IV. New Coccidee collected in Algeria by the Rev. Alfred 
EF. Eaton. By R. Newsreap, F.H.S., Curator of 
the Grosvenor Museum, Chester. 
[Read Nov. 18th, 1896.] 
Prate LV. 
Towarps the end of December, 1895, and again quite 
recently, the Rev. A. E. Eaton very kindly placed at 
my disposal a most interesting lot of Coccidz which he 
had collected principally in the neighbourhood of Con- 
stantine, Algeria, during 1895-6. It is with great plea- 
sure that Iam at last able to give a complete list of all 
the species he has taken, together with the descriptions 
of the new species. My only regret is that I have not 
been able to do so at an earlier date; but my studies of 
the British Coccidze prevented my doing so until now. 
Mr. Eaton also furnished a most valuable list of the food- 
plants harbouring the Coccid, which has been appended 
to those insects to which the plants refer. He says :— 
“The localities in which the Coccids were collected lie 
between 1700 ft. (in the lowest sites in the valleys quoted) 
and 2500 ft. above the sea. These are not the lowest 
nor the highest attainable parts of the district. Their 
character has more of the Hautes Plateaux than of the 
Mediterranean Region about it, and may be considered 
that of the mountains of the Tell or of the outskirts of 
the Plateaux. This will explain the absence of such 
shrubs as Viburnum tinus, L., and (practically) Lawrus 
nobilis, L., from the list and collections.’’* 
Aspidiotus nerii, Bouché, f 2. 
This widely distributed and destructive pest was 
evidently the commonest species met with. It occurred 
on the following plants :—“ Clematis jflammula, L., Con- 
stantine, 4, xi1.,’?95, on M’cid, above the Route de la Cor- 
niche, just beyond the last tunnel. Spartiwm juncewn, L., 
Constantine, 24, x., 795, hedge above the railway skirting 
the forét at the commencement of the road up the Man- 
sourah. Calycotome spinosa, Lk., Constantine, 28, x., 795, 
* The Bone records were added subsequently. 
TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1897.—ParT I. (APRIL.) 
