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8. Lecanium hibernaculorum, Targioni. 
Also European; the body, in its later stages becomes quite rounded or 
bag-shaped, the open mouth of the bag downwards on the leaf. The bag 
becomes filled with eggs and young. The skin is marked with small spots 
at pretty regular distances. It is common in our greenhouses. 
4. Lecanium maculatum, Signoret. 
European; occurring here on a hothouse plant, Bavardia. The species 
is distinguished by a row of oval spots commencing above the abdominal 
lobes and extending up the centre of the dorsal region as far as the rostrum. 
I need not dwell longer on the species of Lecanies; there are others 
here, but European. Nor shall I dwell upon the next subsection on my list. 
II.—PurvisanrE x. 
As far as my observation has extended, this subsection is confined here 
to one species, namely, the Camellia scale. 
5. Pulvinaria camellicola, Signoret. 
The insect, which is European, differs from Lecanium hesperidum chiefly 
inits mode of propagation. Instead of producing the young beneath itself 
it forms elongated cocoons of white cottony fibre in which it encloses its 
eggs. Ihave not been fortunate enough to procure a male, although, as I 
understand, it is not rare. - 
III.—Lecanto-piaspip#, Targioni. 
I come now to my third subsection, containing in this country only 
genera and species which are, as I believe, new to science. The subsection 
itself has been created by Professor Targioni-Tozzetti, of Florence, in order 
to include those genera of Coccide which partake of the characters of the 
Lecanide and of the characters of the Diaspidm. They have the mentum 
and abdominal lobes of Lecanium, but they are surrounded by a shell, shield 
or test, as in Diaspis. This test or carapace is therefore a character clearly 
distinguishing them from the other Lecanide which have the body naked in 
allits stages; at the same time the abdominal lobes forbid their entrance 
into any other group. 
It would appear that Professor Targioni makes one of the distinguishing 
characters of this subsection the fact that the insects lose their limbs like 
the Diaspidz, ** becoming apodous in the adult stage." Now the genera 
and species which I have to describe do not all entirely agree with this 
account. The feet and antenna are preserved at least until the female has 
propagated her young and sometimes still later, although in other instances 
I have been unable to detect the limbs in the later stages. To the naked 
eye, indeed, or even with a low power of the microscope, all the insects 
appear apodous ; but a higher power often reveals the limbs as if buried in 
the fat body. It seems to me that I have therefore only two alternatives; 
