On some Coccidte in the British Museum. 373 smallest, the third and fourth about equal^ the fifth as long as the last two together. The hairs below the head are blackish. Thorax reddish brown, with indistinct grey to-mentum and two yellowish stripes ; the scutelluni yellowish red ; the breast reddish, Avith brown tomentum and black pubescence. Abdomen black, long and pointed ; the second segment widest, the first and third with yellow, the second and fourth with grey hind borders, the remaining segments black with some red on the sides; underside black. Legs reddish brown with black pubescence, the fore femora stout. Wings dark brown with clear base ; a clear band in the middle crossing the base of the discal cell and extending to the fifth posterior cell, another on the apex crossing the fork of the third longitudinal vein ; there is also a clear space in the anal cell, and the axillary part of the wing is clear. Length 18 mm. Through the kindness of Mr. Verrall this species is now placed in the British Museum Collection with the species for which the genus Gastroxides was formed. L. — On some Ooccidre in the Collection of the British Museum. By E. Ernest Green, "F.E.S. In the comprehensive ' Catalogue of the Coccidae of the World ^ by Mrs. M. E. Fernald is a list of some sixty species " without description or not recognizable. ■'' Of these, the following five names are cited from the Catalogue of the British Museum, Homoptera (1852), and credited to Walker, whose descriptions were too often inadequate for recognition : — 1469. Coccus caudatus. 1489. poterii. 1492. sinensis. 1502. hecanium australe. 1503. capense. I have been given an opportunity of examining the types of these species contained in the British Museum collection, with the following result : — No. 1469. Coccus caudatus, Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Horn, p. 1085. Represented in the National Collection by a single male, which is an unmistakable Monophlebid. The antennse have typical W'horls of hair on the nodes. There are no fleshy caudal processes. Walker speaks of abdominal bristles about five times the length of the body ; but any such ap-pendages have now disappeared. The existing characters suggest that the so-called bristles were probably in the form
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