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still in the first stage. Only very small larve of the Lestophonus were 
found within scales after first and second molts. Within a nearly fall- 
grown specimen on trunk of lemon-tree, the only large one found there, 
two larve of the fly were nearly full-grown. 
I left on December 10 for Melbourne, seeing that it was necessary to 
hunt up a new field. There I had hopes of gathering a sufficient quan- 
tity for a shipment. The largest colony I was able to discover at Mel- 
bourne existed in a church-yard on Collins street, upon small trees of 
Pittosporum undulatum. Icould not find the proper person to apply to 
for admittance, and a policeman whom I consulted in regard to getting 
the tempting specimens advised me ‘‘not to jump from the fence as 
they surely would have me arrested.” 
T left them undisturbed and went in search of others. A few speci- 
mens existed in the gardens of the government buildings; an occa- 
sional specimen in the park adjoining the Exposition grounds ; some on 
a: hedge in front of a hotel, and single specimens were found on trees 
in a park at St. Kilda, while at the same place on a garden hedge quite 
anumber were found; all these on Pittosporum undulatum and P. (engeni- 
oides?). At the last-named place the lady-birds were found at work, 
and all were gathered later for shipment. I went east of Melbourne as 
far as Bairnsdale, yet no Icerya could be found. A strong attempt 
was made to find out the whereabouts of the Monophleebids of which 
Mr. Crawford had sent specimens to California. They could not be dis- 
covered in numbers in the woods, yet in the parks at St. Kilda I was 
soon rewarded. by finding the insects looked for, viz.: Monophlebus 
crawfordi Maskell (Fig. 9), under loose bark of various Eucalypti, em- 
bedded in cottony matter, and the single, (often 2 inches) long, white, 
setous, anal hairs sticking out.* Only a few dozen of the monstrous 
scales, however, could be gathered in a hard day’s work. Up in the tree- 
tops I often found a similar Monophlebid, only varying in color some- 
what. It is as large, or even larger, than M. crawfordi, and sits fast- 
ened to the branches and exposed without any cottony attachments, 
although sometimes under chips of bark. 
On my way home in the evening one of these scales came hurriedly 
running down on the trunk of a tree. So the next day, at the northern 
park at Melbourne, the ground at the base of the Eucalypti was ex- 
amined. Here I found, sometimes lying loose on top and dead (in this 
case always destroyed by Lestophonus) and below ground to a depth of 
3 inches, in a small cave nicely embedded in loose cottony matter if 
healthy, or generally mixed up with the ground if parasitized, large 
numbers of these scales. These, Mr. Coquillett informed me on my re- 
turn to Los Angeles in April, gave the best results in Lestophonus, as 
these parasites were still issuing then, four months after they were col- 
*Not mentioned in the description of Monophlwbus crawfordi. See “On some New 
South Australian Coccide,” by W. M. Maskell. (From the Transactions of the Royal 
Society of South Australia 1888.)—A. K. 
