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hlanchctrdi. In discussing Eriopeltis festuces, the author gives some interest- 
ing details of the different conditions of the adult, in which the antennae and 
legs are subject to atrophy (pi. vi. figs. 3e & 3/). 
In Pharm. J. & Tr. (3) p. 268 et seq., is an account of the rearing of the 
cochineal insect in the Canary Islands. 
Chinese wax.” Cooper (in ‘ Travels of a Pioneer in Commerce ’ &c., 1871) 
believes this to he secreted by a Coccus (? C. ceriferus, F.). He gives an 
account of its mode of production &c. For observations by Silliman, see Am, 
Nat. V. p. 683. 
Coccus cacti and vitis : figures and notice of economy, in Ent. v. p. 327. 
Coccus persicce and vitis. Injuries to cultivated plants discussed by Kiinstler, 
Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxi. Beih. pp. 68 & 87. 
Westwood (Pr. E. Soc. 1871, p, iii) briefly describes (and provisionally 
names stelli/er) a Coccus infesting Cypripedium nivcum in Siam. 
Stain ton {ibid.') remarks upon injuries to lemons from Palermo caused by a 
Coccus distinct from the species afiecting oranges. 
Chlamydococcus nivalis^ A. Br., found in Styria by Strauss (Verb. z.-b. 
Wien, xxi. p. 81). 
Aspidiotus conchiformis, Gm^l., “ the Oyster-shell Bark-louse.” For par- 
ticulars of economy &c., and figures, cf. i. Hep. Ins. Ont. p. 73. 
(Anoplura.) 
pEDICULIDiE. 
Cutting (Arch. Tr. Oil. Soc. i. p. 105 et seq.) gives a popular outline of the 
structure and habits of the members of this group. 
Giebel (Z. ges. Naturw. xxxvii. pp. 173-179), in his ^^Analytische Ueber- 
sicht der Siiugethierlause llaematopinus und Trichodectes,” gives a list of 
Mammalia upon which the species referred to are parasitic. Pp. 177-179 
refer to the former genus. The author proposes the generic name Echino- 
phthirius for his JT. setosus, found on Fhoca vitulinaj which alone appears ca- 
pable of separation from the others. The tables &c. appear to be extracted 
from the author’s promised monograph of Epizoa. 
Pedicidus ( Gmiodes) falcicomis, Nitzsch. Dunning (Pr. E. Soc. 1871, p. vii) 
refers to the identity of P. pavonis, L., with this species. 
Maddox (M. Micr. J. vi. pp. 144-149, pi. xcvi.) describes and figures, with 
details, hexapod parasites found on the head of Vespertilio pipistrellus^ either 
referable to the Pediculina or to a larval form of Psoreptes. 
Idolocoris (Walker, MS.), g. n., Bichter, Sci. Goss. 1871, pp. 131 & 211, The 
author states that this is the type of a new family next the Acanthiidce, forming 
the extreme limit of the Ilemiptera, and perhaps links will be found to con- 
nect it with some of the Eproboscideous Eiptet'a.^^ E. elephantis, sp. n., id. 
1. c. p. 132, fig. 67, parasitic upon the elephant in Ceylon. Denny (jun.), 
ibid. p. 185, states it to be intermediate “ between the Pidicidce and ChnicidceJ* 
Buchanan White, ibid. p. 234, renames the genus Phantasmocoris {Idolocoris 
being preoccupied by Douglas Sc Scott, 1865) ; and, finally, ibid. p. 278, the 
insect is stated to be the Hcematomyzus elephantis of Piaget (1869), who as- 
sociates it with Ilcematopinus {Ehynchota) and Docophorus {Mallophaga). 
