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JUNE 7th, 1906. 



The seventeenth regular meeting was presided over by Mr. 

 F. W. Terry. 



Member elected: Mr. F. Muir. 



Notes and Exhibitions. 



Mr. Kotinsky exhibited specimens of the Coccid Morganella 

 maskelli Cock, on shoots of fig. After comparison with Leon- 

 ardi's figure of Aspidiotus {Morganella) longissimus he concurs 

 with Maskell in taking the local insect to be but a variety 

 (ornatus) of the Demerara species.* 



He also exhibited two Chalcids bred from Ceroplastes rubens 

 one of these is a Microterys, probably flavus; it differs from this 

 in that the light wedges on the wing unite, thus completely 

 separating the apical dusky spot into a bar and spot. He 

 further exhibited a Scymnid bred from Ceroputo bahiae, Ehr., 

 on Salicornia, received from Mr. Koebele, collected near Alameda, 

 California. A colony of twelve of this Scymnid were released at 

 Waikiki upon a Banyan tree infested with Pseudococcus nipae. 

 He also exhibited an avocado Pear twig which contained a 

 batch of defunct eggs of some Locustid. Mr. Swezey expressed 

 the opinion that the eggs were laid by Elimaea appendiculata 

 when the twig was still very young and tender; this ascribes to 

 this Locustid the habit of laying eggs in both twig and leaf 

 edges. 



Mr. Kotinsky also exhibited specimens of Agromyza sp., a 

 Tortricid moth and several Chalcidoids bred from Radish leaves. 



Since presenting the above note the author sent specimens to Mr. 

 Newstead who kindly compared them with a specimen of Morgan's type 

 lot in his collection, and found that they " agree in every detail with 

 Morgan's co-type of his Aspidiotus longispina." This determination 

 leaves Cockerell's M. maskelli and Maskell 's var. ornatus as synonyms 

 of Morgan's name. 



