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Lithocolletis incanella sp. n. 



Antenna', whitish, faintly spotted above. 



Palpi, shiniug white. 



Head, face shining white, frontal tuft white, with a few saffron scales at the sides. 



Thorax, bright reddish-saffron, with a thin whitish line running around its anterior 

 margin and communicating with the basal streak on the fore-wing. 



Fore-wings, bright brownish-saffron with a long slender medio-basal white streak with- 

 out dark margins, four costal and three dorsal streaks of the same color, some- 

 times with a slight metallic sheen; the first costal streak is a little before the 

 middle of the wing, oblique and pointed, with a scarcely perceptible dark dusting 

 along its inner margin ; the first dorsal streak commences a little nearer to the 

 base; it is dark-margined internally, and is somewhat wider than and reaches a 

 little beyond the costal streak beyond it; the second costal streak is small and 

 points slightly outwards; the third is nearly perpendicular ; the fourth points 

 slightly inwards from a little before the apex; these three are all dark-margined 

 on their inner edge ; opposite to these are the second and third dorsal streaks; 

 the second is triangular, wider at the base and dark margined internally, its black 

 dusting communicating with a patch of similar blackish scales at its apex extend- 

 ing to the second costal streak above it ; the third dorsal streak is short, point- 

 ing inwards and dark margined on both sides, its outer margin being continuous 

 with a dark line at the base of the cilia which encircles the tip of the wing reach- 

 ing to the exterior costal streak; within this line, but separate from it, is an 

 elongate apical sjjot of somewhat disconnected blackish scales, the cilia pale 

 greyish. 



Hind-tvings and cilia, pale grayish. 



Abdomen, dark gray above, anal tuft somewhat paler. 



Hind tarsi, white, tipped with grayish, and two grayish-saffron spots above. 



Exp. al., 9""". 



Type, $ 9 Mus. Wlsm. 



The larva feeds in mines on the under side oi Alnus incana towards the end of June 

 in Colusia County, Cal., the perfect insects emerged in July, 1871. Seven specimens 

 were bred, and the species was also met with on the wing at Burney Creek (near Pit 

 River), Shasta County, Cal. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



THE AMENDED CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL LAW. 



We take froiu the Los Angeles Evening Express, of July 12, the fol- 

 lowiug ameudmeuts to the old act to protect aud ijromote the horticult- 

 ural interests of the State. The act embodyiug- these ameudmeuts was 

 approved March 20. Entomological legislation is so unusual in this 

 country that these rulings will be read with interest: 



Sec. 1. Section 1 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 

 " Sec. 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of any county, 

 and signed by twenty-five or more persons who are resident freeholders aud possesss- 

 ors of an orchard, or both, stating that certain or all orchards or nurseries, or trees 

 of any variety, are infested with scale insects of any kind, injurious to fruit, fruit 

 trees, aud vines, codlin moth, or other insects that are destructive to trees, and pray- 

 ing that a commission be appointed by them whose duty it shall be to supervise their 

 destruction as herein provided, the board of supervisors shall, within twenty days 

 thereafter, select three commissioners for the couuty, to be known as a county board 



