164 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



It was decided at this meeting that the British collection, the 

 cabinets, books, and other property of the Club should be hence- 

 forth insured for the sum of £300 only instead of £700. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



The Lepidoptera of the London District. — I have undertaken to 

 edit and bring up to date the list of the London District Lepidopterous 

 Fauna, commenced a few years ago by Dr. F. J. Buckell, and which 

 is now about to be published by the City of London Entomological 

 and Natural History Society. I shall be glad if those entomologists 

 who assisted Dr. Buckell will kindly furnish me with any recent 

 additions ; and shall also be thankful for the assistance of any otber 

 entomologists who may be able to add further records from their own 

 personal knowledge. Tbe district comprises roughly a ten-mile radius 

 from Charing Cross. I shall be pleased to give more exact informa- 

 tion in answer to inquiries. — Louis B. Prout ; 246, Richmond Road, 

 N.E., May 20th, 1899. 



The Coccid^e of the Sandwich Islands. — I have just come across 

 a pamphlet by Mr. A. Koebele, entitled "Report of the Entomologist 

 of the Hawaiian Government," published in 1898. In it the following 

 Coccidas are mentioned which are new to the Sandwich Islands list 

 (c/. Entom. xxxi. 239 ; xxxii. 93) : — Dactylopius calceolaria, Mask. ; 

 D. adonidum, L. (but is probably citri) ; Eriococcus araucaria, Mask. ; 

 Ceroplastes ceriferus, Anders., and C. floridensis, Comst. (these two often 

 introduced, but not established) ; Lecanium hemispliaricum, Targ. ; L. 

 mori, Sign. ; L. tessellation, Sign. ; Parlatoria zizyphus, Luc. ; P. 

 proteus var. pergandei, Comst. ; Mytilaspis beckii, E. Newman (M. citri- 

 cola, Pack.); Aspidiotus rapax, Comst.; A. duplex, Ckll. There are also 

 mentioned two unidentified species of Pulvinaria. — T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Insects and Fungi. — Entomologists are all doubtless well acquainted 

 with the experiments that have been made with a view to the extir- 

 pation (or, at least, diminution in numbers) of certain insect pests by 

 means of various fungi. As an example may be taken the chinch bug, 

 Blissus leucoptems (Say), whose ravages are so dreaded in many parts 

 of North America. 



The fungi (Sporotrichum) are presumed to enter the bodies of the 

 insects through the stigmata, and by their growth in the interior to 

 destroy the life of the attacked bugs, then pushing through to the 

 outside, where the spores are developed. The presence of these fungi 

 is known by the grey powder (not to be confounded with ordinary 

 white mould), which often completely covers the dead bugs. 



For the details of the manner in which the disease is spread by 

 human agency, I would refer the reader to the Nineteenth Report of 

 the Illinois State Entomologist, 1895, pp. 5-189, plates ii-xi ; " The 

 Chinch Bug," by F. M. Webster (Fifteenth 'Bulletin,' New Series, 

 U. S. Dept. Agriculture, 1898, pp. 1-82) ; and "The Chinch-bug," by 



