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Parlatoria pergandri Comsf. 



Mr. J. C. F. Fryer has seut me living examples of this species, on 

 branches of Japanese maple. They were collected in an auction room 

 in London. 



PaLATORIA PROTEUS CuvtlS. 



Plants of Vanda teras, in an orchid house at Wisley, were found 

 to be thickly infested by this species. 



Lecanium ciliatum Douglas. 



This fine endemic species is far from common, and has hitherto 

 been recorded from three counties only : Devonshire, Cheshire, and 

 Kent. These three points enclosing, as they do, a huge triangle, 

 occupying practically the whole of England, it is probable that a 

 careful search would show that the insect is w'idely distributed 

 throughout the intervening coimties. 1 have now to add Camberley 

 (Surrey) to the list of localities. 



Lecanium persicae Geoffroy. 



In August last I received from Mr. Hugh Scott specimens of a 

 Lecanium upon leaves of an Aralia, said to be " growing permanently 

 out of doors." I am unable to separate it from L. persicae, though 

 (probably owing to its habitat on the leaves of the plant) these 

 examples are of an unusually flattened form. Some of them show a 

 tendency for the antennae to become 8- jointed, through a more or less 

 complete separation of the terminal part of the 4th joint. 



Eriopeltis festucae Fonsc. 



I was surprised to find examples of this species on November 10th 

 that had not yet deposited their eggs. Ovipositing usually takes place 

 early in July and continues through August, by the end of which 

 month most of the females have deserted their ovisacs. The examples 

 found in November may possibly represent a second brood. 



LuZULASPIS TiUZULAE Duf. 



The same remarks apply to this species, of Avhich fresh gravid 

 females were found on the same date. 



