November, 1909 
to Hawaii. It was necessary to extend these 
laborious and costly investigations to every 
part of the world from which sugar-cane 
plants have been imported. The home of the 
insect was finally located in Australia, where 
two of its most formidable enemies were also 
found. “These are two species of ichneumon 
fly, of the genera Paranargus and Ovetertas- 
tichus, which lay their eggs in the eggs of the 
cicada. The first-named species destroys only 
the cicada eggs in which its own eggs are de- 
posited, but the other species pierces only one 
egg of each cluster of cicada eggs and its larva 
destroys the entire cluster. Both species have 
been successfully colonized in Hawaii and the 
prodigious increase of the sugar-cane cicada has 
thus been checked. 
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A merely casual examination of this in- 
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its author has here gathered views of the 
hundred country houses he most admires in 
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This is a book of very distinct character and 
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