ANIMALS INJURIOUS TO FARM AND GARDEN PRODUCE. 7 



are found in such habitats. Hence these minute insects, quite apart 

 from their o\vn depredations, may prove a source by which various 

 plant diseases may be introduced by spores which they carry upon 

 their bodies. This I have proved to be actually so by washing- various 

 species in water and then examining the liquid, after the removal of 

 the insects ; in such cases spores of fungi were particularly numerous. 



SCALE INSECT5 ATTACKING BULBS. 



Ripersia terrestris (Xewstead). 



In February last 1 received from \Yarwickshire, hyacinth bulbs 

 attacked bv this scale insect. 



Fig. i. Fig. 2. 



RIPERSIA TKRRESTRIS (Newstead). 

 FIG. i. Dorsal view. FIG. 2. Ventral view. (After Newstead). 



It was first described by Xewstead in 1895,* from specimens dis- 

 covered near London on roots of stephanotis. The following- year 

 Mr. C. O. \Yaterhouse, of the British Museum (Natural History), 

 found it on palm roots. In 1901, Mr. F. W. Burbidge called Mr. 



lEntom. Mon. Mag., 1895, vol. iv, pp. 213, 214, figs. 1-5. 



