. The distance from Shanghai 

 to America b}^ boat is a week or ten days longer than from Japan, and 

 six or seven weeks are required for their arrival at their destination 

 in Washington. The sendings from China were received in rather 

 poor condition, and Mr. Kotinsky assures me that all of the specimens 

 of this lot which were alive when received died during the winter. 



On leaving Japan 1 had made arrangements with the entomological 



