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A. Coles. — Mounted specimens of Chestnut-backed Thrush (Cin- 

 closoma castaveonotum), Australian Swift (C 'ypselus pacificus), and 

 Clinging Parrot, from Calcutta; als "> 10 Sea Balls, collected on 

 the beach of Kangaroo Island. By Mr. W. D. Davies. — Eggs, 

 beetles, birds' skins, leaf insect, shell, and fossil bone, from Western 

 Australia; and Sea Horses (Hippocampus), from Singapore. By 

 Mr. C. French, F.L.S. — Collection of the destructive insects of 

 New Britain, including the beetles which destroy the cocoanut 

 and coffee trees. By Mr. J. Gabriel. — An Hydrozoa dredged at 

 Western Port, and parasite of Leatherjacket. By Mr. T. S. 

 Hart. — Fossil wood from Sandringham. By Baron von Mueller.- — 

 " Iconography of Candollaceous Plants" (first decade); collection 

 of plants from Mt. Mueller, Gippsland, recently collected by J. 

 G. Luehmann and C. French, jun. By Mr. J. Shephard. — Micro- 

 photographs of sections of embryo chick. By Miss Turner. — 

 Curious fish and insect larvre. By Mr. H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S. — 

 Cast formed by new wood grown over a surveyor's mark cut forty 

 years ago on a eucalyptus. 



NOTES ON SOME VICTORIAN COCCID^E, OR SCALE 

 INSECTS.— Part n. 



(Concluded from page 174.) 



By C. French, F.L.S. 



Aspidiotus bossier, Maskell, sp. nov. 



Female puparium circular, convex ; colour varying from dirty- 

 white to yellow, and sometimes to dark brown, texture soft and 

 woolly-looking ; pellicles central, very small and inconspicuous, 

 yellow. Diameter of puparium averaging about r ^ inch. Male 

 puparium whitish, slightly elongated, smaller than that of the 

 female ; not carinated. 



Adult female dark brown, of normal peg-top form. Abdomen 

 in two not large rounded lobes, and perhaps after a small interval 

 another inconspicuous lobule on each side. Margin slightly 

 serrulate. No groups of spinnerets on each side. 



Adult male unknown. 



On the well-known creeping Bossiaea procumbens this very 

 distinct species was first found by myself near Berwick, where it 

 was thickly covering the upper surface particularly of the plant, 

 the leaves of the latter having quite a whitened appearance. 

 Later on it was found near Nhill by Mr. C. Walter, who kindly 

 sent me a good supply of specimens, but so far I have been 

 unable to rear any males from those placed by me in the little 

 boxes. In examining the pupae of this species I have not noticed 

 any indication of the same having been attacked by any parasitic 

 enemy. It is possible, as Mr. Maskell observes, that A. caldesi 



