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Zeit., V, p. 188 ; Boll., Mon. Cass., ii, p. 384, Suppl., p. 307 ; Sharp, Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 viii, p. 84 ; Rye, Ent. Ann., 1872, p. 91) as a British species. I have two specimens 

 taken by myself at Shipley, near Horsham, out of flood-rubbish from the Adur, and 

 which I had doubtfully for some time placed with C. sanguinolenta, and liad after- 

 wards removed from there, doubtful what to do with them. Lately, when revising 

 Mr. Lewis' Japanese Cassidce, I examined my British species again, and then saw 

 that these were quite distinct from any English species known to me. I accordingly 

 showed them to Dr. Sharp, who at once recognised them as C. cMoris, Sulfrian. I 

 have compared them with his specimen, and I have no doubt they are one species, 

 and having also compared them with Boheman's description, I quite think they are 

 the bpecies to which Dr. Sharp has referred the specimens taken by himself and 

 Mr. Lennon in Dumfriesshire. 



Cassida cMoris cannot well be compared with any species in our list but C. 

 sanguinolenta ; from that species its longer, more parallel build, coarser sculpture, 

 and different colour, easily separate it. It is, indeed, only like it in having a reddish 

 base to the elytra ; but this part is not blood-red, but brownish. Its colour in life 

 is green, similar in tint to the common C. ruhiginosa, but at the base several metallic 

 golden specks upon the red part may be seen, and these at once attracted my atten- 

 tion. The thorax and elytra are rather coarsely punctured, on the latter the 

 punctures are in irregular and somewhat interrupted series, becoming confused to- 

 wards the apex ; the legs are yellow ; the body, head, coxse, and thickened part of 

 the antennae are black. These specimens were taken in October, 1882, 



C. cMoris has been detected in Grermany, Austria, and Hungary, it is also in- 

 cluded in Grenier's Catalogue of French Coleoptera. For a more full account, cf. 

 Kraatz, Berl. ent. Zeits., 1874, p. 92.— H. S. GtOeham, The Chestnuts, Shirley 

 Warren, Southampton : May 14th, 1885. 



Note on Lecanium prunastri ? — On the 5th of April I found on some shoots of 

 hawthorn (Cratcegus oxyacantha) about three years old, growing from the base of a 

 tree in a sheltered and sliaded corner of the garden, several hibernated scales of a 

 Lecanium, both male and female. The sexes are easily distinguishable ; the scales 

 of the $ being white and conspicuous, thin, and of delicate material, those of the ? 

 dull brown, assimilating to the colour of the bark of the twigs, therefore not easy to 

 see, and tough. The form in each sex is the same, a long oval ; but while the $ is 

 affixed to any part of the bark, the ? is always towards the extremity of the twig, 

 in or near the axil of a thorn or lateral shoot, 



I cut off about a dozen shoots and put so much of each as had adherent scales 

 into a wide-mouthed white glass bottle. I inspected them daily until April 24th, 

 without detecting any exit ; I omitted to look on the 25th, but on the 26th I saw, 

 at the bottom of the bottle, six males already dead and one alive ; since then no 

 more have appeared. I also found some exuviated skins of the pupae or nymphs* 

 which had fallen down when the imago emerged from tlie shell, which had served as 

 a cocoon, and which in some cases was broken ; other scales were left entire on the 



* "Pupa" may not be a good term to apply to the penultimate state of an ametabolous in- 

 sect, but " Nymph" (derived from the classical half-veiled Nymphce, female deities)— Lamarck's 

 name for the pupa; of all insects with an incomiDlete metamorphosis— is at best not a happy ap- 

 plication of the term, and is singularly inappropriate when, as in this case, the form is evident 

 only in the male sex. 



