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with Mr. Britton, who informs me that the aole bases for this supposi- 

 tion were(l) That the scale first became epidemic in the orchard of the 

 hite Mr. Lick, and first spread to those orchards which had communi- 

 cation witli his orchard; and (2) that Mr. Liclv was an energetic 

 importer of trees and shrubs, and had resided in Chile for a long 

 period before coming to California. Mr. Britton states that Mr. Lick 

 imported trees and shrubs from other localities, and that there is no 

 further basis for the Chile supposition than the above. 



I have made an effort to ascertain whether the insect is known in 

 Chile, and have written at different times to naturalists residing in that 

 country, sending copies of Circular No. 3 to each. The only definite 

 information secured has come from Mr. Edwyn C. Reed, of Banos de 

 Cauquenas, who writes that he has traveled a great deal throughout 

 Chile, but has seen the San Jose scale only occasionally on pears from 

 Santiago. The first time he met with it was in 1872, when dining with 

 Mr. Henry Meigs, the railway contractor. The scale was noticed upon 

 pears brought on with the dessert. The pears were so badly infested 

 that they could not be eaten, and Mr. Reed studied the insect closely 

 and applied some washes to the trees. The significant point is, that 

 these trees icere introduced into Chile from the United States. Mr. Meigs 

 died shortly thereafter, and Mr. Reed has not since visited his garden. 

 The only evidence we have, therefore, of the occurrence of the San Jose 

 scale in Chile indicates at the same time that it was introduced into 

 that country from the United States. 



So far as we have been able to learn, the insect does not occur in 

 Japan. Correspondence with Mr. Otoji Takahashi, a skilled entomolo- 

 gist, who studied scale insects i)articularly with Comstock at Cornell 

 University, has resulted negatively. JNIr. Takahashi has studied the 

 scale insects of Japan to a certain extent since returning to thatcouutry 

 in 1893, but has not found Aspidlotus pcrniciosn.s. 



In Australia the si)ecies has been found. Mr. A. Sidney Olliff, Gov- 

 ernment Entomologist of New South Wales, reports having received 

 si)ecimens of it in 1892. 



Mr. Koebele, writing under date of September 30, 1894, states that he 

 personally has not met with the species in Australia, and that Mr. 

 Harold, of the Town and Country Journal, does not know anything 

 about it. Mr. Koebele further states that he has found it upon the 

 island of Kauai, upon prune and peach trees imjjorted from California. 

 One of the trees had been destroyed by the scale, and some branches 

 of the others were quite badly infested. Mr. Koebele expected to visit 

 Ceylon in December, Java in January, and subsequently Japan and 

 perhaps China, although the war may interfere with his visits to the 

 last-named countries. From Mr. Koebele's familiarity with scale insects 

 we hope to gain some definite information as the result of his extended 

 trip. From the facts now in my possession, we are forced to the con- 

 clusion that it is more likely the scale was originally introduced from 



