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grain of Polaud," but I do not recall any records of native species in 

 Ivussia ])roper with the exception of Gossyparia mantiifera. It is also 

 J eported from Egypt, Arabia, Armenia, and Algeria. Holland sui)i)lies 

 Eriopeitis Uchtensteinii. The Scandinavian peninsula, since Linna^an 

 time, has been neglected, though we have the ChionaixplH sorbi, Doug- 

 las, from Finland. 



Germany was alluded to above, but a paper by R. Goi-the on the 

 (^'occida; of the Rhine district, published iu 18S4, should be mentioned. 

 When 1 was in Jamaica, Mr. C. Schaufuss, of Neissen, Saxony, sent 

 u)e a number of Coccid;e because, he said, there was no one in Germany 

 who could identify them. Happily, since then, a new student has 

 arisen in Bohemia, Mr. K. Sulc, and from his energy and zeal we nmy 

 look for great additions to our knowledge. Mr. Newstead has just 

 described Fiorinia sulci, found by him, which is the hrst undoubtedly 

 1 >al ea rctic Fiorinia . 



Finally, the British Isles have to be considered. Work done in earlier 

 times by Westwood, Curtis, Hardy, and a few others, was only frag- 

 mentary iu its nature, and did not ail'ord a basis for a good knowledge 

 ot the insular coccid fauna. After the publication of Signoret's Essai 

 in France, the way was clearly open for some student to elucidate the 

 British species; but instead of a new writer, Mr. J. W. Douglas, already 

 a veteran in entomology, came forward, and has for the last ten years 

 produced papers in rapid succession on the subject. Still more recentlj'^, 

 however, we have a new student in Mr. Newstead, and it is to him we 

 nuist look for the first revisional monograph of British Coccidie. 



I'assing eastward into the Asiatic portion of the palearctic region, 

 we are met b}^ a total absence of information, excei)ting the before 

 mentioned records from Asia Minor and Syria, and a Porphyrophora 

 long ago made known from Armenia. On the southern bolder, iu a 

 region ])erliaps rather Oriental than palearctic, we have the lately 

 described PoUhwi yrandis, Xewstead, from Beloochistan, where it was 

 discovered by Lieut. R. Toudin. 



At tliis point it seems desirable to urge the importance of getting 

 some knowledge of the Coccida' of Japan. In California certain species 

 are said to have been imported from Japan, but we have i»o knowledge, 

 a]»parently, of the coccid fauna actually existing in that country. 

 Japanese fruits are now often imported into the United States, and the 

 possibility of imiiorting Japanese Coccidie must be carefully considered. 

 Prof. Gillette recently sent me an Aspidiotus found on a plum at Canyon 

 City, Colorado. I do not know the species, but think it may probably 

 be Japanese. 



• ETHIOPIAN REGION. 



If, as seen above, our knowledge of palearctic Coccidiv is still small, 

 bow absurdly small is that of the coccid fauna of the Ethiopian 

 region — a region which one might expect to teem with interesting 



