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sjiecies. The known species are less thau half the inimber of those 

 found ill Jamaica. 



From Tangier to Cape Town, all clown the west coast, J find no 

 record l)y recent writers; only the Monophlehus raddoni, Westwood, 

 described from a male. 



At the north, perhaps better recorded in the palearctic list, is 

 Aoiiidid hUiHchardi^ Targioni-Tozzetti, on the date palms of the iSahara. 



At the Cape we have the old Liima^an Geropla.stes myricw and the 

 Coccus diosmati.s, neither of which are now positively recognized. R. 

 Tiiiiieii, in 18S(), wrote on a sa})posed speciiesof Mdrgarodes found with 

 termites and ants. More lately there are signs of awakening interest 

 from this part of the world, and new species are gradually falling- into 

 the hands of coccidologists. Thus we have Ortonia natalensis, Douglas, 

 and JJactijIopiu-s gramlnis, jMaskell, both iroiu ]S"atal. 



On the eastern coast the same lack of information is found, although, 

 indeed, Dactylopius hromeliw comes from Zanzibar. 



It need hardly be said, after this, that the central ])ortions of the 

 continent are virgin ground, as likewise is Madagascar, though there 

 is a possibility that one or two of the hothouse species may really be 

 from that island. 



For ]Mauritius we have Icery's researches, datiifg from 18G4, and 

 made ever famous by the name Icerya. In 18G8 Guerin-Meneville, 

 taking up the same subject, treiited the Coccidfe infesting sugar cane 

 in Mauritius and IJcunion. He recognized three Coccid.e and an Aley- 

 rodcs. In 1872 Signoret added Ccroplustcs vinsoni to the Mauritius 

 fauna, 



Icerya seychcU((n(in^ Westwood, tlie /. .s((ccli(iri of Signoret, is found 

 in the Seychelles, I'ourbon, Uodrigucz, and Mauritius, and, it is said, 

 also in 3Iadeira, of course there introduced. 



There is still one more record, Mr, Butler's Coccus ccrafiforniis from 

 Rodriguez. Unfortunately, we do not know to what genus this insect 

 belongs. It is no Coccus m the Siguoretiau sense. Vinsonla stellifera 

 is recorded from Keunion, 



ORIENTAL REGION, 



Putting aside the species of which the generic i)osition is unknown 

 (that is, the last century of Coccidfc of Anderson), I find described 

 from the Oriental region the following: 



Wall'eriaiio, 1; Mo)iophlebus, 4- JJrosichd, 1; Dactylopius, 'd (includ- 

 ing two of Mr, Xewstead's species, about to be published); Coccus^ 

 1 (introduced); Oiihezia, 1; Tachardia, 1; Eriochiton, 1; Fulrinaria, 1 

 (not i)ublislied, described by Newstead) ; Fseudopulviuaria, 1 ; Vt)tsonia, 

 1 {V. stellifera^ said to come from Siain, also' Reunion) ; Ccroplastes, 

 1; EriceiiiSjl-, Lecanium, 4; u^^sjridiotus.-i: (1 of jMr, Newstead's waiting 

 publication); €hio)i((spis, 2, 



A total of 28, for such a region as the Oriental! It is less thau half 



