100 



ately £70, you could add to this the expenses and delay in Jamaica, and 

 make a calculation for yourself. 



The hire of such a ship would be approximately £20 per day, and 

 that would cover a commission of 2 par cent, on the hire money. 



We forget how many bunches she carries, but the people at Baracao 

 can easily tell you what a ship of 950 tons g oss (or 650 tons net, which 

 is the same thing), is able to carry. 



Yours, &c , 



Tatham, B rom age & Co. 



coccnxa: or scale insects.— vii. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell, Professor of Entomology at the New Mexico 



Agricultural College. 



(33). Ceroplastes albolineatus, Ckll. — see p. 7. 

 It wa9 surmised that this species had been introduced into Jamaica, 

 hut when writing before, no other locality was known. Dr. H. Yon 

 Thering now sends five specimens of it from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where it 

 infests Baccharis, Schinus, &c. These new specimens show that the 

 insect grows as large as C. ceriferus, and the horn may be tolerably well 

 developed ; but it will always be very easily distinguished by its pinkish 

 colour (ceriferus being white), with the two white lines on each side. 



Genus Inglisia; the Glassy Scales. 



In this genus the animal resembles a Leianium, but is covered by a 

 fragile glassy scale Thus the normal female of laglisia resembles a good 

 deal the little glassy male scales of Lecanium, and the latter might 

 possibly be mistaken for the former on superficial examination. 

 Inglisia is a genus of New Zealand and Australia, but one species is 

 found in Trinidad. 



(35). Inglisia vitrea. — Ckll. (The Trinidad Glassy Scale). 



Diagnosis — A small oval moderately convex scale about an eight of 

 an inch long, white and glassy, but skinny red-brown when the glassy 

 scale is removed. With a lens it is seen that the glassy scale is 

 divided into plates, tortoise-like. 



Distribution. — Only known from Trinidad, where it was found by 

 Mr. Urich. 



Food-plant. — Acacia sp. 



Destructive ness. — It would be troublesome if abundant, but at present 

 it is apparently quite a rarity. 



Enemies. — It has an undetermined parasite. 



Genus Vinsoniz ; the Star Scales. 



Only one species of this genus is known. It is covered with a glassy 

 scale something like an Inglisia, but is very easily recognised by the 

 seven glassy rays, giving it a star-like appearance. The central portion 

 is convex and reddish-brown. 



(36.) Vinsonia stellifera, Westwood (The Star Scale). 



Diagnosis — See above under the genus. 



Distribution. — Known from both hemispheres; in the eastern, from 

 the Island of Renunion, and believed to occur also in Siam ; besides 



