The following species taken in London on imported bananas has been submitted recently for identification and has proved to be a new species of Dysmicoccus Ferris.

On checking some unidentified material in the British Museum (Natural History), the same species has come to light on imported bananas collected in London earlier. As some of these were labelled “from Canary bananas”, a check was made of all the material in the British Museum (N. H.) of mealybugs from the Canary Islands and it is evident that the species is widespread there but has been misidentified as Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuw.). Furthermore, it has been misidentified as this species on other occasions on imported bananas in England and Egypt and although some of the preparations concerned are labelled as from Canary bananas, it is not possible to determine whether all have come from this source.