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previous to this which I gave a second coat on the Qth, as there had been 

 a rain the next night after the application." I received, at my request, 

 specimens of the worst infested twigs, on which the scales were massed 

 so as to conceal the bark entirely, and here also I failed to find a single 

 living insect. I do not believe that we need quite despair of eradicating 

 the scale, provided we can bring the farmers to a realizing sense of the 

 importance of the matter, and this I think can be done in New Jersey at 

 least. 



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THE COTTON SCALE INSECT. In 1856, Fitch described as a new spe- 

 cies, Aspidiotus gossypii, found at Ningpo, China. This insect has not 

 been seen since, but the short description might apply to immature speci- 

 mens of some Chionaspis or Diaspis. All things considered, I should 

 prefer to place it in the former genus, pending its rediscovery on the origi- 

 nal food-plant at the original locality, or an examination of the types if 

 they still exist. The purpose of this note is partly to draw attention to the 

 species, and perhaps so lead to its re-discovery; but also to protest against 

 the introduction of the name into our faunal lists, by Mr. Ashmead, as an 

 Aleyrodes. (Ins. Life, vol. vii, p. 323). What possible reason there can 

 be for identifying an Aleyrodes from Mississippi with Fitch's Chinese in- 

 sect, I cannot imagine. 



As having some bearing on the matter, I may add that at Kingston, 

 Jamaica, I found numbers of Chionaspis minor Mask., and Diaspis 

 amygdali form /anafus, on stems of cotton, mixed together. The orange- 

 red rf of Diaspis were hatching on Aug. 8, 1892. T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



