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camellia from Japan, and sent to me l)y IMr. Ehrliorn. The tea plant, 

 Camellia ihei/era, also produces several coccids. Maskell reports from 

 it Geroplastes eeriferus, Anderson, and in America Comstock records 

 Cerojdasfe.s foridoisiSj Coinstock. Mr. E. C. Cotes lias published^ a 

 useful account of the insects which attack the tea plant in India; the 

 coccids he gives as follows: CMonaspis thecv, Maskell, Aspidiotus fiaves- 

 cens, Green (syn. A. ihea\ Maskell), A. iransparens., Green, Lecanium 

 coffcfc, Nietner. Green has recorded that Lecanium virlde, Green, is 

 occasionally found upon tea. According to Green in a letter to the 

 writer, also, his Aspidiotus fanescens is a J}ias2)is, and therefore not 

 identical with Aspidiotus them., Maskell, which is a valid species. 

 Parlatori athea', Cockerell, occurs on the tea plant in Jai)an. 



DIPTEROCARPE.^. 



An order of tropical trees. Two species of Sltorea are infested by 

 Taehardia Jarea, Kerr, in India. 



MALVACE.^. 



A world wide order, made familiar by such i)lants as cotton and 

 Ilibiscns. riaf/itintJnis and //o/ie;/Vr are antii)()dean genera; the former 

 supports Ctenochifoii deprcssiis, JMaskell, the latter, Eriococcus hohcriw, 

 Maskell, Fiorinia strieta, Maskell, and Ghionaspis dysoxyli, Maskell. 

 The species of the latter genus is ff. popnlnca, A. Ounninghani (syn. 

 anf/usti folia, Raoul). The Indian Kydia cahjeina, lioxburgh, is one of 

 the food plants of Taehardia lacca, Kerr. The forms of Ahnfilon in 

 cultivation offer exogenetic coccids; thus Lounsbury reports Orthezia 

 insignis, Douglas, Coquillett Lecanium olew, Bernard, and Gillette 

 and Baker give a record of Lecanium hcsperidum, Linna'us. In 

 England, IS^ewstead found Lecanium minimum, Xewstead. Malva- 

 viscus also is infested by Othezia insiiinis, Douglas; while in Mexico 

 M. arhorcus, Cavanilles, and M. acenfolius, Presl, supi)ort Ccroplastes 

 ceriferus, Anderson (syn, or var. dugesii). The latter insect was found 

 by Professor Townsend at Cuautla, Mexico, on Ilibiscns. 



The various varieties of cultivated ITibiscus are decidedly subject to 

 coccid attacks. In the West Indies they suffer especially from Lecanium 

 depressum, Targioui-Tozzetti ; but also from Chionaspis minor, IMaskell, 

 of which there is a curious variety having the habit of burrowing 

 under the epidermis; this was found by Mr. Barber in Antigua. The 

 ordinary form of G. minor is sometimes excessively abundant on the 

 plants. Aspidiotus articulatus, Morgan, occurred on an Hibiscus labeled 

 H.purpureus forma semiplena; I am not clear whether this was H. pur- 

 purcns, Forster, which is not cited in Nicholson's Dictionary of Garden- 

 ing, or H. syriacus, Liuuieus forma purpureus Hortorum. According to 

 Eiley, Asterolecanium pustulans, Cockerell, is found on Hibiscus in 



Infl. Mns. Notes, 1895. 



