October, .,o,] PSYCHE. 259 



Kermes quercus L. 1758. Nat. vol. 2, 1806, p. 712. No descrip- 



tion is given, but cites Reaum. Ins. 4, 

 Coccus, juevciif-L. 175S. tab. 6, fig. 1-4, and gives the food plant 



as 



QiUTiHS rohi(S. 



Che fines qt(ei'cus rcuiforniis (ieott. 1762. 



Coccus quercus rohoyis L. 



? scale shiny, subglobulm- in shape, emai- ^eotfroy Histoire abregee des In- 



ginated posteriorly, which makes the scale sectes, vol. 1, 1762, p. 508 says Chermcs 



in some individuals appear kidney shaped, (jiicrciis rrnifonnis. Reaumur, Ins. 4, 



variable in si/.e, 3^ mm. Ion- ;, wide, 3 liigli, fab. 6, fig. 1. Le Kermes reniforme du 



some much sm.aller. Ctdoi- reii bi'ow n, wilh ^,1 a ,., .j- ,^ . ., 



Lhene (the reiiiform Kermes of the 



transverse broken black bands. "... 



Yonng ? larvae gravbrown, elongate o^'^)' Its form dlllers from that of all 



oval ver_\- small. Spread under a cover- t'lt: others, it approaches the figure of 



glass s-o microniillimelers long and ifo a kidney. As to its color it is brown, 



broad. The skin is clear, with a yellowish Fabricius, Systema Entomologiae, 

 tinge, quite thickly Iieset with indistinct short 

 sharp spines S ji long, anui four longitudinal 

 rows of i^/tnnh'form spines, |iracticall \' the 



same as those Umnd \n I'seudohcaiiium call- ^UCC, ioi6, C/ierines //uereiis re/iiformis. 



foinlcum I'arroU. Between and in front of Cleoll. Ins. vol. I, p. 508-13. Reaum. 



tlie antennae ;ire two ordinary spines 16^ jns. ,], t.ib, 6, fig. 1-4. Habitat in ^//tv- 



I 775, p. 743, says Coccus quercus roboris 

 Linu. Syst. Nat., vol. 2, p. 740-5. Faun. 



long. Caudal tubercles small, each with one 



cus robori 



Ici 



long bristle iSo 11 long, one spine-like hair , ,-, 



' , 1 . ■ ^ 1 1 Ur. George Dimmock has a copy of 



40|i long, one short spine 10 ji long and one " ' -■ 



glandiform spine. A little distanceabove the Reaumur's work which belonged to 

 anal orilue are two orilinary spines 16 |i long. Jacques Brez, who was a preacher in 

 Antennae r.-jointed, measuring in n as fol- Widdelverg, Holland (born 177.1, died 



179S) author of La flora des insectopli- 

 iles," which gives a list of insects accord- 

 ing to the food plants they attack." In 

 this Reaumur he had written names 



,,,,..,, , , . , . against all the species he could recoji- 



All the joints have slioil lliin han-s. "^ 



Middle legs short, stout. Coxa, 20. Femur "i^e, and he marked on plate 6, fig. 1-4. 



with trochanter, So. Tibia, 36. Tarsus, 40. Coccus quercus Fabr. \_'=i Cliermes qucr- 



Claw 20(1 long. ,7/,,- L.] Dr. Dimmock tells me that 



Mr. Brez wrote in French and began 



The above described examples were publishing on insects at the age of 19, 



found by Dr. L. Reh on Quercus sp. and died at 27. Signoret in Essai sur 



at Borstel near Hamburg, Sept. iS, les Cochenilles gives the food plant as 



1899. Its nearest North American ally Quercus peduncnlata. 



IS A'ermes /<u/>esceus Y'lOgue and belongs In Proc, acad. nat. sci. riiil., 1890, 



in ^i^a ////or m/s aecUon. p. 270, liy Prof. Cockerell arc some 



Bih/iograp/iica/ no/es. — Linne, Syst, notes on A'lvv/zt'j'. 



