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Irs Foop-PLANTS IN SouTH ArRICA.—From Mr. Trimen’s 1877 report 
we gather the ae list of plants to which the Australian Bug had 
read since 1873 
por aad melan Kay oi, Australian Acacias, * Golden Willow,” Casuarina, 
Pittosporum, * Blue Gum" (rarely), Australian “ Bottle-brush," Oak, 
Orange, Vine, Fig, Laurustinus, Rose, Rosemary, Strawberry, Verbena, 
Plumbago, Indian Jasmine, Bougainvillea, Hawthorn, Poinsettia, 
sop 
s list is not added to in the “ ete of the Commission," &c., 
877 rticle 
5 writ 
March 17 (1882 ?), ut thé insect had then n mainly attached itself to the 
orange trees. * Many of the finest plantations have been destroyed and 
others are on the high road to destruction. You will remember," he 
says, “ how good and cheap oranges used to be here ; they have lately 
* been threepence and fourpence apiece, and often inferior in quality 
* even at such a price.’ 
Irs Foop-PLANTS IN NEW ZEALAND.—From the various communi- 
cations of Mr. Maskell and others in the Transaetions and Proceedings 
of the New Zealand Institute we give the following list of plants which 
have been especially designated. There has been no attempt, — 
on Mr. Maskell’s part to give at all a complete list, and in fact, he says,* 
* In Auckland it is attacking all sorts of plants, from Apple and Rose 
** ireés xi Pines, Fg icem. and Gorse.” The plants affected are— 
Co Fur: ange, Lemon, rina decurrens, Acacia armata, 
Apple, Wattles, Ros, Gorse, Pine C 
TS Foop-PLANTS IN CALIFORNIA aah eee starting upon Acacia 
latifolia at Menlo Park, this insect soon spread to numberless other 
lants i 
P le, Bridal-wreath, Rose ox, Verbena, Veronica, 
Acacia mollissima, Acacia latifolia, nae linnearis, Acacia i- 
bunda, Pittosporum.  tobira, Straw k Locust, California 
one Cork Elm, English ‘Ivy, Magnolia pe^ iflora, White Oak, 
art bigs Almond, Wild Grease-Woo 
‘On recent experience in California, | as well as that of Messrs. Coquil- 
lett ika Koebele last summer, would indicate that, while there are few 
able. It undoubtedly thrives best on aee. and next to these we 
should place the Citrus fruits, the Quince, and the Pomegranate, and we 
doubt if it could thrive upon many other trees. The list of its food- 
plants, or rather of plants upon which it has been found, is longer than 
is justified, not only because of its power of endurance above noted, but 
because the young are easily carried by wind or otherwise to plants 
more or less uncongenial and on which they ultimately perish, while the 
adults are often dislodged from infested Acacia or Citrus trees on to 
plants under or near them 
* Ibid., XVI., p. 140 (1883). 
