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the dorsal tubular spinnerets are quite characteristic of the genus Diaspis, 
and we think that it has been correctly placed. 
Mr. Fletcher sent this species to the Museum, but gives no notes upon 
it save that it occurs on peach and pear. 
II. Aspidiotus {Chrys omphalus) aonidum , Linn., Syst. Nat., Ed. x., i., p. 455 
(1758). 
Chrys omphalus ficus, Ashmead, American Ent., iii., p. 267 (1880). 
9 s and £ puparia. 
Common on Jambosa vulgaris and orange, Alexandria and Cairo, 
Egypt (Newst.) ; on orange (Fletcher). The Egyptian specimens, like the 
English, are very dark. This species also occurs abundantly in the United 
States, West Indies, Australia, Ceylon and Japan. Berlese has found it in 
Italy, and it has occurred at Kew. It also occurs on oleander, rose and 
orchids. 
III. Aspidiotus ( Ghnysomphalus ) aurantii, Masked, Trans. New Zealand 
Inst., xi., p. 199 (1878). 
On cultivated orange, Alexandria, Egypt (Newst.). 9 s only. 
IV. Mytilaspis pomorum * var. iritis, G-oethe, Jahrbiicher des Nassauischen 
Vereins fur Nat., p. 118 (1884). 
9 ’s and $ puparia. 
Not hitherto recorded from Egypt. The “puparia ” or ovisacs of the 
females are smaller and of a somewhat paler colour than typical examples 
found in Great Britain on apple and other trees, but the structural details 
of (he females are specifically identical with typical specimens. There are 
quite a number of male puparia present, and they are interesting as being 
the first recorded examples of this variety. 
Mr. Fletcher found this mussel scale encrusting a vine in the open air. 
V. Lichtensia ^ ephedrae, Newst., Ent. Mo. Mag., s.s. vol. xii., p. 83, fig. 5 
9 s and puparia. 
Discovered by Dr. George Schweinfurth in the Waddy Gerrawy, Helo- 
nan, 15' south of Cairo, and forwarded to this country for identification 
by Admiral R. W. Bloomfield. 
Habitat on Ephedra alte , C. A. Meg. 
This interesting species is at present not recorded from any other part 
of the world. 
VI. Ceroplastes mimosse, Signoret ; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5), ii., p. 46 (1872) ; 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. xlvii (1872). 
Egypt. On Mimosa nilotica. 
It is just possible that this insect may be an immature form of the 
next species. 
nr *, -^ erna, ld gives priority to Lepidosaphes ulmi, Linn., “ Cat. Coccidee of the 
World,” p. 314, no. 1431, 1903. 
