28 [februai-y, 



Described from tliree examples found ou blades of grass. Cam- 

 berley, July, 1915. 



Differs from L. brevicornis in its exposed habitat, its woolly 

 (instead of glassy) covering, its more elongate form, and its well- 

 developed limbs and antennae. 



GossYPARiA TJLMi Geoffroy. 



Prof. Newstead, in his " Monograph of the British Coccidae,'' 

 maLes no reference to this species, and it has not generally been 

 accepted as a British insect. The late J. W. Douglas, however, 

 remarks (Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. XXII, p. 159, December, 1885), that 

 " Stepliens, in his ' Catalogue of British Insects,' gives the name of 

 many species of Coccidae, of which no recent record of their occurrence 

 in Britain exists, and it is very desirable that the statement should 

 be verified." Amongst the names specified is " Gossyparia ulmi." 



I am now able to re-instate this species as a British insect, on the 

 strength of specimens received from Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, who collected 

 them ou a Cornish elm at Farnham, Surrey. 



Though a very distinctive one, the insect is inconspicuous, and might 

 be easily overlooked. It might even be mistaken for the pupa of a 

 Coccinellid beetle, the curious upturned fringe of secretionary matter 

 (vide fig. 4) being suggestive of the remains of the larval skin that 



Fig. 4. 



surrounds the pupae of certain CoccineUidae. I give an enlarged 

 figure of the insect, as it appears on the rough bark of the elm, in the 

 hope that it may be recognised in other localities. 



Of other British Coccidae that have come under my notice during 

 the current year, the following observations may be recorded. 



