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McIntirE in 1889, and with the paper in this issue by 

 Mr. R. Ward, the following short note will no doubt be 

 of some special interest. It is taken from a communica- 

 tion from Mr. MclNTlRE, who at the instance of Mr. 

 Jenman and Mr. Ward, has so long interested himself 

 in getting the scale-inse6ls sent home from the Botanic 

 Gardens, identified by specialists. 



Mr. Morgan found on Dictyospermum album the 

 following coccids : — Ischnaspis filiformts, Mytilaspis 

 buxi (one of the mussel-shaped species), and two new 

 species of Aspidiotus, which he has described in the 

 Entomological Monthly Magazine, as A. articulatus z.wA 

 A. dtdyospermi ; while on Cupania sapida he found 

 another new species of the same genus which he has 

 named Aspidiotus longispina. 



Some brown convex Lecanium scales from Cyrtan- 

 thera, sent home in May, 1889, were at first thought to 

 be a new species by Mr. DOUGLAS ; but after breaking 

 up most of them for antennae, etc., he is doubtful whether 

 they are distinft from L. hibernaculum. 



On Anona reticulata, Mr. MORGAN found Aspidiotus 

 destru6lor: on Snides, he found a new species of 

 Aspidiotus; and on Bignonia pyramidalis, a new 

 Lecanium. Both of these new species will be described 

 hereafter. 



Young i4<5^/«<a!.— During the month of Tune, 1890, a 

 fine living specimen of the aboma (Epicrates cenchria) 

 was brought to the Museum in a small closed box, in 

 which were found three eggs (one only unbroken) which 

 had been laid by the reptile. The eggs were long and 

 cylindrical — about 2 inches by \ an inch. Though kept 



