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directed posteriorly. I give a figure of C. Mexicanus Ckll., showing tlie 

 scale and the denuded female, the latter with the caudal horn visible. 



(3.) C. ceri/erus, Anderson, and its allies, in which the wax is very 

 thick, and the caudal horn, siill directed posteriorly, has become very 

 long, in order to reach the surface. I give a figure of the caudal horn. 



(4.) Ceroplastina, n. suhg.; type C. Lahillei. Wax abundant, 

 pushing the plates on to the dorsal surface ; ciudal horn mammiform, 

 directed upwards. Wa.x of different individuals often confluent. I give 

 dorsal and lateral views of the waxy scale, and a Literal view of the 

 denuded female. This subgenus may be considered to include other 

 species with a similar female, such as the S juih .vmerican C Bergi Ckll., 

 and tl.e African C. Africanus Green, and C. egbarutn Ckll. 



(5.) Ceroplastitiia, n. subg. ; type C. Ihuneri Ckll. (see figure 

 of denuded female). In this group the wax of the several individuals is 

 thick and always confluent, and the female has become high and narrow. 

 Strictly of this sub^jenus is C. candela Ckll. and King, from Natil. 



The occurrence of closely relitcd species of Ceroplastes in Africa 

 and .South America is noteworthy. These insects are arboreal, and it 

 seems just possible that they have been carried across the ocean on 

 floating trees, the wax serving to protect them from injury. It is perhaps 

 more probable, however, that they are of great antiquity, and have reached 

 the southern lands from the noMh. 



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The friends of the late Dr. Fletcher and many other Canadian ento- 

 mologists will be interested to know that the whole of his private 

 collection of insects is now deposited in the Division of Entomology, at 

 the Central Kxperimental Farm, Ottawa. After his death Mrs. Fletcher 

 asked the Honour.ible the Minister of .Agriculture to accept the collection 

 for the use of iht^ Department, which the Hon. Mr. Fisher was very 

 pleased to do. The collection is of a general character, but is particu- 

 larly rich in diurnal I.epidoptera, to the study of which Dr. I-'letchcr paid 

 particulir altctuion. It is being gradually worked into the collections of 

 the Division ; and in addiiion to the nu)unted specimens, there is a very 

 large amount of material in the shape of many hundreds of unmounted 

 specimens. The addition of this collection to the collections of the 

 Division of Kntomology will render them all the more valuable and 

 serviceable in the work of identifving Canadian insects for the many 

 correspondents in different parts of the Dominion, which is one of the 

 many useful functions the Division performs. — (C. Ci. H.) 



