296 [December, 



fern, Stroud (C. J. W.). L. hesperidum, var. alieiium, Douglas, ? on leaves of a 



greenhouse rose, September, 1890 (C. J. W.)- L. hemispheericum, Targioni- 



Tozzetti, 9 on maidenhair fern in a sitting room, August, 1892 (C. J. W.)- ^• 



persicw, Geof., common at Witcombe (R. N.) ; ? on young shoots of a greenhouse 



rose, Stroud (C. J. W.). L. bitubercidatum, Targioni-Tozzetti, ? common on 



hawthorn near Gloucester, evidently a very local species (R. N). 



Physokermes abietis, Geoff., $ on spruce fir, and common in some localities, as 

 Cheltenham, Witcombe, &c. (R. N.), Painswick (C. J. W.). 



Apterococcus fraxini, Newstead, ? on ash bark, much less common in Glouces- 

 tershire than in the north-western districts of England (R. N.). 



Asterolecanium variolosum, Ratz., sparingly on the Cotteswolds between Chel- 

 tenham and Cranham (R. N.) ; $ on dwarf oaks, Stockend, near Painswick (C. J. W.)- 



Eriococcus inslgnis, Newstead, ? on grass sparingly at Cranham (R. N.). 



Cryptococcus fagi, Barensprung, ^ on beech, Forest of Dean, common, but 

 scarce in Witcombe district (R. N.). 



JJactylopius citri, Risso (= D. destructor, Comstock), common mealy bug, 

 ? on various plants under glass (R. N., C. J. W.). D. longispinus, Targioni- 

 Tozzetti, on various plants under glass (R. N.). 



Pseudococcus aceris, Signoi'ct, sparingly on various shrubs, Gloucester district 

 (R. N.). 



Orthezia cataphravta, Shaw, not common near Cheltenham (R. N.). 



Newsteadia floccosa, De Geer (= Orthezia Jloccosa), abundant on the dry 

 Oolitic escarpements of the Cotteswolds between Cheltenham and Birdlip (R. N.)- 



Painswick : October, 1903. 



WHAT IS THE NATIVE COUNTRY OF ECTOPSOCUS BRIOGSl, 



McLach. ? 

 BY ROBERT McLACHLAN, F.R.S., &c. 



This pretty little Psocid, although described so recently as 1899, 

 is obtaiuiiig au uulooked-for notoriety. It has been found in five or 

 six localities in the south of England, amongst fallen leaves, and always 

 in autumn and winter. This year Dr. Giiuther Enderlein, of Berlin, 

 who is doing grand work in Fsocidce, has published a remarkable 

 illustrated memoir on " Die Copeognatheu (= Psocidce) des indo- 

 australischeu Faunengebietes," and includes^. Brigfjsi (p. 294, pi. vii, 

 fig. 47) on the authority of a specimen from Sydney, N. S. VV^., taken 

 there in October, 1900, by the Hungarian collector Biro. On the 

 strength of this he suggests that the species may have been brought 

 to England from Australia. But it so happens that I have for some 

 time possessed (but have not hitherto i*ecorded) several examples from 

 Salisbury, Mashonaland (South Central Africa), taken by Mr. G. A. 

 K. iVIarshall in June, 1900, from whom I received them. E. Brigysi 

 in England is decidedly a cold-loving species, and as Salisbury is 



