. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . WMaske&.dd- IXODES EUDYPTIDIS. Maskell.— Note on an Aphidian insect, 17 Observations on the name Cheemes or Keemes. Much confusion has grown round this name, which has been made bydifferent writers to do duty in various distinct directions. Linmeus andFabricius included under it Coccidse, Aphididse, and Psyllidse ; Passerinirestricts it to the Aphididas ; Kaltenbach, Buckton, and others seem toinclude in it Aphididas and Coccidaa ; G-eoffroy, Targioni-Tozzetti, Signoret,and others restrict it to the Coccidas. Now, there is so marked
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . WMaske&.dd- IXODES EUDYPTIDIS. Maskell.— Note on an Aphidian insect, 17 Observations on the name Cheemes or Keemes. Much confusion has grown round this name, which has been made bydifferent writers to do duty in various distinct directions. Linmeus andFabricius included under it Coccidse, Aphididse, and Psyllidse ; Passerinirestricts it to the Aphididas ; Kaltenbach, Buckton, and others seem toinclude in it Aphididas and Coccidaa ; G-eoffroy, Targioni-Tozzetti, Signoret,and others restrict it to the Coccidas. Now, there is so marked a distinction between the families just men-tioned that it seems simply absurd to confound them under one number of characters which can only be well made out under the micro-scope distinguish them completely; but, apart from these, the fact that inthe Coccidaa the females are always, without any exception, apterous, whilstin the Aphididaa the females in certain stages have four wings, is a perfectlysufficient cause for separation. Attempts ha
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