INSECT “BLIGHTS AND BLESSINGS.” 
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diately accepted, Professor Riley writing, “ Send me a ship-load 
if you can.” But I could not do that, so sent him a pill-box 
full, or about three thousand. These he carefully distributed 
to three of his entomological stations, and I had the satisfaction 
of hearing that a number had been successfully reared and 
apparently obtained a hold. 
As an instance of what can be done in this way I have only 
Fig. 24. 
to again mention Professor Riley’s most successful introduction 
of predaceous insects from Australia into the States for the pur¬ 
pose of destroying the Orange Scale insect. Such a work will 
long stand as a monument to Professor Riley, who was without 
doubt one of the greatest and most practical of economic ento¬ 
mologists ever known. 
Fig. 26 shows a cluster of eggs, each of which is suspended at 
the end of a long silken thread. These belong to the Golden- 
