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and slowly arranging his mighty coils on some huge log or stool 

 of mangroves. It would be next to impossible to capture 

 it unhurt. It would need at least six strong fearless men 

 to grapple with it ere it could be secured. The young of this 

 species have a habit of constricting the hands the moment 

 they are caught and should an adult act in this manner almost 

 certain death would result to the unlucky person it managed to 

 envelop in its folds. I doubt whether Huillias livelong enough 

 in Trinidad to attain such proportions; those killed of late years 

 are seldom more than 18 feet, though I am quite satisfied that 

 very large ones may be found in the remote swamps of the 

 mainland of South America. But I am straying from my point. 

 In bringing these facts before you with regard to the measure- 

 ment of animals, my object has been to endeavour to impress 

 upon members the necessity of being very careful in making 

 statements with regard to the dimensions of animals which 

 may come under their notice. In conclusion I may remark that 

 I note in the Fluid of Dec. 15, Jamrach the famous wild 

 animal dealer of London offers to pay any one who will bring 

 him a snake DO feet long £1,000, and for one 40 feet long (he 

 has evidently the Sea Serpent in his mind's eye) the nice little 

 sum of £10,000. The prices are handsome, but I am afraid 

 Jamrach is well aware of the absolute impossibility of the 

 capture of the one and the improbability of the existence, much 

 less the securing of the other. 



15th March, 1895. 



A NEW SCALE-INSECT FROM GRENADA. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell, Entomologist of the New Mexico 



(U.S.A.) Agricultural Experiment Station. 



I HAVE just received from Mr. Urich some Coccidte collected 

 by Mr. W. E. Broadway on Citrus medica var. acida in the 

 Botanic Garden at Grenada. One of the species is Aspidiotua 

 articulatus, Morgan, as already identified by Mr. Urich ; the other 

 is a very interesting new Lecanium. 



Lecanium punctatum, n. sp. 



Female scale hemispherical, moderately shiny, not ridded, long. 3^, 

 lat. 3, air. 2 mm.; ground-color pale ochreous, peppered with brown, but 

 largely excluded by reddish-brown blotches with blackish spots in their 

 ce itres. The whole effect is rather that of a chequered pattern of ochreous 

 and brown, but close examination shows that the brown blotches are in four 

 dorsal longitudinal rows, besides, more irregularly, occupying the margin, 

 which is deeply but not closely pitted. 



