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The Dipterous Leaf-miner ( Oscinis sp.) : This insect is so common that 

 it is difficult to find a single tea bush upon which are not a great many 

 leaves marked with the remains of its larva. An internal parasite is 

 mentioned, and it is stated that this miner causes no appreciable 

 damage. 



The Black Grub or Out- Worm (Agrotis suffusa) : The full-grown larva 

 of this insect shears off a number of young plants at each meal. 



The Tineid Leaf-miner (Gracillaria sp.): This insect affects the 

 younger leaves only, and has no opportunity of troubling where the 

 bushes are regularly picked. 



The Blue striped kettle-grub (Parasa lepida) : This is one of the sting- 

 ing caterpillars, of which we have a number in this country, and it occurs 

 in considerable numbers on the tea plantations, often completely defo- 

 liating the trees. The larva is of a brilliant yellow-green color with a 

 rich lilac stripe along the middle of the back and a bright blue stripe on 

 each side. The poisonous spines are pale green and are arranged in 

 tufts along the body. The moth is chocolate brown, with a bright green 

 baud obliquing across the fore wings ; the hind wings are buff, tinged 

 with chocolate at the margins. 



NEW INSECT LEGISLATION. 



As exhibiting the lively legislative interest taken in California in re- 

 gard to insect pests, and as supplementary to the Amended California 

 Horticultural Laws published on pages 8L to 83 of the present volume, 

 we give below a copy of Ordinance No. 26 of San Bernardino County, 

 Cal., which was passed last November. 



Section 1. No person or persons, either as owner, agent, servant or employe^ shall 

 keep, sell, expose for sale or otherwise distribute within the limits of San Bernardino, 

 County, California, any fruits, plants, flowers or vegetables infected with live scale or 

 other insects, or their eggs, larvae or pupae, detrimental or injurious to fruit-trees or 

 plant-life, or the products thereof, and if any fruits, plants, flowers, or vegetables 

 should, on examination, be found to be infected with scale or other insects, or their 

 eggs, larvae or pupae, the said fruits, plants, flowers or vegetables shall be disinfected 

 or destroyed under the direction of the county board of horticultural commissioners. 



Sec. 2. No person or persons, whether as owner, agent, servant or employe", shall 

 bring, or cause to be brought into the county of San Bernardino, any trees, vines, 

 shrubs, scions, cuttings, grafts, plants, flowers, or vegetables from any district, 

 county, or State declared by the county board of horticultural commissioners of 

 said San Bernardino County to be infested with scale or other insects, detrimental 

 or injurious to trees, vines, fruits or plant-life or the products thereof. 



Sec. 3. No person or persons, as owner, agent, or employe", shall bring, or cause to 

 be brought, into San Bernardino County, California, any trees, vines, shrubs, scions, 

 cuttings, grafts, fruits, plants, flowers, or vegetables, from any district, county or 

 State, not declared to be infested, as provided in section two of this ordinance, with- 

 out giving notice of their arrival to a member of the county board of horticultural commis- 

 sioners or the local inspector of the district into which they are brought ; or plant, sell, give 

 away or otherwise distribute them, or cause the same to be done, until they shall first 

 have been inspected, aud, if necessary, disinfected to the satisfaction of the county 

 board of horticultural commissioners of said San Bernardino Countv- 



