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the damage consequently including extensive loss of 
timber, ruin of valuable fruit crops, and general loss 
and disfigurement of ornamental shrubs, &c. 
In Mr. M. Cooke’s 4 Injurious Insects of California ’ 
he says* :—“ This species of scale-insect I consider the 
most dangerous of any that infests fruit and other trees 
in California, as it may he said to be a general feeder : 
it is found on all varieties of citrus trees, deciduous 
fruit trees, on many varieties of ornamental trees, forest 
trees, and shrubs ; also on some varieties of vegetables.” 
Prof. H. Comstock mentions that he “found this 
species first during the summer of 1880, in a grove of 
180 lime trees, at Santa Barbara, California. The 
trunks and limbs were in many cases so completely 
covered as to appear white, the leaves were turning 
yellow, and the tree was apparently dying. They had 
spread to surrounding orange orchards”; and in the 
following year “ they were spreading with amazing 
rapidity.” 
Australian Bug. 
Cluster of female bugs, photographed from life at Adelaide, South 
Australia, by Frazer S. Crawford, Esq.f 
The three figures of clusters of “Australian Bug,” 
* “Injurious Insects of the Orchards, Vineyard,” &c. By Matthew 
Cooke, late Chief Executive Horticultural Officer of California. Sacra¬ 
mento, 1883. 
f I am indebted for the above characteristic figure, as well as for those 
of the much magnified larva and female (pp. 15, 16) to the courtesy of 
Mr. Frazer Crawford, Inspector under the Vine, Fruit, and Vegetable 
Protection Act, and Government Lecturer on Economic Entomology 
in S. Australia, who has paid much attention to this pest.—E. A. 0. 
