142 :May. 



On receiving the specimens I concluded they had been imported 

 Tvith the plant, and at once wrote Mr. Walker for information, who 

 liindly replied as follows : — '' I expect the Grindelia hirsuta is a native 

 of Mexico or thereabouts, but as the plant was raised from seed in 

 this country, and has been on my rockery for several years, I don't 

 think its native country is of any importance." It is probable, there- 

 fore, that the species is indigenous ; if not, it must have escaped from 

 other imported plants where the seedlings were raised. 



PULTINARTA PERSIC^, %. Sp. 



$ adult, immediately prior to gestation ; red-brown, thickly set with small, 

 confluent, blackish spots, and partly covered with short, white, woolly filaments, 

 cordate, narrowed in front to an obtuse point, widely rounded behind ; anal emar- 

 gination shallow; anal cleft deep, but completely closed, the margins forming a 

 narrow but well defined carina ; caudal scales very small, and much porrected ; 

 surface flat-convex, rugose at the sides. After gestation the scales become tilted 

 and so wrinkled to defy description. Antennae (fig. 3) of eight joints, of which the 

 3rd and 4th are the longest, and in length nearly equal. Legs (fig. 3a) strong; 

 coxa and trochanter each with a very long hair ; tarsus about half the length of the 

 tibia, the latter with several long hairs at apex. Digitules of the claw very stout, 

 and unequal. Rostrum short ; arising almost on a level with the insertion of the 

 anterior legs, and is a little more than twice as long as the antenna). Dermis with 

 numerous large oval and round cells. Margins with many stiff spines arranged 

 wide apart, except over the respiratory channels, where there are three much larger 

 ones, blunt, and one of them more than twice as long as the others (fig. '6b). 



Long, 5 — 6*25 mm. ; wide, 4 — 5-25 mm. The old shrivelled specimens are 

 generally as broad as long. 



Allied to P. vitis, of authors, but differs in the form of the claws 

 and the digitules. In P. vitis the latter are much more slender, and 

 the claw is toothed (Signoret, Essai, p. 221, pi. x, fig. la). The an- 

 tennae also differ in not having the unusually long hairs figured by 

 Signoret (/. c.) on joints 4 and 8. It is readily distinguished from P. 

 fremuJcB, Sign. (Essai, p. 221), in having the rostral filaments much 

 shorter, and in the form of the antennae. 



Hah. : on peach trees under glass. Received from Mr. Gel- 

 landers, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire, who says they are very 

 abundant. 



SiGNORETIA LUZUL^. 

 Aspidiotus ? luzulce, L. Dufour, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 3 Ser. iv, p. 208, pi. 5, fig. 4, 

 SIgnoretia luzulce, Signoret, Essai, p. 181, pi. vi, figs. 1, a, h, c. 

 {Signoretia clypeata, Targioni-Tozzetti, Cat., p. 34). 



S ■ Coral-red or dull red, scutellum darker ; eyes and ocelli black ; antennav. 

 legs and stylus paler ; wings narrow, nearly as long again as the body, and are of a 



