U SOFT ORANGE SCALE. 



Baling, that amongst a number of specimens of Icerya 

 purchasi received from Natal, about ten days previously, 

 he bad found a specimen of the male insect alive, and 

 in fairly good condition. On comparing this with Prof. 

 Biley's description of the American species, and also 

 with his figure of the male insect in the U. S. A. Eeport, 

 1887, Mr. Lewis considered it agreed almost exactly 

 excepting in some minor details as to colour and hairs, 

 which might be easily explained by probable differences 

 in method of examination or mounting. 



Mr. Lewis was good enough to place in my hands a 

 camera lucida drawing of the insect, coloured from life, 

 and magnified to about l inches in length ; and so far 

 as I can judge (from comparison of this with Prof. 

 Riley's figure) it appears to myself also to correspond 

 minutely in wing-neuration, antennse, and other essential 

 points all, in fact, which are represented. 



I offer my best thanks to Mr. Lewis for his kind 

 courtesy in permitting me to complete the observations 

 of the South African Icerya purchasi, by publishing, 

 before he does so himself in full, his interesting 

 observation, which I believe to be the first recorded 

 notice of the male of Icerya purchasi being found on 

 the continent of Africa. E. A. 0. 



LECANIUM HESPERIDUM, Linn. 



Coccus hesperidum, Linn. Fauna Suecica, p. 264 ; Syst. 



Nat. i. 2, p. 739. 



Calymnatus hesperidum, Costa, Nuov. Observ. 1835 ?| 

 Calypticus hesperidum, Costa, Faun. Ins. Nap. Gall- 

 insect. 1837-8, 1 ; Lubbock, Proc. Eoy. Soc. ix. 

 480 ; Beck, Trans. Eoy. Micr. Soc. 1881, 47, &c. 



Soft Orange Scale, or Broad Scaled- 

 Examples received from South Africa have been iden- 

 tified by Mons. Signoret as belonging to this common 



* I have not given a figure of this Scale, as it is too well known to 

 require illustration. 



