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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 32.] AUGUST. [1889. 
THE FLUTED SCALE-INSECT. 
(eerya Purchasi, Maskell.) 
WirR PLATE. 
An insect which ranks amongst one of the Tes destructive pests 
injurious to plants has made its appearance of late years in South 
frica, New Zealand, and California, It bue to the family Coccide 
or scale i insects, and is known under various popular names, South 
Africa it is called *the Australian Bug "in in New vm vem d, the ** Cottony 
Cushion-scale" ; and in California it is indifferently the “ White scale,” 
* Ribbed scale," ‘or “ Cottony ngage Professor Riley, who has 
thoroughly investigated its life-history, s 
known as the * Fluted scale." Mr. M Maskell first described thie species 
rom New Zealand a in 1878 (New Zealand Trans., Vol. XI. 
1878, p. 221), and whatever diversity may exist as regards its popular 
name, it is now one di science as Jcerya Purchast, Maskell. 
It was first observed in South Afriea at Cape Town in 1873. In 
1876 it had ib to the Poule C division of Meme and is 
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