14 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



While writing on Coccidfe, I may as well put the following 

 items on record : — 



Kermes fiillettei, Ckll. I found this last year on oak at 

 Monument Rock, Santa Fe Canon, New Mexico, 8000 ft. altitude. 

 New to New Mexico, and the highest record for any Kermes. 



Lecanium {Bernardia) sp. On fruit of Cereus trianfinlaris, 

 Jamaica (W. Harris). Mentioned on account of the unusual 

 food-plant. The specimen arrived in fragments, and could not 

 be determined. 



Aspidiofus ficw^, Ashm. Many on both sides of leaves of 

 Ccjeloqyne cristata in greenhouse at Ottawa, Canada. Sent by 

 Mr. J. Fletcher. 



A. coloratus, Ckll. Described as a variety of A. uvce, but 

 doubtless a distinct species. I found it lately in abundance at 

 Eincon, New Mexico, on Chilopsis. At Las Cruces I noted, on a 

 badly-infested Cliilopsis, numbers of predatory coccinellids of 

 the genus Chilocorus ; these Mr. Wickham, to whom I sent 

 specimens, identified as C. cacti and C. bindneras. The Chilopsis 

 in question was the one that yielded the original types of A. 

 coloratus. 



Icerya rilei/i, Ckll. Hitherto this has only been known from 

 Las Cruces. On July 10th I found it on mesquite at Colorado, 

 New Mexico. Colorado is the name of a small village, and has 

 nothing to do with the State of that name. 



Mesilla, New Mexico, U.S.A., Aug. 29th, 1896. 



NOTES AND OBSEEVATIONS. 



High-Flat Setting. — The numerous writings and opinions of corre- 

 spondents in late numbers of the ' Entomologist' on the most important 

 question, " Are we to adopt the continental mode of setting ?" must 

 have intensely interested and aroused all whose feelings are at all keen 

 on this subject. Surely there is no need to go to this the farthest of 

 far extremes ? I indeed hope not. Looking at Mr. Dannatt's note 

 (Entom. xxix. 330), I am of one mind with his remark that perfectly 

 flat-set insects have the effect of producing an objectionably wooden 

 appearance, and thus become ungainly and stiffto most eyes, excluding, 

 of course, continental collectors, who are prone to think otherwise. I 

 cannot, however, agree with another remark of Mr. Dannatt's — that 

 flat setting is contrary to the laws of nature ; indeed, 1 am inclined to 

 consider our own setting more averse to these laws, seeing that the 

 costa of most, and I fancy of all, Lepidoptera is constituted in a 

 rigidly straight plane, in the living state. On our rounded boards the 

 costa becomes curved in accordance with the curvature of the setting 

 board, which produces an utterly unnatural attitude. In fact, many 

 held that the much -rounded insect is as objectionable, or more so, than 

 the flat- set one. Being one of those who wish to bring the wings of 



