310 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [December, 



being entirely absent in all specimens that I have seen, De- 

 pressula is compared by its author with senilis, with which, in 

 my opinion, it has httle affinity. So far as I know, senilis and 

 allies are partial, if not peculiar, to salt or alkaline flats ; de- 

 prcssida has been taken by Dr. Fenyes on Mount Tallac, at an 

 altitude of 9,000 feet. 



Attention has already been called* to the peculiar asymmet- 

 rical emargination of the last ventral segment in hirticollis, 

 repanda, 12-guttata, oregona and limbata. To this list must 

 now be added depressida and eureka. Inasmuch as all these 

 species (with the possible exception of limbata, in which the 

 character is less marked) are recognized as mutually more or 

 less closely allied, this unusual structure appears to have a 

 special significance. 



The fact seems not to have been recorded, or if so, it has 

 escaped me, that in scutellaris and varieties the front is quite con- 

 spicuously hairy in the male and scarcely at all so in the female. 



The Greenhouse Coccidae, L 



By George B. King, Lawrence, Mass. 



. (Continued from page 233.) 



Hemicoccin^. 



10. Orthezia insignis Dougl. 1887. 



Found in a greenhouse in New York (R. H. Pettit), on 

 greenhouse plants at Amherst and Cambridge, Mass. (L,ouns- 

 bury), under glass at Trinidad, and found on exotic plants in 

 the hothouse at Kew, England. It seems to be a general 

 feeder on greenhouse plants, and is found living out of doors 

 in Europe and America. 



ASTEROLECaNIIN^. 



1 1 . Asterolecaninm anrenm Boisd . 



Is found on leaves of Hippeastrum , cultivated under glass at 

 Trinidad, and a greenhouse species of Europe. Signoret. 



Lecaniin^. 



12. Pnlvinaria cistri Bauch6. 



This is recorded from a greenhouse, and its native home is 

 uncertain. 



* Ent. News, 1895, p. 179. 



