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young insect the presence of digituli,” or organs like those described by 
him in his genus Dactylosphoira (see ^ Record/ 1867, p. 483), which he here 
seems inclined to place with the Coccidse (or Monomera). He states that 
the tarsi consist of one joint with no claw, that the articulation of the body 
is distinct throughout life, and that the female dwells beneath a scale of her 
own construction j and upon these characters he proposes to establish for tlie 
insect a new genus, Lepidosaphes, and a new family, hepidomplvidce. 
Aspidiotus conchifoi'mis. On the habits of this species, see Riley, Pract. 
Entom. ii. pp. 81, 82. 
Chermes Jicus (Linn.). Frauenfeld discusses (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in 
Wien, xviii. pp. 896, 897) the generic name to be given to this species, and 
indicates that Homotoma (Gu4r.) is earlier by two years than Forster’s Ani- 
sostropha. 
Lacerda publishes (Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1868, pp. Ixxxvii-lxxxix) a note 
on Coccus psidii, which belongs, according to Signoret, to the genus Cero- 
plastes. 
Pemphigus vitifolice (Fitch). On this species see Shinier, Pract. Entom. ii. 
pp. 17-20. 
Lepidosaphes, g. n., Shimer, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. p. 373 (vide suprcl). 
Sp. Aspidiotus linearis (conckiformis, Gmel.). 
New species : — 
Aspidiotus zonatus, Frauenfeld, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xviii. p. 888, 
on Querctts montana, in the Vienna Botanic Garden. 
Chermes cy cadis, Boisduval, Ent. Hortic. p. 323, on Cycads in hothouses ; 
C. dionis, Boisd. 1. c. p. 327, on Dion edule in hothouses ; C, aloes, Boisd. 1. c. 
p. 327, fig. 42 (p. 328), on Agaves and Aloes ; C. anthurii, Boisd. /. c. p. 328, 
fig. 43 (p. 329), on the leaves of Anthv.riumQ.rA Caladium', C.fidchironice, 
Boisd. 1. c. Pi 330, on pidchironia senegahnsis and Elais guineensis j C. ericce, 
Boisd. 1. c. p. 830, on cultivated heaths; (?. punctiformis, Boisd. ibid., on cul- 
tivated Orchideae and Ferns ; C. camellice, Boisd. /. c. p. 334, on Camellia and 
Thea] C.Jilicum, Boisd. l.c. p. 335, on Ferns in hothouses ; C. hihernacu- 
lorum, Boisd. 1. c. p. 337, on various plants in hothouses ; C. aurantii, Boisd. 
1. c. p. 338, on oraflges in Algeria ; C. cycadicola, Boisd. 1. c. p. 345, fig. 46 
(p. 344), on Cycas revoluta. 
Coccus mamillarice, Boisduval, 1. c. p. 363, on Mamillaria ; C, ? latanice, 
Boisd. 1. c. p. 355, figs. 49 & 50, on Latania. 
