Appendix. 187 



the dorsal tubular spinnerets are quite characteristic of the genus Diaspis, 

 and we think that it has been correctly placed. 



Mr. Fletcher sent this species to the Museum, but gives no notes upon 

 it save that it occurs on peach and pear. 



II. Aspidiotus {CItrysomphalus) aonidum, Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. x., i., p. 455 



(1758). 

 Clirijsompliahis flcus, Ashmead, American Ent., iii., p. 207 (1J^80). 



9 s and $ puparia. 



Common on Jamhosa vulgaris and orange, Alexandria and Cairo, 

 Egypt (Xewst.) ; on orange (Fletcher). The Egyptian specimens, like the 

 English, are very dark. This species also occurs abundantly in the United 

 States, West Indies, Australia, Ceylon and Japan. Berlese has found it in 

 Italy, and it has occurred at Kew. It also occurs on oleander, rose and 

 orchids. 



III. Aspidiotus {Chn/somphalus) aurantii, Maskell, Trans. New Zealand 



Inst., xi., p. 199 (1878). 



On cultivated orange, Alexandria, Egypt (Newst.). 9 ^ only. 



IV. Mytilaspis pomorvm* var. nitis, Goethe, Jahrbiicher des Nassauischen 



Vereins fiir Nat., p. 118 (1884). 



9 's and (J puparia. 



Not hitherto recorded from Egypt. The "puparia " or ovisacs of the 

 females are smaller and of a somewhat paler colour than typical examples 

 found in Great Britain on apple and other trees, but the structural details 

 of the females are specifically identical with typical specimens. There are 

 quite a number of male puparia present, and tliey are interesting as being 

 the first recorded examples of this variety. 



Mr. Fletcher found this mussel scale encrusting a vine in the open air. 



V. Lichtensia ephedrae, Newst., Ent. Mo. Mag., s.s. vol. xii., p. 83, fig. 5 



(1901). 



9 s and <J puparia. 



Discovered by Dr. George Schweinfurrh in the Waddy Gerrawy, Helo- 

 nan, 15' south of Cairo, and forwarded to this country for identification 

 by Admiral R. W. Bloomfield. 



Hahitaf on EpJiedra alte, C. A. Meg. 



This interesting species is nt present not recorded from any other part 

 of the world. 



VI. Ceroplasies mimosir, SiirnoreL ; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5), ii., p. 46 (1872) ; 



Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. xlvii (1872). 



Egypt. On Mimosa nilotica. 



It is just possible that this insect may be an immature form of the 

 next species. 



* Mrs. Fernald gives priority to Lepidosaphes ulmi, Linn., " Cat. Coccidre of the 

 World," p. 314, no. 1431, 1903. 



