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smallest, the third and fourth about equal^ the fifth as 

 long as the last two together. The hairs below the head are 

 blackish. Thorax reddish brown, with indistinct grey to- 

 mentum and two yellowish stripes ; the scutelluni yellowish 

 red ; the breast reddish, Avith brown tomentum and black 

 pubescence. Abdomen black, long and pointed ; the second 

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

 fourth with grey hind borders, the remaining segments black 

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

 brown with black pubescence, 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. 



Through 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 Ooccidre in the Collection of the British 

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



In the comprehensive ' Catalogue of the Coccidae 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 

 Catalogue 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. hecanium 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 antennse have 

 typical W'horls 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 



