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  ranged 
  from 
  1.9 
  to 
  3.4 
  centimeters, 
  with 
  an 
  average 
  rate 
  of 
  2.75 
  centi- 
  

   meters 
  (i.i 
  inch) 
  to 
  the 
  minute. 
  

  

  Where 
  strips 
  of 
  damp 
  cloth 
  were 
  tied 
  around 
  branches 
  of 
  a 
  tree 
  to 
  

   protect 
  the 
  fungus 
  beneath, 
  it 
  was 
  noticed 
  May 
  28th 
  that 
  the 
  traveling 
  

   young 
  would 
  accumulate 
  along 
  the 
  lower 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  band 
  in 
  a 
  way 
  to 
  

   form 
  a 
  yellow 
  circle 
  around 
  the 
  limb. 
  Such 
  an 
  accumulation 
  was 
  rarely 
  

   seen 
  above 
  the 
  band. 
  None 
  of 
  the 
  young 
  attempted 
  to 
  cross 
  the 
  cloth. 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  insect 
  enemy 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Jose 
  scale 
  noticeably 
  abundant 
  

   in 
  the 
  Sparta 
  region 
  was 
  Pentilia 
  tnisella 
  (Plate 
  IV, 
  Fig. 
  4, 
  5, 
  6), 
  which 
  

   became 
  so 
  common 
  in 
  badly 
  infested 
  orchards 
  by 
  November 
  2d 
  that 
  

   the 
  number 
  on 
  a 
  heavily 
  infested 
  tree 
  was 
  estimated 
  at 
  several 
  thousand. 
  

   They 
  had, 
  notwithstanding, 
  produced 
  no 
  visible 
  effect 
  upon 
  the 
  number 
  

   of 
  scales 
  in 
  any 
  orchard 
  visited. 
  The 
  twice 
  stabbed 
  ladybird 
  (C///76'c-(^?;7/i- 
  

   bivitlncrus, 
  Plate 
  IV, 
  Fig. 
  i, 
  2), 
  was 
  seen 
  occasionally, 
  but 
  was 
  nowhere 
  

   abundant. 
  

  

  