Subcylindrical, brilliant metallic green to coppery green, with legs and three last ventral segments fulvous, and a large fulvous spot on vertex of head.

The first record of red scale in Kenya Colony in the file of the Entomological Laboratory is for 1914, on citrus. It is known that the scale has been brought into the country in at least one consignment of citrus, which, being accompanied by a certificate from the country of origin that the plants were free from insect pests, was allowed to enter the country under the Plant Import Regulations then in force, without being inspected. It seems, therefore, likely that red scale is not indigenous to the country, but an introduced pest.

The following few notes are intended to supplement the excellent account of the life-history and habits of this insect already published by Mr. P. A. Buxton (Bull. Ent. Res. xi, pp. 181–186). Working as an Assistant Entomologist under the Agricultural Directorate at Baghdad, during the year 1919–1920, I had a few opportunities of observing this pest in Mesopotamia. I met with it in small numbers at Museyib on the Euphrates in June 1920, and at Karradah (a suburb of Baghdad) from June to the middle of September of the same year. It is evidently sporadic in its distribution; for I did not find it in gardens at Jadriyah, situated only three miles west of Karradah, nor did I notice it in any of the gardens at Hillah, which is situated on the Euphrates, about 25 miles south of Museyib.

The mosquito, Psorophora posticata, Wied. (Janthinosoma musica, Say), commonly deposits its eggs in the rain-water that accumulates in the broken cacao pods strewn in heaps about the cool shady parts of cacao fields.