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 109.— SABAL MAURITIPORMIS, Gr. & Wendl. 



"The Carat." 



To this name we refer a common palm of Trinidad. The tree 

 grows to some 50 to 60 feet in height. The leaves are palmate in 

 form, sub -orbicular, and the lobes are cut two-thirds of their length 

 the entire portion being nearest to the leaf stalk. It is probably the 

 same as that known under the name of Sahal glaucescens, Lodd. 

 The under side of the leaf is glaucescent or whitish green. It is used 

 in the country districts for thatching the houses of the peasantry, for 

 which purpose it is very serviceable, cool and lasting. 



We have in the Gardens specimens of a stemless Sahal, which 

 seeds on pedicels the apex of which are not more than 4 feet high 

 from the ground. The leaves, however, are very much smaller and 

 stiffer, though much like in general appearance to Sahal Mauritice- 

 formis, G. & Wendl. It is possibly the species referred to by Grise- 

 bach in his Flora, p. 514, under Sabal. 



IIO.-COCCID^, OR SCALE INSECTS. 



In the December number of the Agricultural Record for 1892 I 

 gave a list of species of the scale insects of Trinidad so far as they had 

 then been examined by Mr. S. D. A. Cockerell. This list is now 

 reproduced with recent additions found in the Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 and elsewhere. 



(1.) Icerya montseratensis, Riley and Howard. On Clusia alba. See Insect 

 Life, IV., p., 407. 



(2.) Orthesia, sp, incert., on Crobon. See Jour. Triu. Field Nat. Club, 1892, 

 p. 64. See also Insect Life, IV. , p. 24. 



(3.) Orthesia proelonga, Douglas. On capsicum. See Ent. Mo. Mag., 1891, 

 p. 247. 



(4. ) Lecanium hemisphmricum, Targ. Tozz. ',0n guava. See Jour. Trin. Field 

 Nat. Club, 1892, p. 65. 



(5.) Ckionaspis citri, Comstock. On orange and lime. See Jour. Trin. Field 

 Nat. Club, 1892, p. 66. Insect Life, IV., p. 214. 



(6.) C/iionas^is mmor, Maskell. On Pelargonium. (Collected by J. H. Hart.) 



(7.) Aspidiotus, sp. incert. See Insect Life, IV., p. 24. 



(8.) Aspidiotus hiformis, Cockerell, n. sp. On Ejndendrum and Oncidium 

 sprucei. (Collected by J. H. Hart.) Scales dark; female scales cir- 

 cular or broadly oval, male scales much smaller, elongate, narrow. 

 Feniale with three pairs of terminal lobes. 



(9.) Mytilaspis citrocola, Packard. See Insect Life, IV., p. 214. 



(10.) Pinnaspis pandani, Comstock. On Pandanus, (Collected by J. H. Hart. 



