1892. J 69 



Xtlopeilus brevicoenis, Ferris. 



^ . Moderately elongate, narrow, parallel ; pitchy-brown, the head black, the 

 antennae fusco-testaceous, with the three basal joints and the apical one paler, the 

 legs entirely testaceous ; the upper surface clothed with fine greyish pubescence, 

 the elytra moderately shining, the head and prothorax dull. Head very finely, 

 rather sparsely punctured ; the eyes unemarginate, separated by a space about equal 

 to three-fifths of the breadth of the head ; antennae thickening outwardly, stout, 

 short, extending very little beyond the base of the prothorax, joint 1 incrassate, 

 conical, 2 rather narrower, submoniliform, 3 slightly longer than 2, 4 — 10 strongly 

 transverse, 7 — 10 wider than 6, 11 nearly twice as long as 10, ovate ; prothorax 

 moderately convex, about as long as broad, parallel at the sides behind, densely and 

 rugulosely punctured, and with a deep transverse basal groove, which is interrupted 

 in the middle by a distinct dorsal carina ; elytra elongate, parallel, each with a 

 deep oblique depression below the base, densely and rather coarsely punctured, the 

 punctuation becoming still coarser towards the base and finer towards the apex j 

 the posterior femora angularly dilated on the lower side beyond the middle. 



11, Caldervale Road, Clapham, S.W. : 

 February/ 8th, 1892. 



MiaRATIONS AND NEW LOCALITIES OF SOME COCCIDS. 

 BY W. M. MASKELL, F.R.M.S. 



It may, perhaps, be not without interest and value to record now 

 the occurrence of some scale-insects in countries different from those 

 in which they were at first reported. Some day European entomo- 

 logists will begin to think seriously of giving attention to these insects, 

 and every note regarding them will then be useful. In these days of 

 steam and rapid transit all sorts of insects are being carried about 

 from country to country much more extensively than at any previous 

 period : some travel in the straw and litter of packing cases, some in 

 the luggage or clothes of passengers, some (very often) in the bunches 

 of flowers and specimens of plants taken on board ship by tourists ; 

 and they have not time to die before they are landed in a new country 

 and set free. The list which I now give will be, of course, incomplete 

 in a short time, as new arrivals appear so frequently. It contains, 

 however, some of the most troublesome pests with which cultivators 

 have to deal ; and it shows how these have already travelled far and 

 wide. I give here only such insects as have come under my own 

 personal observation ; I think it might be useful if from time to time 

 similar comprehensive lists were compiled by entomologists in different 

 countries. 



