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Parapleurus alliacus Germ. (7); another grasshopper which attacks 
the rice plant. 
Sitodrepa panicea (cosmopolitan); very troublesome to stored food. 
(One specimen of Ptinus fur was found with the preceding. ) 
Tabanus sp.; attacking domestic animals. 
The Lepidoptera of this collection were examined by Rey. Dr. W. J. 
Holland, who has given us most of the names, and the two grasshop- 
pers were named by Professor Bruner. 
The publication of the list of scale insects found upon plants enter- 
ing the port of San Francisco, by Mr. Alexander Craw, quarantine 
officer and entomologist of the State Board of Horticulture of Cali- 
fornia, renders this bulletin far more complete than it could otherwise 
have been made, and Mr. Craw’s courtesy in furnishing this list is 
highly appreciated. The technical descriptions of new forms found by 
Mr. Craw have been drawn up by Professor Cockerell, to whom they 
were sent by Mr. Craw with the request that the manuscript be for- 
warded to this office for publication in this bulletin. 
The publication of these technical matters in the present shape is 
desirable, for the reason that it will place upon record facts and deserip- 
tions concerning the species mentioned which will enable an entomolo- 
gist to recognize any of the forms discussed, in case at any time they 
appear or establish themselves in any part of the country. Thus, if 
an injurious scale insect 1s brought to the attention of the entomologist 
of the Louisiana Experiment Station, for example, and he finds that it 
is new to his locality, he can probably, by consulting these pages, ascer- 
tain whether it was imported from Mexico or from some other point. 
Having ascertained that it is an importation, and perhaps a recent one, 
the necessity for exterminating, and not palliative remedial work, will 
be at once apparent. 
Further investigations of this character are, as stated above, very 
much to be desired. Results of more immediate value are, however, to 
be obtained on other lines of work, and the Entomologist has felt loath 
to recommend the spending in this direction of more than a very small 
part of the funds at his disposal. 
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