250 [April, 



not easy to detect. They are dark castaneous, straight, not widened posteriorly, 1^ 

 lines in length. This is the normal form and position, here and there, however, at 

 the wider pai't of a spine at its base was a scale somewhat broader behind. On one 

 spine are two scales that had begun at a level point, and for as far as they were only 

 as wide as the larval scale they are side by side, but then one of them having oc- 

 cupied the width of the groove, the other had no resource left but to cross the scale 

 of its rival, which it did, and maintained its position. All were females, and the 

 bodies were full of large white eggs. 



Fiorinia camellicola, Comst. Mr. Parfitt finds this on camellias at Exeter ; new 

 to us. 



Asterodiaspis quercicola. 



In his " Essai," at p. 167, Signoret placed Aspidioius quercicola, Bouche, in 

 the genus Asferolecanium (p. 160, ante), but having subsequently obtained the 

 perfect male, he found more of the character of a Diaspid than a Lecanid (which, 

 however, Comstock doubts, Keport, 1883), and he made the species the type of the 

 new genus Asterodiaspis (p. 444). 



During the latter part of November I found on oaks at Lee and Eltham ? scales 

 of the last brood, but by lapse of time and by exposure the yellowish colour has 

 become tarnished. At one side of a batch of scales there are some very small round 

 ones of a new brood, but I see none of the male, which is stated to be of a long-oval 

 form, 1 mm. in length, of a clear brilliant yellow, with a weak median carina, and a 

 fringe similar to that of the female. Mr. Parfitt finds the ? scales at Exeter, but 

 says they are scarce. 



8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : 

 January Mth, 1886. 



NOTES ON SOME LEPIBOPTFEA FKOM ALGERIA. 



BY GEORGE T. BAKER, E.E.S. 



In continuation of my former notes on Algerian Lepidoptera, 

 vol. xxi, pp. 241 and 268, the following list of insects, taken there in 

 the first half of the year 1884, may not be devoid of interest. The 

 arrangement is that of Staudinger's catalogue. 



Fapilio Podalirius, v. Latteri, not uncommon at Guelma in June. 

 All my specimens appear to be an intermediate form between v. 

 Feisthamelii and v. Latteri, they are, however, nearer the latter, and 

 must therefore be placed under that variety. 



Fieris Daplidice, L., plentiful in February around Lambessa. 



AnthocJiaris Belemia, Esp. : this appeared on the wing at the end 

 of February, and continued moderately common at Lambessa till 

 towards the end of March ; v. Glance^ Hb., common at Guelma in 

 May ; Belia, Cr., Lambessa, March, in May, its variety, Ausonia was 

 not rare at Guelma ; v. Levaillantii, Lucas : the first specimen was 

 captured on the 10th of February, and it continued on the wing till 

 near the middle of March in the neighbourhood of Lambessa. It is 

 strange how rare the $ is, only a single specimen was taken to about 



