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RUTHERGLEN or Fauss Cxincu Bua (Nysius vinitor, Gergroth). 
Description and Life History. 
Mr. Froggatt, in writing on this pest in the New South Wales 
Agricultural Gazette, says:—“Small plant bugs, which every few 
seasons appear in great numbers among the weeds and rubbish in 
, the fields, and when fully developed attack 
the fruit, pricking it with their sharp tubular 
mouths, and causing the fruit to become 
spotted, and finally fall to the ground. These 
bugs are small gray creatures, ahout 1% 
lines in length when full grown, of a zeneral 
grayish brown colour; the eyes large and 
rounded; the forehead rather pointed; and 
the antenne long, composed of four joints, 
the basal one short and thick; the thorax is 
narrow behind the eyes, but broader at the 
base of the wings; the legs long and slender, 
with the tarsi rather black; the wings are 
semi-transparent, with a few dark lines 
showing when closed. 
“They are very active little creatures, running to shelter when 
disturbed on the ground, and if upon the tree, flying off as soon as 
it is touched, so that they are not easily destroyed. Very little is 
known about their earlier stages, but the eggs are said to be de- 
posited about the trunks of the trees, close to the ground. This bug 
is said, besides damaging this and other fruit, to do considerable 
damage to tomato and potato fields by destroying the foliage, but 
the entomologist could never find conclusive proof that this was the 
case. 
“Treatment.—In the Liverpool district several orchardists mini- 
mise this pest, to a great extent, by going round early in the morn- 
ing and shaking edch branch over a large shallow dish containing 
a little kerosene and water, into which they fall and are smothered. 
This, however, would not be practicable in a large orchard badly 
infested. 
“Spraying with tobacco wash (see p.-527) has also been found 
to be effective. 
“Remedy.—Spray with Quibbel’s liquid disinfectant—*%oz. in 
one gallon of water.” 
Rutherglen Bug (Nysius 
vinitor). 
ScaLe Insects. 
These belong to the family Coccidae, and include the mealy 
bugs. The scale bug or bark lice in this family include some of the 
most serious pests with which the horticulturist has to deal. Scarcely 
any kind of fruit is free from their attacks. The ease with which 
