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bis official couuectioa witii the Expositiou, but was takea ou account 

 of bis researches iu applied Entomology, particularly with reference to 

 their value to French agricnlture. This latter honor has been offered 

 to Professor Riley before, but he has previously declined it on the sup- 

 position that an oflScer of this Government is not allowed to accept 

 such decorations. His acceptance at the present time is conditional, 

 of course, on the permission of this Government. — L. O. H. 



A NEW EAST INDIAN GENUS OF COCCIDJE. 



Mr. E. T. Atkinsr>n, of Calcutta, has just published, iu the Journal 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Vol. Iviii, Part ii, Xo. 1, 1889), 

 descriptions and figures of a new genus of Bark-lice found at Mung- 

 phu, in Sikkim, ou Quercus incarna, Castania india, and C. tribuloides. 

 The insect resembles Pulvinaria except that its larv?e have distinct 

 anal tubercles. It is a Hemicoccid resembling the Lecanids in general 

 appearance. The secretion is abundant and close during the larval 

 state. In the second stage it becomes more waxy so as to approach, in 

 ai)pearauce, the genus Orthesia, and the mass of wax ou the leaves is 

 more like detached or attached jilates than threads. 



CANNIBALISM WITH LADY-BIRDS. 



Mr. J. W. Slater, iu Scitnce Gossip for July, 1889, states that be has 

 seen the larviie of CoccineUa dispar attack the pui)ie of its own species 

 and destroy them. He has witnessed such instances of cannibalism not 

 merely in a glass box iu which be bad placed some larvae and pupae, 

 but on a row of currant bushes where Aphids were swarming. He fears 

 that the Coccinellids are deliberate and habitual cannibals, and that 

 this practice seriously interferes with the multiplication of the species 

 and limits their usefulness as plant-louse destroyers. He has never 

 observed tbe adults engaged in this reprehensible habit. 



DAMAGE BY THE PEAR MIDGE. 



Kev. E. N. Bloomflehl, of Hastings, England, reports in the July 

 number of the Entomologisfs Monthly Magazine that considerable dam- 

 age was done to Pears this spring in his vicinity by this insect {Diplosis 

 pyrivoraj Eiley). 



ICERYA PURCHASI NOT IN FLORIDA. 



The several recent scares concerning the supposed appearance of the 

 Fluted Scale of California iu Florida appear, upon the best information 

 which we have been able to secure, to have been founded upon errors 

 in determination. In two instances the common Mealy Bug {Dactylo- 

 pius citri) was the insect mistaken for Icerya, and in one case tbe insect 

 causing tbe scare was tbe Florida "Wax-scale [Ceroplastes fioridensis). 



