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smallest, tlio tliird and fourth about equal, the fifth as 

 long as the last two toi^cther. The hairs below the head are 

 blaekish. Thorax reddish brown, with indistinet grey to- 

 mentum and two yellowisli strijjes ; the scutellum yellowish 

 red ; the breast reddish, with brown tomcntum and blaek 

 pubescence. Abdomen blaek, long and pointed ; the second 

 segment widest, the first and third with yellow, the second and 

 fourth with grey hiiul borders, the remaining segments blaek 

 with some red on the sides; underside black. Legs reddish 

 brown with blaek puljcscenee, the fore femora stout. Wings 

 dark brown with clear base ; a clear band in the middle 

 crossing the base of the discal cell and extending to the fifth 

 posterior cell, another on the apex crossing the fork of the 

 third longitudinal vein ; there is also a clear space in the 

 anal cell, and the axillary part of the wing is clear. 



Length 18 mm, 



Throngli the kindness of !Mr. Verrall this species is now 

 placed in the British Museum Collection with the species 

 for which the genus Gastroxides was formed. 



L. — On some Ooccida3 in the Collection of the British 

 Museum. By E. Ernest Green, F.E.S. 



In the comprehensive 'Catalogue of the Coceidffl of the 

 World'' by Mrs. M. E. Fernald is a list of some sixty species 

 " without description or not recognizable.'" 



Of these, the following five names are cited from the 

 CatalofTue of the British Museum, Homoptera (1852), and 

 credited to Walker, whose descriptions were too often 

 inadequate for recognition : — ■ 



1469. Coccus caudatus. 



1489. poterii. 



1492. sinensis. 



1502. Lecanium australe. 



1503. capense. 



I have been given an opportunity of examining the types 

 of these species contained in the British Museum collection, 

 with the following result : — 



No. 1469. Coccus caudatus, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, 

 p. 1085. 



Represented in the National Collection by a single male, 

 which is an unmistakable Monophlebid. The antennae have 

 typical whorls of hair on the nodes. There are no fleshy 

 caudal processes. Walker speaks of abdominal bristles 

 about five times the length of the body ; but any such ap- 

 pendages have now disappeared. The existing characters 

 suggest that the so-called bristles were probably in the form 



