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cations of popular remedies for the arrest of the attack, without avail, 

 and had nearly determined upon taking up the entire crop and 

 destroying it, although it would be at a loss of about a thousand 

 dollars — the estimated value of the matured crop. The application 

 of bisulphide of carbon was recommended to him before an abandon- 

 ment of the crop; the result of the application, if made, was not 

 learned. 



Some of the above larvae, apparently full-grown, were placed in a 

 box with ground when received. Sixteen days thereafter, June twenty- 

 fourth, they gave forth the perfect fly. 



A Lady-bug Attack on Scale-insects. 

 A number of Austrian pines, Pinus Austriaca, in Washington park, 

 Albany, were observed, on October ninth, as having been very nearly 

 killed by an attack of the pine-leaf scale-insect, Ghionaspis pinifolii 



Fig. 36 — The pine-leaf scale-insect, Chionaspis pinifolii. 

 (Fitch). Millions of the peculiar white scales of this destructive species 

 had attached themselves to the leaves almost as thickly as they could 

 find place, to the extent of whitening the tree, and nearly hiding its 



