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specimen ; d!M/-a;!M5, Linn., nettles, &c., Woking, not rare; a6ro^a«£, Dougl., southern- 

 wood, Woking, in garden ; Oermari, Zett., Scotch firs, Woking ; pulchellus, oaks, 

 Woking. 



Typhlocyha at/roytYi^a/a, Dough, and cm^o'^i, Dough, oaks, Woking ; geometrica, 

 Schr., sallows, Woking. 



Zygina flammigera, Geoffr., by beating, Woking ; parvuJa, Boh., by sweeping, 

 Chobham; scutellaris, H.-S., by sweeping, Woking. — E. Saunders, Woking: 

 June, 1892. 



Pulvinaria ribesice, Sign.— Mr. William Sang, of Bernard Castle, Durham, has 

 sent for identification several scales of the female of this Coccid, with the large, 

 white, silky ovisacs attached. He says, " In my garden a large red currant tree, 

 trained on a wall for a space of three yards by four, has the branches entirely 

 covered with the tenacious silken webs containing the eggs of the insects. On a 

 score of adjoining red currant trees I have only found one other example. Nothing 

 of the kind has been observed in the garden before the latter part of the spring of 

 this year." 



I have described this species in Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. i, n. s., p. 238, from speci- 

 mens forwarded by Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Huddersfield, and Miss E. A. Ormerod has 

 a long article about it, with illustrations, in her " Report" for 1889. The present 

 appearance is worth notice, the locality not having been previously recorded.— J. W. 

 Douglas, 153, Lewisham Road : July I2ih, 1892. 



Ripersia Tomlinii, New stead. —On May 17th last, under a stone on the Chesil 

 Bank, I took four specimens of a Coccid, which puzzled me very much; but the 

 June No. of the Ent. Mo. Mag. (p. 14B) showed me at once that they were Ripersia 

 Tomlinii. They were covered with white down, most of which got rubbed off in 

 the box. There were no ants under the stone, but plenty of Formica nigra under 

 other surrounding stones. I think my captures are worth recording, as Mr. New- 

 stead's examples were from the Channel Islands.— C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton : 

 July 18th, 1892. 



[This is of interest, not only as an addition to the list of British Coccids, but 

 also as to the association of the species with ants, only in some cases at least. Mr. 

 Newstead's examples were found in nests of ants (species not ascertained), and Mr, 

 W. W. Smith records (p. 60, ante) the occurrence, in New Zealand, of a new species 

 of Ripersia, which Mr. Maskell has described and figured as R.formicicola, in the 

 "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1891," p. 38, pi. viii, figs. 4— 7, in 

 allusion to its habitat in the nests of two species of ants {Tetramorium) . It remains 

 to be ascertained what is the species of ant with which our new Ripersia has been once 

 found, and what is the nature of the connection between the ant and Coccid. There 

 is one species of Tetramorium in Britain, and it may be the fostering one. — J. W. D.] 



Orthezia urticce, <J . — With reference to the capture of this on May 25tb, as 

 recorded at p. 192, ante, I think that date is Father early. I took one last year on 

 July 15th, and my father took one on June 29th, 1848. — Id. 



[All these dates for the appearance of the males are to me inexplicable, because 

 I have repeatedly found the females at the end of May, with the marsupium full of 

 eggs or larvae ; what, then, were the males required for? — J. W. D.] 



