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to the scale ; the other scale had disappeared, and in 

 its place was a white, slightly convex, smooth, shining 

 scale, which, when I attempted to raise it with a 

 needle, broke and disclosed a male imago alive. The 

 head, eyes, antennae, thorax, legs, and abdomen were 

 wholly yolk-yellow, the antennae thickly set with short 

 projecting hairs, the two anal filaments snow-white, 

 the broad wings smoke-white, sub-opaque, the costal 

 area and also the adjacent ordinary nerve faintly 

 tinged with pink." 



The true character of the male puparium is not at all 

 clearly described; presumably it is of the normal 

 Lecanoid form and glassy. 



Habitat. Common in many places, chiefly affecting 

 the camellia, on which it is often quite a pest ; but it 

 also lives upon soft-wooded plants in warm houses. 

 Professor Westwood first recorded this species in the 

 'Gardener's Chronicle' (I.e.), and says: "Although 

 I had nowhere before seen this insect in any English 

 conservatory, I detected it shortly afterwards on 

 camellias in the gardens of my friend Dr. Verborer, at 

 Hooghtlands, near Utrecht, in Holland, where, how- 

 ever, it had not previously attracted attention." 

 Douglas* was the next to record the species in 1885. 

 He gives no localities, and merely says that he had the 

 species from greenhouses. Later (1886) he records 

 the species sent by Mr. Parfitt from Exeter, and also 

 from camellias in Mr. Stainton's greenhouse. Again, 

 in April, 1886, he had the species from " Kew 

 Gardens on Oncidium papilio and Calanthe nata- 

 lensis." I have met with it abundantly in many parts 

 of Cheshire and Lancashire ; and both Mr. Green 

 and I found it in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 

 I have also received it from Raby Castle (Brock), 

 London (Bennett- Poe), and Darley Dale (Tomlin). 



Habits. In cool houses and conservatories the 

 species is single-brooded, but in warm houses I have 

 found it in various stages at all times of the year, and 



* ' Ent. Mo. Mag./ vol. xxii, p. 159. 



