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ing forms named in this paper Lecanium baccatuiii and Colo- 

 stoma immane. ' I was always in hopes that Mr. Crawford 

 would himself describe these species ; but I suppose time did 

 not permit him to do so. He was not greatly inclined to 

 systematize : his chief work lay more in the direction of the 

 economical part of science — entomological or fungological. In 

 his treatment of that lies his principal claim to the remem- 

 brance of the world, and it would be difficult to exaggerate the 

 importance of his labours and the debt of gratitude which 

 agriculturists in every country really owe to him. If Crawford 

 had not persistently and eagerly followed out the study of 

 parasitic entomology, if he had not discovered and made known 

 the existence and value of the fly Lcstophonus iceryce, the 

 United States Government would not have despatched Mr. 

 Koebele to collect the parasites of Icerya in Australia, and the 

 clearance of California from that pest by means of Vedalia 

 cardinalis would not have been effected. Whether, later on, 

 the work of Vedalia in New Zealand would litive been noticed 

 and made use of, is uncertain. But the introduction of that 

 sj)lendid enemy to Icerya into America in 1889 was due 

 primarily to the work of F. S. Crawford, and I thmk there is 

 no harm in emphasizing here this fact, because it is a natural 

 tendency of people nowadays to forget their benefactors 

 unless pointedly reminded of them. For my own part, I am 

 glad to express here, as a systematist who has not been greatly 

 devoted to the purely " economic " side of entomology, pre- 

 ferring rather the scientific side, my admiration for one who 

 dedicated himself so thoroughly to studies more near to the 

 immediate needs of the agriculturists than my own may have 

 been. 



The species herein recorded from India have been sent to 

 me at various times by Mr. Cotes, of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, and by the late Mr. T. W. Atkinson, Accoun taut- 

 General of Bengal, who was an enthusiastic student of the 

 Bhynchota, and whose loss last year is much to be deplored. 

 The descriptions and figures which I have sent in return to 

 these gentlemen are, as I understand, awaiting publication in 

 the "Indian Museum Notes." I have included the species in 

 this pa]3er because I am not at all able to feel certain of my 

 power to publish any more of these systematic notes on 

 Coccids, which have now appeared, either in New Zealand or 

 Australia, pretty constantly during the last fourteen years ; 

 and it seemed desirable to gather up, so to speak, all disjecta 

 membra. 



My New Zealand species are again mostly due to Messrs. 

 Eaithby and Cavell, and I think that they are not deficient in 

 interest. The curious species Ripersia formicicola I owe to 

 the kindness of Mr. W. W. Smith, of Ashburton. 



