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is, however, of course impossible when the Coccus-host has been 

 referred in the first instance to no particular species or food- 

 plant, and I must briefly summarize here parasites simply given 

 as raised from Coccus. Katzeburg (Ichn. d, Forst. ii. 145) says 

 Encyrtus aniens — or E. melanopteras, Nees — was bred by Eeis- 

 sig from female Coccus on the stem and branches of blackthorn 

 in July, 1843 ; that the three females of his Telegraplms maculi- 

 jjcnnis (ii. 153) which he described were bred with the above 

 parasite from female Coccus, and suggests that Encyrtus mirahili- 

 cornis is also a Coccus-dweller — Ceraptcrocerus mirabilis, West., 

 is stated by Dalla Torre to have been bred from Coccus by Dr. 

 Giraud ; of Bracon hreviuscuius, Eatzeburg says {I. c. iii. 37) that 

 this specimen is interesting because it had an unheard-of host 

 for a Braconid, viz. Coccus on oak-bark ; he also instances (i. 

 200 et 201) Pteromalus xanthoptcrus, P. mici'oneurus and P. 

 maculipes as also probably bred from Coccus. Costa bred his 

 Eucharid Aspidocoris cyanca (Bull. Ac. Nat. NapoH, 1863, p. 24) 

 from si3ecies of Coccus on Citrus, Myrtus, and Ficus. Mayr 

 raised Eusemion {Ceraptcrocerus) cornigerum, Walk. (Verb. z.-b. 

 Ges. 1875, p. 749) from Coccus in Austria; this is quoted by 

 Gaulle (Cat. 100), who adds the extremely doubtful record hence 

 of the Cynipid Allotrla ruhriceps, Kieff., probably upon its 

 author's authority. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEKVATIONS. 



We are pleased to note in the list of candidates proposed for 

 election to the Eoyal Society the name of Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., 

 M.D., Bursar of Wadham College, Oxford, and President of the 

 Entomological Society of London. Dr. Dixey has made the Pierine 

 group of butterflies his own especial study, and those of us who 

 were fortunate enough to hear his Presidential Address this year on 

 the " Plume-scales of the Pierinae " have already had an opportunity 

 to estimate the great value to science of what may be described as 

 his " diploma " work. Dr. Dixey, however, did not deliver the whole 

 of his paper of the occasion of the Annual Meeting. But it will 

 appear in extenso in part v. of the Society's pubhcations for 1909, 

 and will be illustrated by three plates — a unique addition to the 

 Addresses published in previous years. Meanwhile we offer our 

 sincerest congratulations to Dr. Dixey, who now joins the select 

 band of Royal Society Fellows who are also entomologists. 



OcYSTOLA ^THOPis, Meyr., in Devonshire. — I liave to record 

 the occurrence of this Australian moth in South Devon in September, 

 1908. I received the specimen, with others, in the autumn of that 

 year from the captor, the Eev. J. W. Metcalfe, of Ottery St. Mary, 

 who does not collect Tineina. It was first of all submitted to Mr. 

 E. A. Atmore, F.E.S., who said that he had nothing like it, and could 



