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its breeding season. At tbe date of observation, January 28, these 

 Scymni were nearly all i)airing, and quite a large number of very 

 young larvifi were afterwards observed in a box of twigs of Eucalyptus, 

 infested by the scale, and which were collected at the time of obser- 

 vation. 



So far as chronic depredators on fartn crops are concerned, about the 

 same state of affairs seems to exist in Australia as in the United States. 

 White Grubs get in their work after the most apj)roved American plan. 

 A species of Migratory Locust originates in the interior and overruns 

 considerable areas of farming country. A species of Caterpillar, with 

 habits strangely like those of our Army Worm, marches through fields 

 of grain, leaving destruction in its wake. I was informed that this pest 

 was more liable to occur immediately following a wet winter, late sown 

 oats being especially subject to attack. The Grain Moth, GelecMa 

 cereaJella, and the Eice Weevil, Calandra oryzce, cause serious damage 

 to stored grain. 



Early in February it was stated that in the vicinity of Caisus, 

 Queensland, "millions of caterpillars were clearing all vegetation be- 

 fore them." 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF SCYMNUS. 



By Dr. David Sharp, Wilmington, England. 



[Note. — The Australian and New Zealand Cocciuellids whicli were imported by 

 Mr. Koebele to California in the liope that they will become acclimatized and feed 

 upon the Fluted Scale were sent to Dr. Sharp for determination. As he finds among 

 them an interesting new species, and as this is x^erhaps the most prominent of the 

 species brought over, he has sent us a detailed description, which we publish below, 

 together with one of a closely allied species which he had formerly received from New 

 Zealand.— Eds."] 



Scymnus restitutor u. sp. 



Major, ovalis, niger, cinereo-jjn'bescens, protlioracis margine anieriore utrinque nntennis 

 que pallidetestaceis,illi8 apicem versus fnscesceniihus suhtus ahdomine jjectoreque sordide 

 testaceis. Long. 4|'""\ 



The upper surface is closely and rather finely punctured, the pubescence suberect, 

 a little curled; the thorax is rather narrow, so that the outline is discontinuous to a 

 greater degree than is usual in the genus. The under surface is of a sordid yellow or 

 pale red color, more or less iufuscate at the sides and in front ; the tarsi are fuscous 

 red, and the claws are all simple, neither toothed nor lobed. The prosternal lines 

 are rather long, and not at all curved in front ; moderately distant at the front mar- 

 gin they continue iu slightly divergent directions to the hind margin. The epi- 

 pleune are unusually broad. Claws of the hind feet simple, those of the middle and 

 front feet feebly lobed at the base. 



Found in Australia. 



This species does not resemble any other Scymnus known to me at ail 

 closely, except an undescribed species from jS'ew Zealand, which, owing 

 to this circumstance, it may be well to characterize. 



