. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 2G li • 14 —Rmbilia i-rr. y<v — eijUr^ (alicr Riley). were all preying upon Icerya. They were sent to Nelson and placed under tent with the Scales. A few days later, how- ever, the wind took away the tent and nothing more has been seen since of the Cocciuellids. Several species of these beetles which Mr. Maskell kindly presented me with were left with you at Washington. Amongst them I could not find the RodoUa iceri/(e, Jauson (Fig. 14), which is destroying the Scales at the Cape and, with the j^ossible exc
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 2G li • 14 —Rmbilia i-rr. y<v — eijUr^ (alicr Riley). were all preying upon Icerya. They were sent to Nelson and placed under tent with the Scales. A few days later, how- ever, the wind took away the tent and nothing more has been seen since of the Cocciuellids. Several species of these beetles which Mr. Maskell kindly presented me with were left with you at Washington. Amongst them I could not find the RodoUa iceri/(e, Jauson (Fig. 14), which is destroying the Scales at the Cape and, with the j^ossible exception of one species, I do not think they will feed upon Icerya. My time was too short to visit Nelson, and Mr. Maskell kindly promised to secure for me a box full of scales from that district, so as to enable me to find out whether some parasites or enemies existed there. This box was sent to me on board the steamer at Auckland and, on opening the same, several flies were found that had issued en route. Only one of them was in perfect condition ; all the others were crippled. They had crawled in among the paper used in making up the parcel. No other specimens were bred and no holes were observed in the scales, so the only possibility remains in the larva of this fly being predaceous upon the eggs of Icerya. Apart from these flies no other insects were observed from the Nelson Scales. On my return to Napier I got at once to work gathering the Cocciuellids in all stages. They were in such numbers that I found it not very difficult to collect here about six thousand specimens during the three days (February 14 to IG). As many as eight eggs of the Lady-bird were observed on the upper side of the female Icerya just beginning to exude cottony matter. Oppo- site to this on the small branch of Acacia, five young of the Lady-bird were feeding on the underside of a half-grown jscale; in one instance even nine Coccinellid larvie were Ibund attached to a small Icerya. The ma
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