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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Pephricus fasciatus, sp. n. 



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p. fasciatus, Dist. 



Ochraceous ; a broad fus- 

 cous fascia traversing the 

 pronotuai and its lateral 

 lobes, and another crossing 

 the abdomen and extending 

 through the fourth abdominal 

 lobe and occupying the whole 

 of its apex ; apex of the fifth 

 abdominal lobe also fuscous. 

 A few irregular scattered 

 small fuscous spots on the 

 upper surface. 



Long. 11 millim. 

 Hab. West Africa (Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Allied to P. livingstoni, Westw., but differing by the truncate 

 apices of the abdominal lobes, &c. 



NOTES ON SOME COCCID^ OF THE EARLIER 

 WRITERS. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



In the course of my bibliographical investigations among the 

 earlier works treating of Coccidse, I have found so much that has 

 been misunderstood by later writers, that it seems worth while 

 to report the following results, although the more startling dis- 

 coveries are not here mentioned, having been set forth in Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1899. 



PuLviNARiA viTis (L.) ; Coccus vitis, L., S. N. x. 1758, p. 456. 

 — This is the well-known Pulvinaria of the vine, well figured by 

 Reaumur, whose figure is duly cited. Calypticus spumosus, 

 Costa, Faun. Nap. 1829, is said to be the same, in which case 

 Calypticus apparently takes the place of Pulvinaria, and the 

 species becomes Calypticus vitis (L.). 



Pulvinaria mesptli (Gmel.) ; Coccus mespili, GmeL, Syst. 

 Nat. 1788, p. 2221.— This is based on Geoffroy, Ins. Par. i. 

 p. 508, No. 16. Fonscolombe in 1834 describes Coccus ci'atcegi, 

 Fb., and gives mespili, Geoff., as a synonym. Signoret says 

 this is mespili, but not cratcegi, which is oxyacantkcB, L. Fons- 

 colombe's description evidently relates to a Pulvinaria. Signoret 

 later referred Geoffroy's insect to Pseudococcus [i. e. Phenacoccus) , 

 which is evidently an error. 



Pulvinaria sericea (Fourc.) ; on oak near Paris, lanata^ 



