I) MISC. PUBLICATION 344, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
ceae, from Sydney, collected at quarantine, District of Columbia, 
W. B. Wood, 1935 (E. Q. No. 431696) ; on J/elaleuca sp. (Myrtaceae) 
(No. 955) and Nuytsia floribunda (Loranthaceae) (No. 944), Swan 
River, Western Australia, both collected by George Compere: on 
Mimosa (Leguminosae), Freemantle, 1900, collected: by Koebele; on 
Petrophila linearia (Proteaceae), Perth, Western Australia (No. 
873), collected by George Compere; on Pimelea linifolia (Thymelaea- 
ceae), Victoria, 1899, “collected by Lidgett; on Pinus halepensis 
(Pinaceae) in park, Warwick, Queensland (from plant specimen in 
Arnold Arboretum herbarium) ; P. insignis, Perth, Western Austra- 
hia, 1897, collected by Fuller (this i is P. proteus of Fuller (22, p. 1344; 
23, p. 466)); on Xanthorrhoca (grass tree, Liliaceae), Sydney (No. 
315), collected by George Compere. In addition, several lots of Aus- 
tralian specimens without positive host association have been exam- 
ined. One of these, on “box hedge,” Richmond, New South Wales, 
Froggatt (No. 28), requires particular mention, as it was previously 
supposed to be P. proteus. 
In addition to the Australian material, recorded above, specimens 
of this insect have been examined that were collected at quarantine 
in the United States, one lot from New Zealand on Pyrus malus 
(Rosaceae), at New York City, by Fox, Dodd, and Kostal, 1934 
(N. Y. No. 22995), and one from Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 
Haworthia neilii (Liliaceae), at Washington, D. C., by Limber in 
1936 (E. Q. A34027). 
PARLATORIA PROTEUS Curtis 
(BLS SBsapleO Br ples isle) 
No types of this species have been available, and the concept here 
presented is based on an examination of specimens from orchidaceous 
and other hosts from many parts of the world. Curtis (48, p. 676) 
first described the insect in 1843, reporting its occurrence in green- 
houses in England on succulent leaves of a plant, perhaps an Aloe or 
Amaryllis, Tt was first recognized in this country by Comstock 
(13, p. 114), who recorded its presence in the Department of Agricul- 
ture greenhouses in Washington on Macrozamia.® Subsequent pub- 
Hications have reported this insect from widely scattered localities 
throughout the world. Undoubtedly many of these records refer to 
other forms as recognized in this publication, For example, the 
status of Fuller's record of proteus from pine in Western Australia 
has been discussed previously under p7ttespord, and Hall (26, p. 457) 
has called attention to the inaccuracy of older records for the occur- 
rence of proteus in Egypt. Probably it will never be possible to check 
the correctness of all these published records. In view of this actual 
and probable confusion the published records for the host association 
and distribution of proteus are not summarized here. 
Several forms have been variously placed as varieties or synonyms 
of proteus. Of these, crotonis Dougl. and pergandii Comst. are here 
accepted as valid and distinct species, palmae Mask. is placed as a 
° The original mapnication of this record reports the host plant as Microsamia. From 
consultation with botanists of the Department of Agriculture and their examination of a 
portion of the host material from the original collection, it appears (1) that Microsamia 
has had no standing as the name of a genus of living plants, and (2) that the host may 
well have been a species of Macrozamia. It is therefore concluded that the name “IWicro- 
samia’ is either a typographical erroz or may have been copied from an incorrectly spelled 
name attached to the host plant. 
