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know'8 the insects are on tlie roots of his trees, where they hibernate as well as on the ;branches, 

 and he at once conc^hules that he shonld first strike at the ' roof of the trouble : whereas the 

 man who knows notliing of the subject, and probably cares little either, proceeds to lament, and 

 not infrequently wiuds up by i[uitc uiuiecessarily chiipjiiuii- nut liis trees. ( )f late years great 



attention has been given to spraying the trees with various iusecticides, and nowadays a good 

 spraying gear is a part and parcel of every well-regulated (_ircluird, farm, or vineyard. It has 

 been estimated that for Oodlm Moth a.lone no less than 70 jier cent, of fruit has been saved by 

 timely application of the arsenites, as Paris green, which should be used in a proportion of 1 lb. 

 to from 150 to 200 gallons of water. For full iustructions, see Parts I. and II. of Handbook 

 of the Destructive Insects of Victoria, issued by the Victorian Department of Agriculture." 



The following exhibits are well worthy of inspection : — 



Case No. 1. Australian wood borers, &c., species — Buprestis beetles and other families. 

 Australian wood borers — Lougicoru and Buprestis beetles. 

 Australian borers and leaf feeding beetles — Various families. 

 Australian wood boring beetles — Longicorus. 

 Habitations of various kinds of economic iusects. 

 Dissections of external parts of insects with key to the same, prepared 



for the use of schools under the direction of 0. French, F.L.S., 



Government Entomologist of Victoria. 

 Specimeus of various insect pests, as — Scale insects, apple aud rose 



Ijlight, &c., collected near Melbourne ; many of the specimens doubtless 



introduced from Europe. 

 Australian Lepidoptera Moths and Butterflies, the larvre of which are 



destructive to vines. 



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