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clescriptiou thereof agreeing exactly with my example ; and I am the 

 more induced to this belief that in April Mr. P. Cameron of Sale sent 

 me, on a camellia leaf, two ovisacs of P. camellicoht, ? {^c.f. vol. xxii, 

 p. 159), to one of which the yellowish scale remained attached, and 

 with them a w'hite scale of the male, precisely like that from which 

 the male insect had emerged in February, but the perfect insect did 

 not now come out, having died in situ. Siguoret says that the scale 

 of P. cainellicola greatly resembles that of L. liesperidum, but the 

 female of the latter species is viviparous, and so has no ovisac internal 

 or external of the scale. 



On May 18th, though too late for male scales, I found sevei'al 

 female scales still attached to the peculiar, long, white ovisacs, forming 

 conspicuous objects on the under-side of leaves of camellias, at Mr. 

 Staiuton's ; so the species does not seem to be uncommon. 



8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 

 July 10th, 1886. 



CATEREMNA TEREBRELLA, ZK. ; A FRY C ID NEW TO TUE 

 BRITISH LIST. 



BY LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., F.L.S., &c. 

 PhTCITA TEREBRELLA, Ziuckeu. 



Germar & Zincken, Magazin d'Entomologie, iii, B. S., 1G2, No. 33. 



This species is Ko. 598, p. 229, in Staudinger and Wocke's Cata- 

 logue of the Lepidoptera of Europe, and is well figured by Herrich- 

 Schiiffer, vol. iv, fig. 199, under the name of Myelois terehrella. 

 Treitschke, who places it in the genus Phycis, quotes a good descrip- 

 tion of its habits in the larval stage, on the authority of Von Tischer. 



On the 26th of July I observed, near the garden here, some 

 small aborted cones on a well-grown tree of Abies Douglasii. These 

 cones usually formed part of a group of three or four, the others 

 being fully developed. They were from an inch to an inch and a half 

 in length, and had apparently become dried up and shrivelled before 

 the formation of the seeds or the growth of the woody scales. The 

 first I examined contained a living pupa, which was unfortunately 

 crushed : in the second I found a larva, and, as I immediately recog- 

 nised that its habits differed from those of Neplioperyx decurieUa, 

 Hb. {ahietella, S. V.), I collected as many as I could find, and within 

 the next two days specimens of a Phycid, obviously new to the 



