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brownish margins, legs and antennae colourless. There is a prominent 

 colourless ocellus on each side of the head, besides the four large 

 black eyes. Feet with four knobbed digitules (fig, 2a), Terminal 

 joint of antenna with bhree long knobbed hairs (fig. 2&) , one at apex 

 and two near the base. Total length. If", of which the genital spike 

 occupies I'". The black apodema is a striking feature in this insect, 

 and doubtless suggested the name of the species ; for Frauenfeld's 

 description was made from the male insect only. 



AsteeolecaNiitm quercicola, Bouche. 



This pretty little Coccid is also common on the oak branchlets. 

 The ? of second stage I find in the same situation as that of Asp. 

 zonatus. In this stage the colour of the test is yellowish-brown, or it 

 may be better described by the tint known to water 

 colourists as " brown-pink." There are on the dorsal 

 surface of the test five longitudinal series of detached 

 thin waxy plates (fig. 3), representing possibly the 

 early larval test, which has become fissured along the 

 lines of growth, and the parts separated by the se- 

 cretion of fresh material. The colourless glassy 

 fringe can only be seen in its entirety in this stage. 

 The older females occupy shallow depressions in the 

 bark, as does their near ally, Planchonia ventricosa of Maskell. 



I have been unable to find the males or male scales of this species. 



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Lecakium ole.^, Bernard. 



I have found this species in considerable numbers upon an 

 oleander plant in Yaldiug, Kent. The plant in question is kept in a 



