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Dr. Fyles calls Abbot's plate "quite a fancy sketch!" — presumably 

 because the larva is represented as feeding on the mulberry, but I have 

 no doubt it does, it is such a general feeder, — almost universal. Dr. 

 Howard says. 



Dr. Fyles's reference to Walker's description of what he took to be 

 cunea, and what was doubtless punctatissima, is without weight, as I have 

 mentioned above. 



Drury only figured and described the ^ of cunea. 

 Dr. Fyles seems to measure the expanse of moths from tip to tip as 

 set according to the present fashion. This is misleading, and the 

 measurement should be taken from the tip of wing to centre of thorax and 

 doubled. 



Dr. Fyles certainly sticks to his guns with a tenacity not surpassed 

 by the Boers in the Transvaal, and asserts that even if his Gomin 

 specimen is prima, Slosson, it only proves that the latter is a synonym of 

 cunea, Drury ! 



Dr. Fyles sums up the matter by stating that he is convinced that 

 Hyphantria textor, Harris, is not one and the same with Bombyx cunea, 

 Drury, and in this I am inclined to agree with him, but surely such a 

 statement was unnecessary after declaring Bombyx cunea, Drury, to be a 

 Spilosoma. 



FOUR NEW COCCID.E FROM ARIZONA. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERELL, N. M. AGR. EXP. STA. 



Dactylopius Irishi, sp. n. 



$ . — Adult dark red, forming a very convex chalk-white ovisac about 

 3 millim. long and 2^ high, the sacs clustered on the twigs of the plant 

 at the nodes, from two to ten at a node. Eggs and newly-hatched larvae 

 pale yellow. 



Adult 9 J after being boiled and flattened on a slide, nearly circular, 

 about 2 mm. long. The insects do not stain the liquor potassas on boil- 

 ing, but the body contains a dull crimson pigment, partly retained in 

 boiled specimens. 



Skin with many small round glands, which in lateral view lock like 

 truncate spines. Dermal hairs very few and small. No lateral patches 

 of spines. Caudal lobes completely obsolete, marked only by a pair of 

 short stout spines on each side. Hairs on anal ring comparatively short 



