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text of his paper Prof. Coekerell says that these slides were 

 identified by Mr. T. Pergandi. Evidently, then, Prof. Coek- 

 erell did not question the identifications, which were, to all 

 appearances, erroneous. 



Prof. Coekerell speaks of sacchari as having 7 segmented 

 antennae. Maxwell-Lefroy, says under sacchari^ ^'Described 

 from Trinidad on sugar cane. A similar species occurs in Bar- 

 bados having one point of difference from the Trinidad speci- 

 mens: the latter are described as having 7-jointed antenna^, 

 which appear 6-jointed owing to the lack of division between 

 joints 2 and ?>. Barbados specimens have this character, but 

 joint 3 may also have a division, making the antennae S-jointed." 

 In our material the antennal joints of calceolariae vary consid- 

 erably in the number of joints ; some are 7-jointed, others have 

 one antenna 7-jointed, the other 8-jointed. Wherever there are 

 but 7 joints, one (usually 4) or two of them are unusually long. 



In the absence of the original description of sarcJtari our de- 

 termination was based on Prof. Cockerell's measurements of cal- 

 ceolariae, which I believe has been misidentified for sacchari , 



As will be noticed in the table of leg measurements, I had 

 the privilege of examining a slide in 'Mr. Ehrhorn's collection, 

 which is rather interesting. The material for this slide was col- 

 lected on "NTew Zealand flax in Berkeley, California. P. calceo- 

 lariae having boon rc]iorted on that plant in Xew Zealand, Mr.' 

 Ehrhorn took it for that species. But its correspondence to 

 sacchari seems to be far closer than to the other species, and I 

 should therefore put it (h^wn as sacchari. 



Aspidiotus cyanophyll Sign. (Coccidae) on Sugar Cane. 



BY JACOB KOTINSKY. 



Mv. Swezey called my attentiou to what I later identified 

 as the above on sugar cane. These canes were growing in an 

 ant-proof insectary, and were started, I believe, from cuttings; 

 the scales were on leaves. I^nless these insects were there pre- 

 viously on the stalk or bud, they must have been blown in there 

 by the wind from an adjacent tree infested with them. 



s hoc. cli. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, No. 3, May, 1910. 



