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of the California quarantine laws is quoted nearly in full. It will be 
remembered that this decision was rendered in the case brought by 
the State Board of Horticulture against the owners of certain orange 
trees which were imported from Tahiti and which were infested by a 
scale insect new to California. We have already referred to this case 
and to Judge MeKinley’s decision upon page 400, Vol. tv, INSECT LIFE, 
So far as we know, California took the lead in regard to this matter of 
quarantine, and if this State succeeds in making its measures in this 
direction effective, it will deserve the gratitude of the fruit-growers of 
the entire country. The importance of such regulations in certain other 
States can hardly be overestimated, and Florida in particular needs* 
sofme such quarantine law. 
There are anumber of enterprising horticulturists in Florida at the 
present time who are engaged in attempting to acclimate many sub- 
tropical plants of economic importance. We know already of several 
West Indian insects which have been brought into this country in this 
way and there are undoubtedly many more which should be guarded 
against. Florida will not be the only sufferer through negligence in 
this respect since, although her climate differs from that of the more 
northern States and the West Indian and South and Central American 
species imported will in many cases not spread to the northward, there 
are still a number of species, particularly among the scale-insects, 
which, though tropical or subtropical in origin, are potential pests of, 
temperate regions as well. The whole country, therefore, is more or 
less interested in this question, and there can be no better illustrations 
of this fact than the recent occurrence of the pernicious San José Seale 
around Charlottesville, Va., and the likewise comparatively recent dis- 
tribution of a West Indian Aspidiotus on Peach (Aspidiotus lanatus) 
which we have deemed of sufficient importance to treat of in our annual 
report for the year 1893. 
Some Kansas Insect Notes.—In the Transactions of the Kansas 
Academy of Science (Vol. x11, 1891-92, pp. 112-115), Mr. Vernon L. 
Kellogg publishes some notes on injurious insects which will be of 
interest to economic entomologists. The species considered are the 
Wheat-straw Worm (Isosoma tritici), a new Bibio (Bibio tristis n. sp.), 
the Western Corn Root-worm (Diabrotica longicornis), the Ham Fly 
(Piophila casei), and the Fermenting Fruit-fly (Drosophila spp.). Myr. 
Kellogg shows that the Wheat-straw Worm occurred in about one- 
fourth of the counties of the State of Kansas in 1891 and was especially 
prevalent in central and western Kansas. The author, perhaps 
unwittingly, gives a wrong impression concerning the life history of | 
this species in leading to the inference that it is single-brooded. No 
reference is made to its important dimorphism. Parasitism by Hupelmus 
allynti was noticed in all of the examinations made. The new Bibio 
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