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An examination at this office showed them to be wingless agamie 
females of a species of the genus Tychea, and to have no connection 
whatever with Phorodon. But our determination reached Washington 
after the matter got into print, and the Post-Intelligencer of Seattle 
published a long account, under some startling headlines, claiming 
that the Entomologist of this Department had made a mistake in the 
life-history of the Hop Louse, and that the insects found in the soil were 
the stem-mothers of Phorodon humuli. Mr, 8S. A. Tonneson, the Secre- 
tary of the State Board of Horticulture of Washington, in an interview 
reported in this article, is more guarded in his statements than the 
headlines of the article would indicate, and acknowledges the possi- 
bility of a mistake. Sooner or later the hop growers of Washington 
and Oregon will realize all we have said on this subject is true, and 
that one of the best ways to fight the Hop Plant-louse is to destroy the 
first generation on plum trees early in the spring with the kerosene 
emulsion. 
MORE CALIFORNIA NOTES. 
The State inspectors have been actively enforcing the quarantine 
laws, and, as we learn from the Pacific Rural Press of January 9, during 
the preceding week large numbers of diseased fruit trees imported from 
the East were seized and condemned. Peach Yellows and the Plum 
Curculio were the principal pests found. Trees to the value of $5,000 
were condemned. Protests by eastern nurserymen were sent in and 
claims made that neither the Peach Yellows nor the Plum Curculio 
would flourish in California. The same point was raised, it will be re- 
membered, a year or so ago with regard to the Florida species of Mytil- 
aspis upon Orange, viz, the Purple Scale and the Long Scale, but we 
notice from the California Fruit Grower of January 23 that John Scott, 
Horticultural Commissioner of Los Angeles County, has proven “ be- 
yond a doubt” that the Purple Scale will thrive in California and that 
trees brought into the State three or four years ago are now covered 
with the pests. The Anaheim Gazette is responsible for the statement 
that the cold snap in December or January killed off many Red Scales 
in the Anaheim region. Seedlings, which had been badly infested, 
were found after the cold snap without a sign of scale upon them. The 
frost was supposed to have killed them and the subsequent rains to 
have washed them off. 
A HONEY BEE ENEMY IN CALIFORNIA. 
Our agent, Mr. D. W. Coquillett, of Los Angeles, Cal., has sent us 
specimens of the Heteropteron Apiomeris flaviventris which he has seen 
feeding upon honey bees. Both the adults and the nymphs were en- 
gaged in this destructive occupation. 
