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senting the fifth lobe. The transvei'selv 

 elongate pores, niarking the segments, are 

 quite numerous and large. Five large 

 groups of ventral glands, the intervals be- 

 tween them about as great as the diameter 

 of one orifice. Caudolaterals of 21 to 31, 

 ceplialolaterals 49 to 5S, median 29 to 30. 

 Antennae represented by a curved bristle. ' 



Hab. — On stem of some woody plant from 

 China, just above the ground. 



This species looks a little like amygdali, 

 but it is larger and has much paler exuviae; 

 the median lobes are smaller and further 

 apart, and there are numerous difterences of 

 detail. 



Aspidiotus {Odonaspis) hatnbusayum. n. 

 sp. — ? scale 2 mm. diam., very dark sepia 

 brown, almost black, tolerably convex, dull ; 

 exuviae between the center and the side; first 

 r skin exposed, light orange; second large, 

 brown, covered. A well-formed ventral 

 scale. 



5. Hinder parts strongly chitinous, hav- 

 ing a strong yellowish brown or umber color 

 after boiling. No lobes. Pygidial area dotted 

 all over with small glands as in inusitatus. 

 Four long club-shaped processes as in itiiisi- 

 taiiis, but they are equidistant from one 

 another. There is no median depression at 

 the caudal extremity, but there is a depres- 

 sion or notch at the second club-shaped pro- 

 cess, as in initsitalus. The deep lateral 

 notches of the caudal portion, two on each 

 side, are as in innsitatus, but considerably 

 larger and deeper, with the anterior side 

 more projecting. Anal orifice far from the 

 end, as in tnusitaius ; it is only just posterior 

 to the median group of ventral glands. 

 Three groups of ventral glands; median of 

 about fifty; laterals pyriform as in secretus, 

 with a very large number of orifices, prob- 

 ably over 150. The sutures between the 

 segments are curiously striated. 



Hab. — On stalks of bamboo from Japan, 

 with A. secretus. The scale is rather like 

 A. duplex, and could be mistaken for it. A. 

 iambusarum is a most interesting species. 



closely allied to the anomalous A. inusitatus 

 Green, from Ceylon, but in its ventral glands 

 more resembling A. secrelus. It appears 

 that Odonasfis should be extended to 

 include all three species, and probably it 

 should take generic rank. 



I will take this opportunity to state that 

 Mr. Craw found fifty tea-bushes from Japan 

 to be infested by Diaspis amygdali Tryon. 

 They were destroyed. Tea is a new food- 

 plant for D. amygdali. 



T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 Messilla Park. N. M.. 

 Feb. 13, iSgS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



n February, 1S98. The 199th meeting of 

 the Club was held at 156 Brattle St., Mr. S. 

 H. Scudder in the chair. 



A letter was read by the secretary from 

 Mr. T. E. Bean, the President-elect for 1898, 

 declining the ofiice. The declination was 

 accepted and a new election ordered for the 

 next meeting. 



Mr. A. S. Hewins of Dedhani was elected 

 a member. 



Recalling the exhibition at the last meet- 

 ing of specimens of the Japanese Diestram- 

 mena viarmorata found in a greenhouse in 

 Minnesota, Mr, S. H. Scudder read a portion 

 of a letter since received from Prof. O. 

 Lugger, in which he said they were found in 

 the greenhouse at the University. "They 

 came about three years ago and are still 

 there, multiplying freely. They were first 

 noticed in a shipment of plants from Florida, 

 consisting mostly of the ' umbrella plant, 

 which is I believe, a Japanese plant. . . . 

 No Japanese plants were ever received 

 directly at the greenhouse." 



Mr. Scudder also called the Club's attention 

 to a statement in Tutt's British Butterflies 

 that there is not "a scintilla of actual evi- 

 dence" to support the assertion that .<4;/(ji/a 

 plexippus migrates southward in the autumn 



