6 Tfsmsmctiims. — Xooimfg. 



iasske^saae^ ai Mgri^as^ aad Chianmipii aze: "MifiSaspis 



Miaili Toum^^" Tli^Te i? here c^lsiiify sometiiii^ mni^iig. 



Til poEHi of ^ ' : laKua oE ^e pn^Knnn is ml & 



SH^c^at g^M^TBg; L z. as betw^e^-c MfHSaspis 9bA Cki- 



(iwiiijiii, aar mate iii^^ik eukiDr. I ' - of TarJation ue 

 iBBasaaaMe : positiaii on a leaf <k r . aliss flie shape. 



In tiie sain^nDQS e^aes^sheze iose^s are ioiEiid ib hundreds 

 *4ig< i lii'< ^ IfaarconseqiiBii taimdii^ gadpEesEaBgoiieachodia-, 

 or OB ihs hf^kiws c^ Hie piasxt, (msa ^roAatsjnostirwakis 

 eoBiants. Foresaiii$fe,md!eHewZed^nd^edesC%toHaspu 

 ApGigU. ^bihoB^ ihe wo rr aai ^aale piqpaEann is legaladj 

 ppimjBEa, the i^seels are ofeet^ so jammed togetho^ that ^eci- 

 ^i^s oeeor qpoite Baziaw, or irnissfl-^i^ed, or im^nlar. 

 A^HB, MyaU^is pgrnofrmis on a yjpndpr tw% becomes <^&en 

 T^nr euBfceii , e¥^ aeaziy ^obolar, smd I haTe ses* soBie Terr 

 Hke a Diaspii. Ob li» vhf^ fhseSoee. I lore been led to 

 hnrliitfe sizess tm. mere oodine, and ctraseqaeDtly to jnchide 

 rz MftSa^pis serasl spetaes moEh igaianbHi^ CkkmaspU. 



Thcf ^^Ktion upaa which I hsve zdfed has beat the 

 ai iw yfire or the psesenee o£ farmatiioBS or grooves in the nsale 

 sindd. I coB^er all =re?i^r rz -:^^??i these poo«es appear 

 as bAsn^ps^ {fsieru j: p» ; all ^eeies ixaea. 



vhidi Hie gcooves ase ^_ _: _. . z^ . _ _ g (csteris parSms) to 

 JMv 'fZ^Lsp^. In hke maBBSs*, iJf^LJing with the gernya havii^ 

 esrcslsr or sob-omsl^ :^B^e pf^azia,the pres^iee of earina- 

 tiofB in the -smati^. pprpayiimi ptnsts to Duupis, the ahsenee d 

 ihf^m to Afpsdi&tms. So, a lew mootls a§p, when bit bisoA 

 Hi. £. T. AskiBSCKi seot loe frosn Calcutta I(K idt^itififsataon 

 an inseet atsaekin^ the A?gayn tea.-jiaBty I found ihe female 

 popaxiam SBh-^zeolar, etMirex, with the peJKclfiS not eentzaL 

 TTari I not ssa* anjthii^ more I 'gh«iM hare ^laeed it in 

 Diaspis ; hot, the m^e sfai^d harii^ no grooviES, I mihesi' 

 tatisj^ advised Mr. Addason to name it Asspidio^ii ihea. 

 Swwihrh r, as wpn** c^ the spe^es menticMied at the b e g hmfn g 

 of this note gyhifafe eazxaatims, IhaTe;^aeed them all mida' 

 MytSmspis, ^Ssts^pacdiag the widened and pjiifKm diape of 



Hie fe»na»l^ r P^pirT"tf*'« 



On Hie other hand, I hare also inchided in the sane genus 

 MtftSaspis eafriylhddis, wh^e both female and male po^oria 

 aze saowy-white, beesoise thev are not onij smnlar, but free 

 fmm grooreSw 



Ji I am adced wl^t wooli be the propo' course in cases 

 whext the wf^st^ ■papsx3& only are obs^red, I dioald sa j, sus- 

 pend the jo^ment, or, if reqaized to pmnoaace, let it be pro- 

 xiaaoaBj m^ exanmiaiion ci the male. But, as a rule, 

 some ^edmai of the male is pvettj sure to aceompany a 

 namber of the females. 



