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Sent by Mr. Fuller, labelled: "Large red Ceroplastes, on 

 Acacia and Mimosa, coast of Natal." Tliis is probably a valid 

 species ; Mr Fuller seems to consider it different from the ordi- 

 nary white species, C. egharum {cristatus, Green). Some time 

 ago Dr. Strachan sent me from Lagos a very large C. egharum — 

 waxy scale, long. 20, lat. 13, alt. 10 mm. —with the dorsal area 

 of the wax slightly pinkish. This seems to be another distinct 

 variety or subspecies, but the material was not sufficient for 

 satisfactory description. 



Mr. Fuller writes that it is from the species of Ceroplastes 

 that the Kaffirs make their head-rings. The large white species 

 on Mimosa — I suppose G. egharum — is the one most commonly 

 used, as it is very plentiful. Mr. Fuller thus describes the pro- 

 cess : — " The head-rings are made from a mixture — half and half, 

 I am told — of calcined coccids and fresh material. Of course, 

 no effort is made to extract the insects, a fact which accounts no 

 doubt for the intense blackness of the rings." 



East Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S.A. 

 Jan. 14th, 1902. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



The Nomenclatuke of the Coccids. — In the course of revising 

 the genera of Coccidae, I have found the following new names and 

 changes of name apparently necessary : — 



(1.) Ultraccelufitoma, new subgenus oi Cadostomidia; female adult 

 without mouth or legs; antennae more or less rudimentary. Type 

 Cailostumidia assiinilis [delostoma assimile, Maskell), from New Zealand. 



(2.) Arctorthezia, new section of OrtJiezia ; female with waxy secre- 

 tion dense, not easily removed; wedge-shaped lamellje in dorsal line. 

 Boreal forms. ((7. occidentalis and 0. cataphracta.) 



(3.) Bambusaspis new section of Asterolecanium ; scale elongated, 

 often very narrow ; living on bamboos and palms in the Tropics. 

 Includes A. miliaris, A. hamhmcB, A. delicatum, A. solenophoroides, A. 

 pahnce, A. urichi. 



(4.) Phenacobryum, new section of Asterolecanium ; scale with laminae 

 resembling moss-leaves. A. bryoides (Maskell) and A. stellatum 

 (Maskell, as bryoides var.). 



(5.) Ascelis, Schrader ; n. syn. Cystococciis, Fuller, Tr. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. 1899, p, 462. [A. echuiiformis [Cystococciis echinlformis, Fuller) ). 

 T. D. A. CocKERELL ; E. Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S.A. ; Feb. 2nd, 

 1902. 



Note on Lakv^ of Chrysophanus phlobas. — I obtained a large 

 number of C. phloeas ova last October, from captured females. The 

 larvse duly hatched out, and have lived through the winter in a con- 

 servatory, but not heated, except by means of a lamp, just enough to 

 keep the frost from plants. Some of them appear to have fed all 

 through the winter and are now full grown, while others are smaller. 



