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Aspidiotus Rossi, Maskell. 
This scale has no common name by which it is known, and very 
little attention is ever given to it, as it is seldom noticed upon any 
fruit-trees (olive excepted), but may be found in almost any garden 
or park in and around Perth, where it attacks many varieties of 
shrubs and other garden plants, and is very common on the oleander 
trees. Some writers claim that this is an indigenous species to Aus- 
tralia; but such is not the case. 
Remedies.—Use Nos. 10, 14, 20, or fumigate with No. 18 (see 
pp. 528-530). 
Parlatoria zizyphi, Lueas. 
There is no common name which this seale insect is known 
by, and it was twenty years ago discovered in this State; but 
the trees upon which it was found were at once destroyed by burning 
them, so it may be hoped that the State is again free from this scale. 
In Italy it is one of the most serious pests of the citrus trees, and 
causes a great amount of damage. It had also at one time been a 
serious pest of the citrus trees of the Hawaiian Islands, but on the 
introduction of the Australian ladybird (Orcus chalybeus) to those 
islands it soon became a harmless form, and is no longer noticed 
there. 
Remedy.—Fumigate with No. 18. Spraying aginst this scale 
has, been of no use in Italy. 
Rhizococeus araucariae, Maskell. 
This coceus is a very common pest of the Norfolk Island pine 
(Araucaria excelsior), and a few years ago some trees in one of the 
gardens in Perth were found very badly infested with it; but the 
introduction of the ladybird (Cryptoleamus montrouzieri) from the 
Eastern States has rid the trees of this scale. 
STRAWBERRY BEETLES, 
Between the rows sink, with the top flush with the ground, meat 
or jam tins half-filled with water sweetened with treacle or with 
honey. The beetles at night are attracted by the smell and tumble 
in; in the morning the tins are visited and the beetles taken out and 
destroyed. After a little while but few beetles are left. 
In the autumn mow the plants (not too close, as not to hurt 
the crowns), rake off and burn. By so doing the homes of many 
pests are destroyed, and at the same time the leaf blight is 
checked. 
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