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Gloomy seale (Chrysomphalus tenebricosus Comst.). 
West Indian peach seale (Diasnis pentagona Targ.). 
Scurfy scale (Chionaspis furfura Fitch). 
Euonymus seale (Chionaspis euonymi Comst.). 
Oyster-shell scale (Lepidosaphes ulmi Linn.). 
Peach scale (Hulecanium persice Fab.). 
Plum Lecanium (Lulecanium prinastri Fonsc.). 
Pine Chermes (Cherimes pinicorticis Fitch). 
Strawberry root-aphis (Aphis forbesi Weed). 
Black peach aphis (Aphis persice-niger Erwin Smith). 
Woolly apple aphis (Schizon2ura lanigera Hauasm.). 
Pear Psylla (Psylla pyri Linn.). 
LEPIDOPTERA, 
Gypsy moth (Porthetria dispar Linn.). 
Brown-tail moth (Huproctis chrasorrhea Litn.). 
Canker-worms (Paleacrita verneta Peck; Alsophila pometaria Harr.). 
Fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea Drury). 
Appie-tree tent-caterpillur (JZalacosoma americana Harris). 
COLEOPTERA. 
Cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis Boh.). 
Sinuate pear borer (Agrilus sinuatus Ol.). 
Imported willow borer (Cryptorhynchus lapathi Linn.). 
Strawberry crown-borer (Tyloderma fragarie Riley). 
When it is stated that of this list only the San Jose scale is common 
to all States which have enacted laws for insect control, the diversity 
of the requirements of the different States is plain. In a country so 
diverse, clhmatically and industrially, as ours the legislation adopted 
must needs be more or less dissimilar, but the laek of uniformity in 
legislation of this character greatly interferes with the attainment of 
results the accomphshment of which has been the principal excuse 
for its establishment. ‘The principal exciting cause of the enactment 
of laws has been and still is the control of the San Jose scale, and the 
hasty manner in which many of these were called into existence fol- 
lowing the discovery of this pest in the East must be largely held 
responsible for their present diversity. 
A erisis of a somewhat similar character is now facie the cotton 
erowers of the South, and several States have made provision for the 
restriction of the cotton boll weevil. There has, however, been a 
notable iniprovement in the details of this work, in that the entomolo- 
gists of the several States interested have agreed on a certain uni- 
formity in the measures to be adopted which will add much to their 
possible effectiveness. 
A most stupendous attempt at insect control is now beimg contem- 
plated by the State of Texas, designed to reduce injury from the 
cotton boll weevil by the enforced adoption of certain radical changes 
in the agricultural practices of their cotton planters. The extent 
