84 [AprU, 



The following is Boyd's description : — 



" A few days afterwards I took the first specimen of a Gelechia, which Mr. 

 Wollaston had met with in Madeira, and for which the name of ocellatella has been 

 proposed : the colour is reddish-brown, with a broad, yellowish-brown streak along 

 the inner edge, ending in an ill-defined fascia at the anal angle ; there are several 

 black dots, but they do not seem very constant, except one in the fold, about one- 

 tiiird of thawing distant from the body, and another a little above and beyond this ; 

 these are generally surrounded by pale rings, and have an ocellated appearance : 

 beyond the middle, on the disc, are two other black spots, which frequently unite 

 and form a V. I did not meet with it again till the 29th, when I found it flying 

 rather freely about some wild beet, on the top of one of the large rocks near Kynance, 

 but it is difficult to take in good condition, as it flies a very short distance, and darts 

 among the roots and dead leaves the moment it is disturbed." 



The synonymy of this species will, therefore, be as follows : — 



Gelechia ocellatella, Boyd. 

 Gelechia, sp. (Stn.), Ent. Wk. Int., IV, 128 (17, VII, 1858) ; Gelechia ocellatella, 

 Boyd, Ent. Wk. Int., IV, 143 (31, VII, 1858) ; Stn., Ent. Ann., 1859, 151-2 (14, 

 XII, 1858) ; Stn., Ann. and Mag. N. II. (.5 s.), HI, 212 (III, 1859) ; then follow 

 the references cited by Bankes (Ent. Mo. Mag., XXX, 81 [IV, 1894]), to which 

 should be added : Lita ocellatella, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894, 537, 544. 



Merton Hall, Thetford : 



December 10th, 1894. 



COCCIDS PREYED UPON BY BIRDS. 



BY B. NEWSTEAD, F.E.S., 

 CURATOB OF THE GBOSVENOR MUSEUM, CHESTER. 



To do justice to this subject, I think it only right that the entire 

 contents of each stomach, found to contain Coccidce, should be given ; 

 as it is only by such means that an adequate idea may be obtained as 

 to whetber the birds were able to obtain other, and what we should 

 consider more nourishing, food. I have pleasure, therefore, in en- 

 closing tbe result of ray post mortem examinations in winter of two 

 species of birds {Parus ccerideus and Acredula caudata) taken from 

 my report to the Cheshire County Council on " The Amendment of 

 the Wild Birds Protection Act." 



The finding of Coccidce in birds' stomachs is certainly of very 

 great interest and economic importance. I am not quite sure, but 

 believe that hitherto nothing of the kind has been recorded ; if so, 

 the matter should be of some value. 



I have records of three species of Coccidce, viz., Aspidiotus zonatus, 

 Fd., Mytilasjjis pomortcm, Bouche, a-nd Asterodiaspis quercicola, Bouche ; 

 and in my MS. notes there is a record of an immature $ Lecanium, 

 also from the stomach of one of the Paridce. 



