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reported to have destroyed all the expanded foliage of many thousand 

 palms in one district. A similar outbreak occurred in 1909, but the 

 insects disappeared during the follovxing rainy season and have not 

 agam occurred in injurious numbers until the present time. The larvae 

 evidently mine into the young shoots and the adults defoliate the 

 young leaves. 



Newstead (R.). Observations on Scale-Insects (Coccidae).-VI. — 



Bull. Enlom. Research, London, x, no. 2, January 1920, pp. 175- 

 207, 1 plate, 27 figs. 



The CoccTDVE dealt with in this paper, which forms one of a series, 

 [K.A.E , i, 258 ; ii, 276 ; v, 456, 500 ; vi, 85] include Clypeococcus 

 hempeli, Ckll, from San Paulo, Brazil, on an unknown tree {Mimosa ?); 

 Aspidoproctus goivdeyi, sp. n., from Uganda on plumbago and rose ; 

 Walkeriana digitifrons, sp. n., from Uganda on Baiken emini ; Pseudo- 

 coccus inquilwus, sp. n., from British Guiana on an unknown 

 plant and enclosed by ants {Acromyrmex sp.) in small paper nests ; 

 Pseudococcus perniclosus, Newst. & Willcocks, var., from British East 

 Africa on coffee ; Pseudophilippm inquilinu, sp. u., from Jamaica 

 on an unknown tree beneath a nest of Crematogaster brevispinosa, 

 Mayr, var. tumuli f era, For. ; Antonina water stoni, sp. n., from 

 Macedonia, beneath the leaf-sheaths of Arundo phragmites ; Pseudo- 

 kermes marginatus, sp. n., from British Guiana on Nectandra ; Pulvi- 

 naria hrevicornis, sp. n., from British Guiana on Avicenma 

 nitida ; P. hroadwayi var. echinopsidis, from British Guiana on 

 Echinopsis lutiflora ; Lecanium suhacvtum, sp. n., from Uganda on 

 Cqffea robusta ; Eucalymnatus decemplex, sp. n., from British Guiana 

 on leaves of Lecythis sp. ; Lecanium inquilinum, sp. n., from British 

 Guiana, enclosed by ants {Acromyrmex sp.) in paper nests ; Eidecanium 

 deformosum, sp. n., in the same habitat ; Saissetia nigra var, nitida, n., 

 from Uganda on Luzibarziba ; Platy saissetia montrichardiae, sp. n., 

 from British Guiana on Montrichardia aculeiita ; Aspidiotus longi- 

 spifius, Morg., from British Guiana on papaw ; Chrysomphalus 

 apicatus, sp, n., from British Guiana on Avicennia nitidjjb ; C. umboni- 

 ferus, sp. n., from British Guiana on Lecythis sp. ; Selenaspidus 

 articulatus var. magnospinus, u., from Uganda, on an unknown plant ; 

 Odonaspis rhizophilus, sp. n., from British East Africa on roots of 

 Chloris incompleta ; Aspidiotus fiorineides, sp, n., from Uganda on 

 Cqffea robusta ; Chionaspis madiunensis, Zehnt., from Uganda on 

 sugar-cane ; C. tenuidisculus, sp. n., from Uganda on a creeper with 

 large fleshy leaves in forest ; C. praelonga, C. auratilis, and C. dura, 

 spp, n., from Uganda on unknown plants ; C. laniger, sp. n., from 

 Uganda on Loranthus entebbiensis. 



Chittenden (F. H.). The Bean Ladybird and its Control. — U.S. Dept. 

 Agric. Washington, D.C., Farmers' Bull. 1074, November 1919, 

 7 pp., 3 figs. [Received 9th January 1920,] 



The bulk of this information concerning Epilachna corrupta, Muls., 

 ban been noticed elsewhere [R.A.E., A, vi, 299], The eggs of this 

 beetle are destroyed by three other predaceous Coccinellids, Hippodamia 

 quinquesignata, Kby., H. convergens, Guer., and Coccinella trans- 

 versoguttata, F, The only other Coccinelhd in the United States 



