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with Mr. Britton, who informs me that the sole bases for this supposi- 
tion were(l) That the scale first became epidemic in the orchard of the 
late Mr. Lick, and first spread to those orchards which had communi- 
cation with his orchard; and (2) that Mr. Lick was an energetic 
importer of trees and shrubs, and had resided in Chile for a long 
period before coming to California. Mr. Britton states that Mr. Lick 
imported trees and shrubs from other localities, and that there is no 
further basis for the Chile supposition than the above. 
I have made an effort to ascertain whether the insect is known in 
Chile, and have written at different times to naturalists residing in that 
country, sending copies of Circular No. 3 to each. The only definite 
information secured has come from Mr. Edwyn C. Reed, of Bafios de 
Cauquenas, who writes that he has traveled a great deal throughout 
Chile, but has seen the San Jose scale only occasionally on pears from 
Santiago. The first time he met with it was in 1872, when dining with 
Mr. Henry Meigs, the railway contractor. The scale was noticed upon 
pears brought on with the dessert. The pears were so badly infested 
that they could not be eaten, and Mr. Reed studied the insect closely 
and applied some washes to the trees. The significant point is, that 
these trees were introduced into Chile from the United States. Mr. Meigs 
died shortly thereafter, and Mr. Keed has not since visited his garden. 
The only evidence we have, therefore, of the occurrence of the San Jose 
scale in Chile indicates at the same time that it was introduced into 
that country from the United States. 
So far as we have been able to learn, the insect does not occur in 
Japan. Correspondence with Mr. Otoji Takahashi, a skilled entomolo- 
gist, who studied scale insects particularly with Comstock at Cornell 
University, has resulted negatively. Mr. Takahashi has studied the 
scale insects of Japan to a certain extent since returning to that country 
in 1893, but has not found Aspidiotus j>erniciosus. 
In Australia the species has been found. Mr. A. Sidney Olliff, Gov- 
ernment Entomologist of New South Wales, rep>orts having received 
specimens of it in 1892. 
Mr. Koebele, writing under date of September 30, 1894, states that he 
personally has not met with the species in Australia, and that Mr. 
Harold, of the Town and Country Journal, does not know anything 
about it. Mr. Koebele further states that he has found it upon the 
island of Kauai, upon prune and peach trees imported from California. 
One of the trees had been destroyed by the scale, and some branches 
of the others were quite badly infested. Mr. Koebele expected to visit 
Ceylon in December, Java in January, and subsequently Japan and 
perhaps China, although the war may interfere with his visits to the 
last-named countries. From Mr. Koebele's familiarity with scale insects 
we hope to gain some definite information as the result of his extended 
trip. From the facts now in my possession, we are forced to the con- 
clusion that it is more likely the scale was originally introduced from 
