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Section 5 is directed particularly against scale-insects. It reads as 
follows: 
Every owner or owners, person or persons, in charge or possession of any orchard, 
nursery, or other premises in San Bernardino County on which are growing any 
trees, vines, shrubs, plants, flowers, or vegetables infested with red, cottony cushion, 
or any other apparently dangerous scale, or the eggs, larve, or pupe thereof, shall 
when required by the county board of horticultural commissioners, as in their dis- 
cretion may seem necessary, cut back, disinfect, fumigate, or burn said infested 
trees, vines, shrubs, plants, flowers, or vegetables, as well as other articles that may 
be in the vicinity of such infested articles. 
RAPHIDIA IN NEW ZEALAND. 
We have already mentioned our attempts to introduce the California 
Raphidia, which feeds upon the Codling Moth larva, into New Zealand, 
and the failure of the first attempt by mail. We learn from the New 
Zealand Farmer, of October, 1891, that the specimens carried over by 
Mr. Koebele, on his way to Australia, arrived in good condition. They 
were nearly all in the pupal condition upon arrival. Dreading the 
severity of the New Zealand winter, our correspondent, Mr. R. Allan 
Wight, sent a few of them to Mr. C. French, in Melbourne, to be aceli- 
matized there. The American ladybirds, carried over at the same time, 
also arrived in good condition. Mr. Wight states that Cycloneda san- 
guinea and Hippodamia convergens began at once to feed upon the 
“Woolly Aphis” (Schizoneura lanigera). 
THE STRAWBERRY LEAF-ROLLER IN KENTUCKY. 
In Agricultural Science, Vol. v (pp. 211-212), Mr. H. Garman has an 
article on the Strawberry Leaf-roller (Phoxopteris comptana), in which 
he adds to our knowledge of the life-history of this insect and describes 
and figures the egg. The author’s observations prove conclusively the 
existence of three, and only three, broods of the insect in his locality, 
a fact which was partially proven for southern [linois by Forbes in his 
thirteenth report as entomologist of Dlinois. The life-history, accord- 
ing to Mr. Garman, is for Kentucky, in brief, about as follows: 
Oviposition for the first brood takes place the last week in April, the 
larve hatching the last week in May, and attaining full growth by the 
first week of June. Pupation takes place soon afterward and the moths 
appear from June 11-26. The second brood appears the first week in 
July, the larve becoming full grown the last week of that month, and 
during the first week of August the moths emerge. The larve of the 
third brood begin work about September 1, remain on the plants until 
cold weather, when they seek shelter for pupation. The adults emerge 
at the appearance of warm weather, but most of them do not appear 
until the middle of April. 
