52 Indian Museum Notes. [ Yol. IIL 



Mr. Maskell furnishes the following note upon the subject of the 

 insect : — 



Dactyhpius bromelia, Bonclie, 



Bonche, Naturgesicht, 1834, p. 20, 2. 



Siguoretj Anuales de la See. En torn, de France^ December 1874, 

 p. 310. 



Adult female pale reddish brown, or yellowish -brown : form convex, 

 sub-elliptical, rounded in front and rather acuminate posteriorly : 

 length averaging- about ^V i^^^'h. Antennae cf eig-ht joints (rsirelv 

 seven) : joints sub-equal except the last which is longer than any two 

 others together : the pubescence of the antennae is not close or long. 

 Feet moderately long : the tibia and tai'sus rather strongly haired on the 

 inner margin, with two spines at the extremity of the tibia: the four 

 digituler are rather long and strong : the tarsus is more than half as 

 long as the tibia. Anal tubercles somewhat prominent, each bearing a 

 long seta : anal ring with six hairs. On each segment of the body is a row 

 of shortish hairs, mingled with circular spinnerets : and on the head, 

 between the antennae, the hairs form a rather thick tuf fc. 



Larva yellow or brownish : form elliptical, tapering somewhat poste- 

 riorly : anal tubercles prominent : antennae of probably six sub-equal 

 joints. Length of larva about ^-^ inch. 

 Male unknown. 



Habitat — on Bromelia, Eihiscus, Canna, Zanzibar, and probably 

 South America : on Mullerry, Bengal. 



The presence of the coceid Asjoidiohis trans pare7is, Green, was noticed 



upon some tea branches, forwarded to Calcutta in 



AsphVotus transpa- January 1894 from Jalpaiguri. The insect was 

 rens,_ Green. •' i o 



only represented by a few scattered females upon 



one of the leaves, but its occurrence in this locality is of interest as it 



does not appear to have been previously recorded from India. It was 



originally described by Mr. E, E. Green, who found it upon the tea plant 



in Ceylon. 



A coceid, forwarded by Mr. E. E. Green, as found attacking cultivated 



.,. . ferns in Ceylon in September 1892, has been 

 Vnionaspis orasiliensis. • ■> • r, -, ■, 



identified by Mr. W. M. Maskell as CJdonaspis 



brasiliensis, Signoret. Mr. Maskell notes that the original species was 



from Bahia and as it has since been noticed on an orchid from New 



South "Wales, it is likely to have a wide tropical and sub -tropical range. 



