126 [June, 



(in Jul}') consisted of adult females with ovisacs, and a few empty 

 male puparia. 



Parafairmairia gracilis Green. 



Not previously found outside the Camberley district, this insect has 

 now been taken at Horsley (SurreyJ and at Shrewsbm-y. 



Lecanopsisformicarum Newst. 



Mr. Tomlin has sent me a single example of this species, taken in a 

 nest of Lasiiis niger, in Guernsey. I believe that this is the first record 

 of the species outside England. Newstead's examples were all taken on 

 the Chesil Beach (Dorset), from nests of the same ant. 



Diaspis rosae Sandb. 

 Plants of Cycas revoluta, in the Palm House, at the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, are heavily infested (on the under surface of the fronds) with a 

 Coccid that I am unable to differentiate from Diaspis rosae, except that 

 the covering scale is that of a Chionaspis of the section Phenaeas'pis, the 

 exuviae projecting well beyond the margin. In all other examples of 

 D. rosae that I have examined the exuviae have been intramarginal. 



Diaspis zainiae Morg. 



This species was found, occurring spar.sely, on various Cycads at 

 Kew, viz., on Cycas revoluta, Diooii ediile, Macrozamia macleayi, 

 jEnccphalai'fos horriJics, E. viUosiis, and JE. longifolius. 



Foliaspis gaultheriae, n. sp. 



Female pnparium snowy white, smooth, \\\\\\ a silky plieen. Larval 

 pellic-le exposed ; pale str<iiiiiiieoii.s. N^'mplial pellicle more or less concealed, 

 its pofiterior extremity ochreous. Pupariiiin narrowed anteriorly, but broadly 

 and roundly extended beliind. Average length 2 mm. 



Adult female at first light yellow, later inclining to orange-yellow. 

 Broadly ovate, narrower in front. Both anterior and posterior spiracles with 

 large multicellular parstigiuatic glands (fiii-. 0, a). Pygidium (tigs. 6, i, and 

 7, h) with divergent median lobes recessed within the margin; their free 

 edges minutely serratulate, their bases coutiuent. There are two small but 

 prominent tubercles between the lobes, each bearing a small spine. First 

 lateral lobes duplex, the two lobules completely separated from each other; 

 the inner lobule larger and more prominent, extending inwards to a point 

 level with the base of the median lobes. Other lobes absent. Slender spijii- 

 form squames in the usual positions. Marginal pores large and conspicuous. 

 Circumgenital glands in eight groups, forming two concentric arches, the upper 

 tirch containing three groups, the lower series five. The median group of the 

 upper series contains from 2-13 pores (average 5) ; the lateral groups with 



