Mr. C. C. Gowdey, the Government Entomologist of Uganda, is to be congratulated upon the number of interesting forms which he has forwarded to this country for identification from time to time. Many of the species, if not all, are of economic importance, and, judging by their numbers, must have sorely taxed the plants upon which they were found.

The following notes are based on observations made during the months of June and July, in and near the Songwe valley.

The following notes are based on a small collection of Coccidæ recently received by the Entomological Research Committee from Mr. C. C. Gowdey, the Government Entomologist in Uganda.

The scale [scale here means both the insects and their ovisacs—F. C. W.] contains a small amount of wax which can be separated by solution in boiling alcohol, or better, petrol. From solution in the latter it yields, after recrystallization, a considerable proportion of a hard wax melting at 83°·5 and having a density of 0·970 at 15° C. This is in all probability Cerylcerotate. There is present a mixture of waxes of lower and indefinite meltingpoint.

Leaving Karonga, at the northern end of Lake Nyasa, on July 15th, I reached Katumbi on the Luwumbu River, the chief tributary of the Upper Luangwa, about a week later. I had made this river my objective, as I had already examined, in 1908, a considerable portion of the Luangwa above its junction with the Luwumbu. After following the Luwumbu down to this point, the Luangwa itself was followed for a considerable distance, chiefly on the left bank.

Much attention has recently been devoted to the habits of Glossina palpalis, but G. fusca, which I have had the opportunity of observing and collecting in several localities in Nyasaland, has received little notice; the latter has long been known to be most active in the evening, but further points in its habits have come to my notice, and they appear to be worth recording.

In Prof. Newstead's paper “On Scale Insects from the Uganda Protectorate” (Bull. Entom. Res. Vol. I. pt. 1) is a description and figure of the male larva of Stictococcus dimorphus. This remarkable larva is said to have no mouth parts. It is also unique in differing completely in form and structure from that of the female larva of the same species. Its anal aperture is not only in a different position, but of a different character—having a setiferous ring similar to that of the Dactylopiinæ. Stictococcus is (rightly or wrongly) placed in the subfamily Lecaniinæ.

Closely allied to Ceratitis, MacLeay, and agreeing therewith in thoracic chætotaxy† and, venation : differing in general facies of body, in shape of scutellum, and in that of ovipositor, the first segment of which, instead of being flattened and truncate triangular in shape, is thickened and tubular, resembling that of Urophora.

♀.—Length (3 specimens) 15·6 to 16·5 mm.; width of head 6·25 to 6·5 mm.; width of front at vertex 2·5 mm.; length of wing 14·75 to 15 mm.

The silk derived from the cocoon-masses woven by the larvæ of Anaphe infracta, Wlsm., A. venata, Butl., A. moloneyi, Druce, and others of the same or an allied genus of the family Eupterotidæ, is utilised in the Haussa and Yoruba countries of Northern and Southern Nigeria for the manufacture of yarns, used in the embroidery of Haussa gowns in the former country and, in conjunction with cotton in the latter locality, for the production of the “ sanyan ” cloths.