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-Orthezia insignis was first described in the pela yh Monthly 
Magazine. for yuma ary 1888. Mr. Douglas says :— In st. Mr, 
Edward T. B e, Uxb bridge e Lodge, Shepherd Bush, d Aid 
per of this Qd which he had. obtained: ih the Royal Gardens at 
Kew, requesting that I 
particulars :—* First found on Strobilanthes, : a yos eplan which has 
been in the Economic House three years ; it may now, be seen in the 
adjoining house on other foreign plants. 
The Assistant Curator has furnished the following report on the 
subject :— 
* The Chinese Strobilanthes referred = is S. flaceidifolius, Nees (Bot. 
Mag. t. 6947), which was ener from Hong Kong in .May.1886. -This 
plant is not mue y the Orthezia, whereas S. gossypinus Sed 
S. pats two Indian species introduced by means of seeds 1 
fro camund in 1887, have been much Ru to it, : 
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tropical houses for about ten ‘years, but we cannot trace its source.” 
In Timehri (vol. iii, m ew, ser, 1889, p. 308) Mr. S. J. McIntire 
figures the Orthezia with the remark :—-* Noti ced as a sige among 
the plant vermin, of Kew Gardens, into which place, we v, know, it 
must pate Se en intr oduced aie some UR from British ee 
especially those oem Dv iceous « rdi PPS age A 
common it is not nearly PEE ve or troublesome as Allies we | 
allies, - 
In the young state it is very vendetta after it becomes fully 
eloped. it is more ed upon by its natural enemies, which 
ects are more assiduous than the grubs of the different species of 
Coceinel la, Syrphas, the various Hemerobide, of which ities eint 
species of Chrysopha act a chief part. 
r. Ward was appointed to the Botanic Gardens i in Désniek from 
owe: in 1886. “i does not se =+ his observations were made on tlie 
insect in Demera It may, however, be présumed that they were, and 
that he had Bowi ‘the Orthezia ate some time. 
As far as Kew is concerned, the Orthezia is rather a scientific: curiosity 
itin. a troublesome 
` The dispersion of fist: diseases through the interchange of plants 
undoubtedly a poni requiring careful precautions. The Pe te 
i n an o Switzerland. e Coff . disease 
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dee and to German East Africa on the other, It has always 
a matter of the deepest anxiety lest by any accident it should 
be introduced through Kew to the New World, where it-does not at 
‘present exist. It has been no less a matter of anxiety Jest the Coffee- 
eaf aie should be i nfroduced into the Old World. Kew extends, 
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described br the late Professor Moseley as "aem Kewense, which is 
generally to be found in the houses, is a case in poin 
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