The Zoologist— March, 1871. 2531 



Neuroterus. Mr. Blackmore observes of A and B that " he remembers 

 obtaining them all from one oak tree in the Gibel-el-Kebir, a small 

 mountain near Tangier, either in March or April." 



The Rev. H. S. Gorham exhibited a beetle new to the British hst, 

 concerning which he made the following remarks : — 



" Oxi/telus fulvipes, Erichs. Kafer der Mark B. 590 : Genera et species 

 Staph. 787; Kraatz Naturg. der Ins. Deuts. ii. 852. Of the indigenous 

 species most allied to 0. rugosus, Fab., from which it differs as follows: — 

 The head, thorax and elytra are much less closely punctured, especially the 

 former, which also lacks the depression of the clypeus, conspicuous in 

 rugosus ; this part also being shining instead of opaque. The thorax is 

 proportionally shorter and more narrowed towards the base ; the lateral 

 margins obsoletely crenulate. The legs and first four joints of the antennae 

 are testaceous ; these joints, however, in my specimens are spotted with 

 pitchy. The third joint is shorter than the second; whereas the reverse is 

 the case in rugosus. In the male characters beneath, this species presents 

 considerable differences, — the fifth segment being simple (in rugosus tlie 

 margin bears a conspicuous tubercle), and the seventh has the margin 

 simply bisiuuate. One male and three female specimens, found by myself, 

 near a wet spot in a wood, near Needwood, Staffordshire, January, 1870. It 

 is found also in Germany, Austria and France." 



Prof. Westwood exhibited drawings of a species of Coccus, infesting 

 Cypripedium niveum, from Siam. These Cocci were situated on the under 

 side of the leaves in groups of four or five, or more. The body of the scale 

 was very small, apparently composed of waxy exudation ; on the surface 

 were six raised radiating white lines, corresponding to the legs of the 

 insect, and each of these raised lines was produced into a spiue-like process 

 extending beyond the margins of the scale; beneath there was an oval 

 receptacle, which contained the pupa or perfect insect, but always of the 

 male sex. On the under side the mid-rib of tlie same leaves were 

 differently formed, and not stellate scales, which probably were those of the 

 female. Some of the first-described scales were altered in form, the raised 

 lines being obhterated, and the surface swollen : these he considered to be 

 infested with parasites. He proposed to name the insect Coccus stellifer. 



Mr. Staiuton remarked that at a recent Meeting of the Scientific 

 Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society there were exhibited samples 

 of lemons, from Palermo, infested with a Coccus distinct from that which 

 ordinarily affects the orange. The rind immediately around the scales 

 never acquired the yellow colour, so that the lemons appeared to be 

 sprinkled with green spots. The presence of these Cocci was of consider- 

 able importance, inasmuch as it rendered the fruit useless for preserving 

 purposes. 



