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mentioned was identical with that about Orange. The Vedalia has 

 brought the people a simple, rapid, and effective remedy for the white 

 scale, and the commission was very solicitous lest the people should 

 give up the use of washes for the red scale and wait for the spread 

 of the chalcid parasite. If the parasite should multiply but slowly, 

 which seems probable, the red scale would be enabled to spread and do 

 great harm before overtaken. It is of the highest importance, at this 

 time, that a constant fight against this scale should be made, and there 

 should be no halting, even if imperfect means of holding the pest in 

 check are only at hand. 



I carefully examined the experiments conducted by Mr. Ooquillett 

 with resin washes, and consider that he has used excelleDt judgment 

 in the manner in which he has conducted them. I think he plans his 

 spraying experiments carefully and with good judgment, and carries 

 them through with thoroughness to the end. 



It seems to me of the highest importance that experiments with 

 washes be prosecuted, and that the great advance of the last year be 

 followed up vigorously. With the resin washes for the red scale, and 

 the Vedalia for the white scale, the citrus industry will again move 

 forward and people have the confidence in it of former days. 



CICINDELA LIMBATA Say. 

 Bv Lawrexce Bruxer. 



Eecently, while walking over the sand-hills lying to the south of the 

 Dismal Eiver in Thomas County, Nebr., I found 

 a few specimens of Say's Cicindela limbata. This 

 very interesting beetle is, so far as I am at present 

 aware, confined to the sand-hill region of central 

 and northern Nebraska. In this region it is also 

 restricted in its distribution to certain peculiar 

 localities. 



The species was first observed by me on the 

 afternoon of the 11th of July, at about 6 o'clock 

 p. m., while walking through a large "blow-out," 

 two sides of which were almost perpendicular, 

 L \ J \ while the others were sloping and composed en- 



tirely of loose white sand. Three of the beetles 

 were taken, two of them in coitu. 



The next day until 2 p. m. was spent in looking 

 for more of thein. In all two dozen specimens 

 were taken — everyone of them in "blow-outs" 

 of a similar type to that in which the first were 

 seen, i. e., with one or more nearly perpendicular 

 sides and in which little or no vegetation occurred. 



Fig. 24. — Cicindela i.im 

 bata— enlarged. (Original.) 





