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Leucaspis riccae, Targioni-Tozzetti. 



Egypt : Cairo, 26. xii. 12 (Lewis H. Gongh). 



The specimens are from cultivated olive, which seems to be the principal 

 food-plant of this insect. It is certainly an injurious species, and has been 

 recorded from France, Italy, Greece and Cyprus, but not hitherto from Egypt. 



Mytilaspis (Lepidosaphes) beckii (Newman). 



Zanzibar, 27. x. 12 (Dr. W. M t Aders), on orange. 



This pest of the orange is known better under its old name Mytilaspis citricola, 

 Packard. 



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