306 PROFESSOR R. NEWSTEAD — NOTES ON 



Gold Coast : Aburi, 9. vii. 13 {W. H. Patterson), 



Food-plant not stated. All the ovisacs in the consignment had been destroyed 

 by a predaceous insect of some kind, so that nothing but the outline or tracks of 

 the ovisacs were left. 



Southern Nigeria : Ibadan, on cotton, 14. xii. 11 {A. D. Peacock), 



Several mandibulate larvae belonging apparently to the Lepidoptera were 

 found in association with the females and may have served therefore to keep this 

 Coccid in check. 



Lecanium (Saissetia) oleae, Bern. 



Uganda : Entebbe, on Hura crepitans, 30. iii. 13 (C C. Gowdcy). 



The alteration in the form of the females (" scales ") and their antennae, due to 

 Chalcidid parasites, is very marked in these examples ; and although I have 

 been unable to preserve the marginal spines in any of the microscopical prepara- 

 tions, the specimens are I consider referable to this species. 



Lecanium (Saissetia) hemisphaericum (Targ.). 



British Guiana : Georgetown, on leaves of Solanum melongena, 30. iii. 13 

 (G. E. Bodkin). 



Lecanium (Saissetia) nigrum (Nietn.). 



British Guiana : Brickdam Field, Georgetown, on hybrid cotton, 23. vii. 12 

 (G. E. Bodkin). 



Lecanium (Eucalymnatus) tesselatum var. perforatum, Newst. 



British Guiana : Broad St., Georgetown, on French cashew {Eugenia 

 -amlwlana) 24. vii. 12 (G. E. Bodkin). 



Vinsonia stellifera. West wood. 



British Guiana : Broad St., Georgetown, on French cashew {Eugenia 

 jambolana), 24. vii. 12 (G. E. Bodkin). 



Ceroplastes ugandae, Newstead. 



Uganda : Entebbe, on pigeon pea (Cajanus indicus), 30. iii. 13 (young Q Q), 

 30. v. 13 (old adult Q Q) (C. C Gowdey). 



The tests of the old adult females being in a much more perfect state of 

 preservation than those upon which the original description* was based, prove 

 that white secretionary matter from the stigmatic clefts is present on the exterior of 

 the test and extends considerably heyond the latter in short, stout, irregularly curved 

 processes. The tests of the young females were so much damaged as to render 

 them unsuitable for descriptive purposes. 



Ceroplastes floridensis, Comstock. 



British Guiana : Botanic Gardens, Georgetown, 1. iii. 13 (G. E. Bodkin). 



* Bull. Ent. Res. ii, p. 94. 



