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these were smeared on both sides. This particular bush was about an average one, 

 and was not picked out by me, because 1 thought it had a larger proportion of egg- 

 leaves than its neighbours. 



" Young mosquitoes are very plentiful too ; I have picked ofE more than 70 from 

 one bush. 



" On one occasion I pulled a seed-bearing branch off a bush and counted 33 leaves 

 on it ; every leaf was smeared on both sides with eggs, and besides this the main 

 branch itself and the smaller ones too had any quantity of eggs sticking to them 

 This will show you mosquitoes are not very particular where they lay their eggs. 

 This is quite in opposition to what others say about mosquitoes depositing their eggs 

 in the young shoots between pekoe and souchong leaf." 



The Mango Homopteuon. 

 Some account was given of the small Homopterous insects found on 

 the mango at p. 4> of No. I of these Notes, and I am now able to 

 give the descriptions of the three species that ordinarily occur :— 



Idiocems niveosparsus, Lethierry. 

 Plate XII, fig. 6. 



Journ. As. Soc. Calc, 1889, p. 252. 



£ , ?. Flavescent, varied fuscous and white: vertex very finely 

 aciculately strigose, infuscate in the middle, with a very minute black 

 point on each side : f rons very finely aciculately strigose, yellow : cly- 

 peus yellow, with basal spot black : pronotum yellow, irrorated fuscous : 

 scutellum with a triangular spot on both sides at the base, a narrow 

 median streak reaching the middle and there with two minute spots, 

 black : extreme apex white : tegmina shining, greyish yellow, some- 

 what transparent, veins fuscous, a white interrupted sub-basal band, 

 and a small irregular white spot at apex of corium ; the sides with two 

 spots, one median, oblong, the other apical, black, interrupted by a 

 distinct hyaline white space : body with feet beneath, variegated fus- 

 cous, unguicala black. Allied to /. notatus, Fabr. ; differs in the black 

 lateral spots and the lateral hyaline space on the tegmina. Long, 4 

 mill. 



Hab. Saharanpur ; Calcutta. 



Idiocerus atMnsonii, Lethierry. 



Journ. As. Soc. Calc, 1889, p. 252. 



<J, ?. Elongate, flavescent: vertex infuscate in the middle, with 

 a basal spot, and very distinct lateral spot in the middle, black : frons 

 yellow : clypeus yellow, with a small, median, black, longitudinal line 

 and very minute, fuscous, lateral strigse : pronotum yellow, with a 

 narrow, median, fuscous, longitudinal line, and two anterior black 

 spots : scutellum on both sides at the base, with a triangular black spot, 

 and, in the middle, with a narrow fuscous streak which is dilated poster- 

 iorly and anteriorly, and also two fuscous small spots : tegmina somewhat 



