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"kitchen refuse," and where, we may suppose, was for some time the 

 dwelling place of a tribe of Indians. 



On Mr. Davenport's land, above Moline, a mound was opened, or 

 rather a burial place which may formerly have been a mound, but which 

 was not at all elevated above the surrounding surface. Attention was 

 drawn to the spot by some shells thrown up by the plow. About fix- 

 inches below the surface was a layer of shells, tifteen feet in diameter, 

 and several inches thick. One and a half feet below this layer, near the 

 center, a skeleton was found in the same position as in the mounds on 

 Deere's land. The skull was well preserved, and is now in our Museum. 

 The other human remains were much decayed. 



BIOLOGICAL AND OTHER NOTES ON COCCID.^. 

 BY J. DUNCAN PUTNAM.* 



I. PULVINARIA INNUMERABILIS. 



IPlates XII and XIII.] 

 SYNONYMY : 



Coccus innunierabiiis Rathvon. Pennsylvania Farm Journal,\ Yol. lY, pp. :i5ri-7-8, 

 (with figure). Weet Chester, Pa., August, 1854. 



Lecanium acericorticis Fitch. Transactions of the New York State Agricultural SO' 

 Hetyfor 1859, Vol. XIX, pp. 77.5-776. Albany, N. Y., IStiO. 



Coccus aceris Leidy (not Schrank). Report to the Councils of FMladelphia on. some 

 of the insects injurious to shade trees, pp 7-8. Philadelphia, 18(52. (A wrong deter- 

 mination.) 



Lecanium acericola Wali<h and Riley. American Entomologist, Vol. I, p. 14, (with 

 figure). St. Louis, Missouri, September, 1868. 



Lecanium acerella Rathvon. Lancaster Farmer, Vol. YIII, pp. 101-103, Lancaster, Pa., 

 •.July, 1876. (Probably a clerical error for acericola.) 



Maple-bark Scale-insect, Fitch, loc. cit. 



Maple-tree Bark-louse, Walsh & Riley, loc. cit. 



Cottony maple scale, Riley, in letter. 



f Lecanium mculurije Walsh and Riley. American Entomologist, Vol. i, p. 14, 1868, 



.'' Coccus salicis Fitch. Fourth annual Report * * of the State Cabinet of Natu- 

 ral History, [of New York], p. 69. Albany, N. Y.', 1851. {Pulvinaria salicis Signoret, 

 Essai sur les CochenilUs, p. (320), 1873.) 



? Lecanium pyri Fitch, (in part). First Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other 

 Insects of the State of New York, p. 106. Albany, 1854. 



? Coccus adonidum Packard. American Naturalist, Vol. I, p. 223. Salcni, June, 1867. 



I' Coccus viiis, Linne, 173.5; Pulvinaria vitis of authore. 



*A delay of a year in the printing of this paper, has enabled me to include in it the ob- 

 servations made during the past year, which have materially changed my views upon sev- 

 eral points. 



tDr. Rathvon writes of the Farm Journal,— " It originated here, [Lancaster, Pa.,j in 

 1850 or '51, then was removed to West Chester (where it was issued by Mr. Darlington,) and 

 Irom thence to Philadelphia: and after the completion of the 7th [vol. J it was sold to another 

 party and changed to the Farmer and Gardener, finally transferred to Paschal Morris & 

 ••^on; changed to a quarto, and became the basis of the Progressive Farmer, and is still 

 published in tliat form, \nu\i.'Y Ww WWt oi Practical Farmer."' I am under special obliga- 

 lions to Mr. C. V. Riley for the loan of a manuscript copy of Dr. Rathvon"s paper and figure. 



[Proc. D. .\. N. S., Vol. IL| 39 [Dec, 1879.] 



