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medium of the sticky exudation. As soon as the first fragment is 

 fixed, it proceeds to remove a second piece from the cast-off skin, and 

 places this on its back as it did the first ; this process is continued 

 until the larva is satisfied with the amount of covering it has acquired. 

 — H. S. Fremlin ; Grosvenor Laboratories, Chelsea Bridge. 



The Coccid^: of the Sandwich Islands. — Last year (Entom. xxxi. 

 239) I gave a list of Sandwich Island Coccidse, and indicated five 

 species as being only known from thence. Already, three of these 

 have turned up elsewhere ; Kermicus (formerly Sphcerococcns) bambusa 

 has been found by Mr. Green in Ceylon, by M. d'Emmerez de Charrnoy 

 in Mauritius, and by Dr. Noack at Campinas, Brazil ; Dactylopius 

 vastator has been identified by Professor J. D. Tinsley from Mauritius, 

 where it was collected by M. de Charrnoy ; and Mytilaspis hawaiiensis 

 has been found by Mr. Koebele at Amoy, China. Two species are to 

 be added to the Sandwich Islands list. On Feb. 3rd, 1899, Mr. A. 

 Craw found a palm (Seaforthia elegans), which arrived at San Francisco 

 from Honolulu, to be infested with Coccidse. I have examined the 

 material, and it is Aspidiotus (Evaspidiotns) tramparens, Green, and A. 

 (Hemiberlesia) greenii, Ckll., with also a very young Icerya, indeter- 

 minable. 



Corrections. — Ante, p. 12, for " Two new genera of Lecaniine 

 Coccidge" read " Two new genera of Coccidse." P. 13, at bottom, for 

 " Aspidiotis " read " Aspidiotus.'" — T. D. A. Cockerell ; Mesilla Park, 

 New Mexico, U.S.A., Feb. 14th, 1899. 



Ichneumons Wanted. — Will lepidopterists and others who may 

 breed or otherwise capture ichneumons during the coming season be 

 so kind as to send them, with, where possible, their host's names, to 

 Claude Morley, F.E.S., Crescent, Ipswich, who is commencing the 

 study of these interesting parasites ? 



Cucullia cHAMOMiLLiE. — A correspondent (ante, p. 20) writes 

 requesting information upon the finding of larvae of Cucullia chamomillce. 

 This at once throngs my mind with many pleasant, and in the main 

 successful, hunts after the species ; and I hasten to contribute my 

 small experience, with the hope that it may be of use to him and others. 

 I first made the acquaintance of chamomillce larvse ten years ago, at 

 Rossall, near Fleetwood. The chamomile grew in abundance on a part 

 of the sea wall, and I traced the whereabouts of my first caterpillar by 

 the frass lying on the sand under one of these plants. It was full- 

 grown, very brigbtly coloured, and completely hidden in its green 

 thicket. Afterwards, however, I found others quite exposed, even at 

 this stage of growth. Roughly speaking, for the first half of their brief 

 larval existence they always live exposed, and seem to rejoice in lying 

 in a half-circle on the crown of unexpanded flower-heads. Green is 

 then the predominant colour, with a varying degree of white and 

 darker markings, not unlike the larva of Anarta myrtilli. With its 

 growth the caterpillar becomes a very beautiful object ; red or yellow, 

 and in some specimens both, being added to the former colours, and 

 the skin becoming smooth and shining. Like others of the genus, 

 chamomillm is endowed with electric activity. The larvaa, at any rate 



ENTOM. — APRIL, 1899. K 



