1897.] 



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It has no relation to Coccus, for in this latter the anal ring is 

 without hairs in amj stage (Cockerell must be mistaken in saying that 

 Coccus tomentosus has a setiferous anal ring). I have much pleasure 

 iu appending structural details, and also drawings. 



? adult. Antenna (fig. 2) highly chitinous, with wide articulations ; 3rd joint 

 with a spine. 



Mentum biarticulate. 



Anal ring of six hairs (fig. 3), the chitinous 

 portions in three equal parts ; each separated 

 from the other ; the orifice never circular, but 

 crescent-shaped, as in the genus Coccus. 



Legs short, chitinous, and scarcely longer 

 than the antennae ; tarsi longer than tibiae. 



Dermis (fig. 4), above with numerous 

 short conical spines. 



Anal lobes obsolete, in tlieir place a long 

 hair. 



Larva clearly dactylopid. 



Anal lobes obsolete ; indicated by hairs, 

 as in the adult. Antennae (fig. 1). 



Anal ring as in the adult, but all the parts 

 proportionately smaller. 



Dorsum with six rows of short conical spines, not truncate as in Coccus, 



Grosvenor Museum, Chester : 



November 26tk, 1896. 



[I am disposed to agree with Mr. Newstead, and am always glad 

 to have my errors of commission and omission corrected. — J. W. D.] 



The CEstrid of the Indian Elephant bred. — In the note on this subject which 

 appeared in this Magazine for September, 1896, p. 212, there is a mis-statement. As 

 a fact the larvae live in the stomach and intestines of their host, and pass out by the 

 latter. In Pharyngobolus they live in the throat. There are three different species 

 on the Elephant : — 



1. Cobboldia elephantis, Cobb. Indian Elephant. Larva and imago known. 



2. Cobboldia loxodontis. African Elephant. Larva known. 



3. Pharyngobolus africanus, Br. Larva in the throat of the African Elephant, and 



very different from those of the two former species, both of which live in the 

 stomach and intestines. Imago unknown. 

 — Fb. Beatjer, Vienna : December, 1896. 



Lipoptena cervi, Linn., in Dorset. — I have just received specimens of this fly from 

 my friend J. C. Mansel Pleydell, Esq., taken on his estate at Whatcombe, Dorset, last 

 summer off the roe deer. The only other English captures were two specimens in 



