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in g attached  itself  to  some  plant  on  the  terrace  or  elsewhere  and 
having  had  for  some  reason  little  offspring  in  1898,  and  having 
made  connection  with  a citrus  plant  in  1899  it  had  a chance  to 
develop  freely. 
But  fortunately  at  this  time  the  results  which  had  been  obtained 
with  the  introduction  of  Novius  in  California  and  Portugal  were 
well  known;  therefore  Berlese  wrote  to  entomologists  of  these 
countries  and  by  their  courtesy  was  able  to  secure  living  speci- 
mens of  Novius , which  arrived  between  April  nth  and  June  26th,. 
1901.  The  first  ones  were  raised  in  appropriate  cages  and  their 
descendants  distributed  for  the  first  time  on  June  8th. 
Other  distributions  were  made  in  July.  The  result  of  this  in- 
troduction of  Novius  was  also  surprisingly  good  because  by  the 
end  of  1901  there  were  only  traces  of  Icerya  in  evidence. 
Afterwards  Icerya  spread  everywhere  in  the  surroundings  of 
Portici,  has  been  found  at  Nocera  dei  Pagani  and  as  far  as  Can- 
tanzaro  Lala  in  Calabria,  but  fortunately  it  is  followed  everywhere 
by  Novius  Cardinalis  so  that  up  to  now  it  has  always  been  kept 
down  by  it  to  a negligible  number. 
Let  us  hope  that  no  inimical  cause  may  come  to  us  to  make  war 
on  Novius  and  we  shall  have  nothing  to  fear  from,  Icerya  which 
within  a few  years  shall  have  spread  all  over  those  parts  of  Italy 
where  citrus  or  other  plants  in  which  it  delights  are  raised. 
ICERYA  PURCHASI  IN  SYRIA. 
In  a letter  which  Mr.  Selvin  Ali  Slam  wrote  to  the  laboratory 
of  entomology  at  Portici  is  stated  that  Icerya  made  its  appear- 
ance in  Syria  about  1905  and  in  July,  1907,  always  according  to 
Mr.  Ali  Slam,  it  had  spread  so  much  in  the  surroundings  of 
Beyrut  that  it  almost  destroyed  the  trees. 
He  applied  to  this  laboratory  for  specimens  of  Novius  and  I 
took  it  upon  myself  to  send  him  a shipment  in  July  and  another 
in  August.  These  multiplied  there  as  well  as  they  had  elsewhere 
and  Mr.  Ali  Slam  expressed  his  thanks  to  the  laboratory  at 
Portici. 
NOVIUS  CARDINALIS  AGAINST  ICERYA  AEGYPTIACA. 
The  news  of  the  great  result  which  had  been  attained  with 
Novius  in  America  in  fighting  Icerya  having  spread  everywheie, 
it  was  proposed  in  Egypt  to  try  the  introduction  of  the  same 
Novius  to  fight  another  species  of  Icerya,  L.  aegyptiaca  which  did 
great  damage  there  in  the  neighborhood  of  Alexandria,  especially 
to  citrus  and  fig  trees. 
Admiral  Blomfield  applied  to  Riley  for  living  specimens  of 
Novius  and  received  several  shipments  in  good  condition.  Novius 
in  the  presence  of  the  new  species  of  Icerya  behaved  the  same  as 
it  has  done  with  Icerya  purchasi  and  Blomfield  could  write  to 
