Note on the Occurrence of a new Coccid in the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 
BY 
E. ERNEST GREEN, F.Z.S. 
AN interesting Coccid, at present undescribed, has been 
found at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, where it 
occurs—in some abundance—upon Gaultheria depressa, Hook. f., 
growing in one of the cool houses. The insect proves to be a 
species of Poliaspis—a genus characterised by the possession 
of supplementary circumgenital glands. It is allied to, but 
sufficiently distinct from, Poliaspis cycadis—a species that has 
been found attacking Cycads in one of the tropical houses at 
the Royal Gardens, Kew. The infested plants of Gaultheria 
were raised from seed received from New Zealand ; so there can 
be no question of the introduction of this Coccid with its host 
plant; though, curiously, one of its nearest allies (Poliaspis 
argentosa) is a native of New Zealand. The new species (for 
which the name of gaultheriae is proposed) will be described and 
figured in an early number of the Entomologist’s Monthly 
_ Magazine. 
= - {Notes, R.B.G., Edin., No. LV, November r919.] 
