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ever becomes detached. On the contrary, it has been noticed by more 

 than one person (with respect to 0. urticas) that the young ones are 

 hatched within the marsupium, which is in reality part of the body of 

 the mother, and that they remain there for some time afterwards. 

 Rather, these " egg-bundles " seem to resemble the " silky-white " ones 

 which, on the same page, Mr. Bold ambiguously attributes to Coccus 

 vitis, Linn., although they were found on a gooseberry bush in the 

 open air, and only near a vinery. 



In his report on the Insecta of the Arctic Expedition of the 

 "Alert" and "Discovery," in the years 1875 — 76 (Linnean Society's 

 Journal — Zoology, xiv, 118), Mr. McLachlan has this note: "From 

 Disco Mr. Hart brought several examples of the $ of Dorthesia chiton, 

 Zett., already recorded from Greenland." This refers to Zetterstedt's 

 statement respecting his D. chiton (Ins. Lap., p. 314) — " Yarietas 

 antennis pedibusque fusco-testeceis, mihi e G-roenlandia benevolentia 

 D. Westermanni quoque communicata." 



In the " Mittheilungen der schw. ent. Gesells.," vi, 6 (1880), Dr. 

 G. Haller has an article entitled, " TJeber die Larve eines noch unbes- 

 chriebenen Orthezia-ahnlichen Thieres." The author says that at 

 Leissigen (Lake of Thun) in the moss on old fruit trees, he again and 

 again has found Orthezia larvae of two forms, one of which he identifies 

 with O. articce, as described and figured by Signoret, the other similar 

 but differing in several respects. The more essential points of diver- 

 gence are : — the antennas, which have apparently only four joints, yet 

 the last and longest has indistinct indications of several flagellate 

 articulations blended together (mehreren verschmolzenen Geisselglied- 

 ern) : — the legs thickly set with many small tubercles (dicht von 

 sehr zahlreichen Hockerchen besetzt) : — and the character and form 

 of the particles of the calcareous secretion on the body. The young 

 larva-state only is noticed, but the author deems its specific characters 

 so marked that, anticipating the discovery of the perfect form will 

 ; n firm his opinion that it will prove to be a distinct species, he pro- 

 poses it should bear the name of Orthezia Signoreti, being evidently 

 unaware that Dr. F. Buchanan "White had appropriated the name. 

 It would be curious if, after all, the species in both cases proved to be 

 the same ; but with the particulars of the young larva-state only before 

 is it is scarcely possible to say what the insect really is : yet it should 

 not be dm/iult to obtain in loco some examples in the mature form, 

 and so determine \be matter. 



8, Beaufort Gardens, Lewisham : ,«. 

 January 8th, 1881. 



