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Section 5 is directed particularly against scale-insects. It reads as 

 follows : 



Kvery owner or owners, person or ]>ersous, in charge or ])08session ofsiiiy orchard, 

 nursery, or other premises in San IJernardino County on which are growin<r any 

 trees, vines, slirul)s, phuits, flowers, or vegetables infested with red, cottony cushion, 

 or any other apparently dangerous scale, or the eggs, larvie, or pupte thereof, shall 

 wlien recinired by the county board of horticultural cornuiissioners, as in their dis- 

 cretion may seem necessary, cut back, disinfect, fumigate, or burn said infested 

 trees, vines, shrubs, plants, flowers, or vegetables, as well as other articles that may 

 be in the vicinity of such infested articles. 



RAPIIIDIA IN NEW ZEALAND. 



We have already mentioned our attempts to introduce the California 

 Raphidia, which feeds upon the Codling Moth larva, into New Zealand, 

 and the failure of the first attempt by mail. We learn from the Keio 

 Zealand Farmer, of October, 1S91, that the specimens carried over by 

 Mr. Koebele, on his way to Australia, arrived in good condition. They 

 were nearly all in the pupal condition upon arrival. Dreading the 

 severity of the New Zealand winter, our correspondent, Mr. R. Allan 

 Wight, sent a few of them to Mr. C. French, in Melbourne, to be accli- 

 matized there. The American ladybirds, carried over at the same time, 

 also arrived in good condition. Mr. Wight states that Cycloneda san- 

 guinea and Hippodamia convergens began at once to feed ui)on the 

 "Woolly Aphis" {ScMzoneura lanigera). 



THE STRAWBERRY LEAF-ROLLER IN KENTUCKY. 



In Agricultural Mence, Vol. v (pp. 211-212), Mr. H. Garman has an 

 article on the Strawberry Leaf-roller {Phoxopteris comptana), in which 

 he adds to our knowledge of the life-history of this insect and describes 

 and figures the egg. The author's observations prove conclusively the 

 existence of three, and only three, broods of the insect in his locality, 

 a fact which was partially proven for southern Illinois by Forbes in his 

 thirteenth report as entomologist of Illinois. The life-history, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Garman, is for Kentucky, in brief, about as follows : 



Oviposition for the first brood takes place the last week in April, the 

 larva' hatching the last week in May, and attaining full growth by the 

 first week of June. Pupation takes place soon afterward and the moths 

 appear from June 11-26. The second brood appears the first week in 

 July, the larvjc becoming full grown the last week of that month, and 

 during the first week of August the moths emerge. The larvie of the 

 third brood begin work about September 1, remain on the plants until 

 cold weather, when they seek shelter for pupation. The adults emerge 

 at the appearance of warm weather, but most of them do not appear 

 until the middle of April. 



