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HOMOPTKRA. 



Lecaiiiiim sarotha/niii, n. sp., J. W. Douglas, I^.M.M., 65. Hereford, 

 found by Dr. Chapman on broom. 



Lecanium ciliaium, n. sp , J. W. Douglas, E.M.M., 67. Devon and 

 Delimere Forest, on oak. — \\ D. .\. Cockericll. 



(gURRENT NOTES. 



A Special Index, containing every reference to the various species 

 mentioned in Vol. I. of The Entomologisf s Record afid Journal oj 

 Variation, will be ready for issue in a few da\s, ]3rice is. Ai)plication 

 should be made at once to Mr. A. J. Hodges, 2, Highbury Place, N. 



Lord Walsingham, in his Address to the Fellows of the Entom- 

 ological Society, said : "Already we have to welcome a new publica- 

 tion, The Entomologisf s Record and Journal of Variation^ edited by 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt. ... An especially interesting line of inquiry as con- 

 nected with the use and value of colour in insects, is that which has 

 been followed up in Mr. Tutt's series of papers on ' Melanism and 

 Melanochroism' in The Entomologist's Record." 



The Annual Exhibition of the South London Entomological Society 

 will be held at the " Bridge House " Hotel, on Wednesday and 

 Thursday Evenings, the 15th and i6th of April next. Tickets from 

 the Secretary, 83, Brayard's Road, Peckham, S.E. 



The London and Provincial Societies are all apparently in a very 

 active state just now. The Miana epidemic has touched Liverpool ; 

 we expect to hear of its arrival in Scotland very shortlv. Mr. F. N* 

 Pierce, at a meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 

 Society, considered that he could distinguish M. strigilis and M. 

 fasciuncula by the structure of the genital armature. 



fgOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — March ^th, 1891, — The 

 Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A,, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited, and made remarks on, a curious 

 Coleopterous larva with a case somewjiat resembling that of the 

 Lepidopterous genus, Psyche, which was found [at the Theatre of 

 Bacchus, Athens. Mr. J. W. Douglas sent for exhibition specimens of 

 Icetya ( Crossafossonta) cegy/'tiaca, which, through tiie kindness of Mr. 

 A. D. Michael, he iiad received from Alexandria on the 19th January 

 last It was stated that in travelling most of them had become loose, 

 and had lost their waxen appendages ; but a few still remained on the 

 stems of their foodjjlant. In connection with this subject, .Mr. G. H. 

 Verrall alluded to a Dipterous parasite of fcerya I'roin Adelaide — 

 Lestophorais iceryce, Willi^ton --which had been bred fiom /cerya pur- 

 chasi, Mask., last February. .Mr. McLachlan and Lord ^Vai^i^ghaal 



