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others examined proved to have either larve or puparia within them ; 
none of the flies had at that time made their appearance. I attended 
the gardeners’ meeting at Adelaide on October 6, in order to get infor- 
mation as to the occurrence of Icerya, yet but very few of the gentlemen 
were acquainted with the insect. To show how rare Icerya is in South 
Australia, Mr. J. G. O. Tepper, of the museum at Adelaide, a qualified 
entomologist, who has collected insects all his life, has known Icerya 
only for the last two years. He never met before this with any speci- 
mens in all his collecting trips through South Australia. On October 
15 I made a trip with Messrs. Crawford and Tepper to North Adelaide, 
where some Icerya were said to exist; we found there in one garden a 
few orange and lemon trees with the scales, which were subsequently 
collected for shipment. In another garden, and also on orange, an oc- 
Fic. 2.—Vedalia cardinalis: a, full grown 1 rva; b, pupa, dorsal Fic. 3.—Vedalia cardi- 
view, inclosed ii: last larval skin; ¢, pupa, naked, ventral view— nalis, adult—enlarged 
all enlarged (after Riley). (after Riley). 
casional specinen was found. I discovered there, for the first time, 
feeding upon a large female Icerya, the Lady-bird, which will become 
famed in the United States— Vedalia cardinalis (Figs. 2 and 3). I called 
the attention of both the gentlemen to this in- 
sect, yet neither of them had ever seen it nor 
knew the beetle. Mr. Tepper has charge of a 
large collection of insects, and especially of Co- 
leoptera, at the South Australian Museum. Mr. 
Smith, the proprietor of the nursery, also called 
my attention to a beetle, a curculio, which is 
very destructive to olive-trees, eating the young 
shoots and leaves of the plants during the night 
and secreting itself in the ground during the 
day-time (Fig. 4).* 
Through the bureau of forestry at Adelaide I 
was informed that a colony of Icerya existed at 
. , Mannum, on the Murray River, and a trip to that 
df A mn place was made on October 18. In two gardens 
Fic. 4 ilies Sa a Icerya was present; in one of them they ex- 
E v4 isted on only a few of the many orange-trees, 
and none examined showed any parasites, while in the other on two 
*This is an Otiorbynchid unknown to us, and will have to be referred to a spe- 
cialist abroad.—C. V. R. 
