392 Transactions. — Zoology. 



For the foregoing reasons I have to abandon L. jnngne as 

 a distinct form and to classify the species anew as follows, 

 regarding its general features : — 



L. scrohiculatum, type. — Adult female convex, colour 

 brownish-yellow or reddish-brown; epidermis bearing 

 very nuinerous pits ; feet not abnormally short ; dorsum 

 with four to six circular tubercles. 

 L. scrohicnlattivi, var. jnngite. — Adult female convex, 

 colour reddish-brown ; epidermis bearing very nume- 

 rous pits ; feet atrophied ; dorsum with four to six 

 ciixular tubercles. 

 ^ L. scrohiculatum, var. Icve, var. nov. — Adult female convex, 

 colour usually dull-yellow or brownish-yellow, with 

 dull-red patches ; epidermis bearing many pits (but 

 less numerous than in the type) ; feet atrophied ; dor- 

 sum without any circular tubercles. 



The second stage of the female, the larva, and the test of 

 the male pupa do not seem to vary sufficiently in these forms 

 to require separate description. The first and third are de- 

 scribed in my paper of 1892, and the larva in my paper of 1894 

 under L. jjingice. 



My specimens of var. leve were sent by Mr. Froggatt on 

 Acacia longifolia, from Manly, near Sydney. 



Lecanium mori, Signoret. 



I have to report this species as plentiful on gorse {Ulex 

 eJiropcBus) and broom {SjMrtium or Genista) at Fairlie, South 

 Canterbury, New Zealand. My specimens were sent by Mr. 

 T. Kirk. 



1 mentioned L. ^nori first in 1884 as occurring in New Zea- 

 land on Alsophila ; and in 1893 here also on Aspleniiim and 

 other ferns. The gorse and broom on which I now record it 

 are, of course. European, and, if my recollection serves iiie 

 correctly, there is not nmch, if any, native forest near Fairlie. 

 The anatomical characters of the insects, as I observed in 

 1893, correspond most exactly with those of Signoret's species. 

 The question arises as to the original country of L. mori. 

 Signoret's specimens were found upon mulberry (presumably) 

 in the south of France. That author does not himself mention 

 the plant, and it is within possibility that "mori" is not 

 meant to indicate the mulberry ; but, however that may be, I 

 have not found the species mentioned by any other writer as 

 occurring in Europe or elsewhere. Neither Mr. Douglas nor 

 Mr. Newstead reports it in England, although both have paid 

 much attention to the genus Lecanium. Possibly, however, 

 the species named L. assimile, Newst. (Ent. Mo. Mag., May, 

 1892, p. 141), may be the same or a variety. L. genista, 



