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An examination at tlii.s office sliowed them to be winjjless agamic 

 females of a speeies of tlie <;eiius Tycliea, and to have no connection 

 whatever with Phorodon. But our determination reached Washinj:fton 

 after the matter got into i)rint, and tlie Post-TnteJJ'Kjcnvef of Seattle 

 published a long account, under some startling headlines, claiming 

 that the Entomologist of this Department had made a mistake in the 

 life-history of the Hop Louse, and that the insects found in the soil were 

 the stem-mothers o^ Phorodon hi(iiii(li. Mr. S. A. Tonneson, the Secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Horticulture of Washington, in an interview 

 reported in this article, is more guarded in his statements than the 

 headlines of the article would indicate, and acknowledges the possi- 

 bility of a mistake. Sooner or later the hop groAvers of Washington 

 and Oregon will realize all we have said on this subject is true, and 

 that one of the best ways to fight the Hop Plant-louse is to destroy the 

 first generation on plum trees early in the spring with the kerosene 

 emulsion. 



MORE CALIFORNIA NOTES. 



The State inspectors have been actively enforcing the quarantine 

 laws, and, as we learn from the Pacifiv Rural Press of January 0, duiing 

 the preceding week large numbers of diseased fruit trees imported from 

 the East were seized and condemned. Peach Yellows and the Plum 

 Curculio were the principal pests found. Trees to the value of $5,000 

 were condemned. Protests by eastern nurserymen were sent in and 

 claims made that neither the Peach Yellows nor the Plum Curculio 

 would flourish in California. The same point was raised, it will be re- 

 membered, a year or so ago with regard to the Florida species of Mytil- 

 asi)is upon Orange, viz, the Purple Scale and the Long Scale, but we 

 notice from the California Fruit Grower of January 23 that John Scott, 

 Horticultural Commissioner of Los Angeles County, has proven '' be- 

 yond a doubt" that the Purple Scale will thrive in California and that 

 trees brought into the State three or four years ago are now covered 

 with the i)ests. The Anaheim Gazette is responsible for the statement 

 that the cold snap in December or January killed otf many Red Scales 

 in the Anaheim region. Seedlings, which had been badly infested, 

 were found after the cold snap without a sign of scale upon them. The 

 frost was supposed to have killed them and the subsequent rains to 

 have washed them otf. 



A HONEY BEE ENEMY IN CALIFORNIA. 



Our agent, Mr. D. W. Coquillett, of Los Angeles, Cal., has sent us 

 specimens of the Heteropteron Apiomeris Jiaviventris\\\\\Q\\'\:iQ has seen 

 feeding upon honey bees. Both the adults and the nymphs were en- 

 gaged in this destructive occupation. 



