482 General Notes. | June, 
exact limits of either of these two broods, or indeed any record 
of the appearance of the insects the present year, and these 
records will be all the more valuable if the years of earlier appear- 
ances in the same localities can also be furnished. Information 
on these points should be sent to the editor of this department. 
A NEW SPECIES OF Oak CocciID MISTAKEN For A GALL.—An 
esteemed correspondent from Ohio (Dr. Jno. A. Warder) sends 
s e supposed to be some kind of gall which he found at 
Iron mountain, Mo., on the twigs of Quercus palustris, They 
are pretty large, globular or almost globular, objects fastened to 
the twigs either singly or in clusters, as we are accustomed to see 
or interrupted black lines. These objects have frequently been 
mistaken for galls, even by entomologists, but they are in reality 
the female scales of a Coccid, and are often infested by a Lept- 
terized as follows : 
Kermes galliformis n. sp. Mature 9 scale, average length 5 mm. Subspherical, 
usually somewhat broader than long, and often with a broad shallow constriction 
medig-dorsally. Attached by a broad, dark-brown cut or excavation, which 1s Cov” 
th. Gro 
under lens minutely and evenly speckled with brown; more or less su 
mottled with gray or brown, the constriction, when present, generally dark. ; 
of about seven irregular rows of black punctations running across the scale, 0 ee 
connected by an irregular black line, and this again relieved by white or pale bb 
low. The three uppermost rows most distinct and constant. f 
The species is quite variable, the general shape and the form 0: 
cut point of attachment varying according to the position on @ 
twig or as individuals are crowded; while the general color varies 
according as one color or the other predominates. Specimens 
striction and with a pale-gray rather than a pale-yellow ground 
color. Prof. Comstock, Entomologist of the Department of Ag- 
riculture, is at work on this family of insects, and will, we hope, 
soon give us the natural history of many of the interesting forms, 
of the development of which nothing has so far been recorded.— 
C. V. Riley. 
ruary 
Tue “ Warter-WEEVIL” oF THE Rice Prant.—In the Feb bias 
number we called attention to two of the worst insect enemi oe 
the rice plant, first, the “ grub,” which injures the plant wher 
