family called "Wood-bugs. It is closely allied with what the Americans 

 call the " False Chinch Bng," a very troublesome insect. The Ruther- 

 glen species is small, but very destructive, as it appears in large 

 numbers and spreads rapidly. The insect acts by piercing through the 

 skin of the fruit and sucking the juices, which causes it to shrivel up. 

 It attacks nearly every kind of summer fruit, and is especially destruc- 

 tive to Apricots, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, and Grapes. Mr. French, 

 Entomologist, Victorian Department of Agriculture, says that benzole 

 alone seemed to be the only thing which had the merit of instantly 

 destroying the pest without injury to the fruit. 



Scale. There are a great number of insects known under the name 

 of Scale, and they belong to various families. Many fruits have their 

 own particular Scale insects ; while some of these pests are cosmopolitan 



PROMINENT TYPES OF SCALE INSECTS. 



COMMON SCALE (LECANIUM). 



MUSSEL SCALE (Aspi- 

 ODOTIS). 



1. Insects (natural size). 2. Insect (greatly ; 

 magnified). 



OYSTER SCALE (MY:;LASPIS). 



1. Eggs in shell (highly 

 magnified). 



2. Insects (natural size). 



Fig. 1. Perfect insect (natural size). 2. Perfect 

 insect (highly magnified). 3. Scales (highly 

 magnified). 4. Branch of tree showing scales 

 natural size. 



