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which precludes its admission to the Aleurodid^. Of the specimens 

 examined 95 per cent, were parasitized by a small Hymenopterous insect 

 belonging to the Chalcidid.e. This is evidently the insect referred to by 

 Mr, Gow^dey * as the " Pitted Scale/'' but it possesses no characters in 

 common with the CocciD^. 



Efforts should be made to rear the adults, a comparatively easy matter if 

 the puparia are collected when mature. 



The pits or pseudo-galls produced by this insect are very characteristic, 

 though it is well known that many species of Psyllid^e produce galls and 

 other malformations of the leaves which they are known to infest. 



21st Jan. 1910. 



* Colonial Eeports : Uganda, No. 64, 1909, p. 22. 



