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Sec. 5. Section five of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 



" Sec. 5. Each member of the county board of horticultural commissioners, and 

 each local inspector, shall be paid for each day actually engaged in the performance 

 of his duties under this act, payable out of the county treasury of his county, such 

 compensation as shall be determined by resolution of the board of supervisors of the 

 county, before entering into the discharge of his or their duties." 



Sec. 6. Section six of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 



" Sec. 6. Said county boards of horticultural commissioners shall have power to 

 remove any local inspector who shall fail to perform the duties of his office." 



Sec. 7. Section seven of said act is hereby repealed. 



Sec. 8. Section eight of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows, and to 

 b© known as section seven of said act, viz : 



"Sec. 7. If any member of the county board of horticultural commissioners shall 

 fail to perform their duties of his office, as required by this act, he may be removed 

 from office by the board of supervisors, and the vacancy thus formed shall be filled 

 by appointment by the board of supervisors." 



Sec. 9. Section 9 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows, and to be 

 known as section 8 of said act, viz : 



"Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners 

 to keep a record of their official doings and to make a monthly report to the board of 

 supervisors, and the board of supervisors may withhold warrant for salary of said 

 members and inspectors thereof until such time as said report is made." 



Sec. 10. A new section is hereby added to said act, to be known as section 9, and 

 to read as follows, viz : 



"Sec. 9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are 

 hereby repealed." 

 Sec. 11. This act shall take effect and to be in force from and after its passage. 



NEW CODLING MOTH AND PEACH-BORER ENEMIES. 



Prof. E. A. Popenoe, in the Industrialist for June 6, mentions an in- 

 teresting new parasite of the Codling Moth, which he determines as a 

 new species of the genus Bethylus. Of this parasite 5 larvae were 

 found in a group feeding externally upon the dorsum of one of the 

 abdominal segments of an Apple- worm taken from the interior of an 

 apple. The larvae spun yellow cocoons after arriving at full growth, 

 and in fact their habit seems to be quite similar to that of Chalcids of 

 the genus Euplectrus. 



He also describes the manner in which the larvae of Trogosita obscura 

 devour the pupae of the Codling Moth under tree bands. 



He also states that he bred a large number of specimens of a honey- 

 yellow Braconid from larvae and pupae of the Peach-tree Borer. We 

 are surprised to notice that he states that he has not been able to find 

 in any of the entomological reports reference to any parasites of this 

 insect, and we may call attention to the statement upon page 255 of 

 the Annual Eeport of this Department for 1879, that Professor Corn- 

 stock during that year bred 4 parasites — 2 Chalcids, 1 Microgaster, and 

 1 Braconid. Professor Riley has reared from the iEgeria PJucogenes 

 ater Cress, and Bracon nigrifectus Riley MS. 



Professor Popenoe's article is illustrated by figures of the Bethylus 

 and Trogosita, which have been admirably drawn by Mr. C. L. Marlatt. 



