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tosporum in pots. Large numbers of Icerya were placed in this, and 
such larvee as were found feeding upon them, including some of a Scym- 
nus* (Fig. 5), only occasionally found with Icerya, yet very abundant on 
various Eucalyptus scales, especially on Eriococecus 
eucalypti. Of this I sent large numbers to California 
in my later shipments, as they were easily collected 
by the hundreds under bark of Eucalyptus infested 
with this EHriococcus. Mr. F. M. Webster brought 
me the same insect in numbers from Tasmania, to- 
gether with the Hriococcus on Eucalyptus. The 
Fic. 5.—Khizobius ventra- object of this was to have the Lestophonus go on 
lis Er.—enlarged (orig- Z es # 
inal). breeding within the case during the voyage. No 
doubt many infested scales arrived in Los Angeles. 
I found on examining the tree, on April 12, 1889, under which this 
case had been placed with a tent overit, that from several of the Iceryas. 
the Lestophonus had issued. This case, as Mr. Coquillett informed me 
in letter of November 30, arrived in good condition, except that the 
putty had been knocked off in several places, leaving holes large enough 
for the parasites to escape. Before opening the case he found two coc- 
cinellid larve crawling on the outside, and these when placed with 
the Icerya attacked it at once. He further said that there were only 
about half a dozen living Chrysopa adults. This would show thatthe 
Lestophonus was still issuing on arrival in California and all turned out 
more favorably than I had anticipated on seeing the box handled in 
such a rough manner by the steamer hands at Sydney, to which point 
I accompanied this as wellas allthe subsequent shipments. I expected 
little good would come out of this method of sending and therefore con- 
cluded to send only small parcels on ice thereafter, as had been partly 
done at first. If once the insects could be placed in good condition in 
the ice-house on the steamer just before leaving, where a temperature 
of 38° Fah. at first and about 46° Fah. on arrival in San Francisco 
existed, they must arrive safely. To accomplish this, the parasites with 
their hosts were all collected the last three days before leaving Ade- 
laide, and on arriving home were immediately placed in a cool cellar. 
On the trip from Adelaide to Sydney, which takes two days by train, 
my insects came generally in an ice-box on the sleeping-car. 
On November 2 I made a trip to Gordon, 11 miles north of Sydney, 
Mr. James Harold, agricultural reporter of the Town and Country 
Journal, Sydney, having furnished me with the address of a prominent 
fruit-grower there. Mr. Harold has traveled much over Australia 
gathering information for his paper, yet, as he assured me, he never met 
with an Icerya. The same answer was received from the gentleman at 
Gordon, who has been living in the colony for thirty-four years and has 
raised oranges for thirty-two years. He knew only the three scales upon_ 
* Dr. Sharp described this as Scymnus restitutor (Insect Life, I, 364), but has since 
written us that it is identical with Rhizobius ventralis Er., of the Munich catalogue. 
He states, however, that it belongs rather to Scymnus than to Rhizobius. 
