1899.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 269 



Eriococcus ericae Sign. 



Finding in the collection of the Dept. Agriculture a slide of 

 this species from F, Richter, of Moutpellier, I give the measure- 

 ments (in //-) of the antennse and legs. 



Antennal segments: (1) 30, (2) 36, (3) 36, (4) 21, (5) 18, 

 (6) 28. 



Legs: coxa, 86; femur + trochanter, 133; tibia, 73; tarsus, 

 109; claw, 12. 



Longest dermal spines about 43 /v.. 



Asterolecaninm epidendri (Bouche). 



Lecaniuin epidendri Bouche, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1844; p. 300 (not L. eipi- 

 rfewcZr?; Bouche, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1851, p. 112). 



The 9 described by Bouche is evidently our ^. oncidii ; it is 

 said to be probably from the West Indies. Bouche' s cf is perhaps 

 some other species. 



Asterolecanium rhamni Kieffer. 



Bull. See. Ent. France, 1898, pp. 214, 215, figs. 



Found on Rhamnus in Algeria, forming galls. This supposed 

 Coccid is manifestly a psyllid, and Mr. Schwarz, to whom I showed 

 the description and figures, immediately recognized it as a Trioza. 



Asterolecanium variolosum (Ratzeburg). 



Asterolecanium qiiercicola Sign, et Auctt. (not Lecaninm quercicola 

 Bch.). 



Coccus variolosus "Ratzeburg MS.," Hagen, Canad. Entom., 1837, p. 60 

 (no descr.). 



Lecanium qiiercus *'L." (not of Linne), Altum, Forstzoologie, iii, 

 Insecten, 1881, p. 365. 



Coccus variolosus Ratzeburg, Tharander Jahrbuch, xx, 1870, p. 187 (not 

 seen ; fide Judeich and Nitsche). 



Coccus quercicola ''Sign.," Judeich and Nitsche, Lehrbuch der Mitteleur. 

 Forstinsektenkunde, Vol ii, 1895, p. 1252 (good figures). 



Asterodi((sj)is variolosus Boas, Dansk Forstzoologi, 1896-98, p. 395, fig. 



Bouche described his quercicola as elevated, rough and dark 

 brown. Whatever it may have been, it was hardly the A.sfer- 

 olecaniam. The name proposed by Ratzeburg is very appropriate. 



KERMES Boitard. 

 Manuel d'Entomologie, Vol. ii, 1828, pp. 171, 172. 



The name Kermes had been used in a popular sense from early 

 times, but Boitard is the first author I find using it as a genus in 

 scientific nomenclatu re. He includes in it Kermes variegahis, K. 



