APHIDIDiE PEDICULIDA^. 
Ins, 291 
Phylloxera vastatrix. 
Basset, N. La Yigne et le Phylloxera. Rev. Industr. Chim. et Agric. 
i. pp. 7-20. 
The author comes to the conclusions that the Phylloxera is not 
the primary cause of the destruction of the vines, but merely an 
occasional symptom, and that it only attacks diseased vines. As far as 
this first portion of his paper goes, he seems inclined to attribute the 
destruction of the vines to deterioration of the vine itself, caused by the 
unnatural conditions under which it is cultivated. 
Girard, A. ;6tudes sur le Phylloxera vastatrix. Paris : 1878. 
Not seen by the Recorder. 
Phylloxera. A great number of communications on this subject are 
scattered through C. R. and other French journals. 
Phylloxera noticed as occurring in hothouses in England and Scotland ; 
R. McLachlan, Ent. M. M. xv. p. 69. 
CoCCIDiE. 
Lecanium acericorticis^ Fitch (= acericola^ Walsh & Riley). Trans- 
formations fully described and figured, with full notices of habits, para- 
sites, the mode in which the insect spreads, and the best means of 
destroying it ; E. A, Smith, Am. Nat. vii. pp. 655-661, 808 & 809. 
Lecanium tulipiferce. Habits and transformations described and 
figured ; A. J. Cook, Oanad. Ent. xi. pp. 192-196, figs. 1-6. 
Lahoulhenia, g. n., J. Lichtenstein, MT. schw. ent. Ges. v. p. 299. Allied 
to Westwoodia and Rupertsia ; type, L. hrachypodiif sp. n., 1. c., Mont- 
pellier. 
RhizcecuSj g. n., J. Kiinckel d’Herculais, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. 
p. 163. Type, R.falcifer^s^. n., 1. c. p. 164, pi. vi. Parasitic on the roots 
of Seaforthia elegans^ a palm introduced, from New South Wales. The 
habits, &c., of the larva and female are fully discussed, pp. 161-163 ; the 
male is still unknown. The female is allied to Dactylopius ; its tarsi are 
not furnished with capitate hairs ; it is eyeless, and the last joint of its 
five-jointed antennas is set with sickle-shaped hairs. 
Aleurodidjj. 
Aleurodes. J. W. Douglas gives an account of the natural history and 
a list of species of this genus, chiefly compiled from previous authors ; 
Ent. M. M. xiv. pp. 230-232. 
(ANOPLURA.) 
PEDICULID2B. 
Pediculus capitis with abnormally developed tracheas; P. Bertkau, 
Verb. Ver. Rheinl. xxxiii. SB. p. 36. 
