CEROPLASTES. 17 
CEROPLASTES, Gray. 
1, Ceroplastes fioridensis. 
Ceroplastes floridensis, Comstock, Rep. U. 8S. Dept. Agric. for 1880, p. 331. 
Hab. Mexico: Balantam in Yucatan (Zownsend); Minatitlan, April 25, 1898, on 
orange and mango (Townsend); Cordova, April 29, on mango (Townsend); Paraje 
Nuevo, April 29, on orange (Townsend); Frontera, Febr. 28, 1897, on Ficus laurifolia 
(Townsend); PaNnaMa: outskirts of the city, on mango, akee, guava, and lime-trees 
(Dolby-Tyler). 
2. Ceroplastes cirripediformis. 
Ceroplastes cirripediformis, Comstock, Rep. U. 8. Dept. Agric. for 1880, p. 333. 
Hab. Mexico, 
Specimens from San Rafael, Vera Cruz (Townsend), not seen by me, have been 
referred with doubt to this species. 
3. Ceroplastes mexicanus. 
Ceroplastes mexicanus, Ckll. Bull. 4, Techn. Ser., Div. Ent., U. 8S. Dept. Agric. (1896) p. 34. 
Hab. Mexico: Guaymas, San Luis Potosi and Tehuantepec city (Townsend) ; 
Guanajuato, on Duranta plumieri (Duges). 
4, Ceroplastes irregularis. 
Ceroplastes irregularis, Ckll. Entomologist, 1893, p. 351. 
Hab. Mexico: Montezuma in Chihuahua (Cockerell). 
Also found in New Mexico, and even north to Salida, Colorado (Bethel, specimens 
sent by Gillette). 
5. Ceroplastes cistudiformis. 
Ceroplastes cistudiformis, Ckll. & Twns. Zoe, 1893, p. 104. 
Hab. Mexico: Guanajuato (Dugés); Tampico (Townsend); Morenas, Oct. 18, 1897 
(Koebele, 1569). 
Also found at Clairmont, California, on a pepper-tree (A. J. Cook, in coll. U.S. 
Dept. Agric.). 
6. Ceroplastes roseatus. 
Ceroplastes roseatus, Twus. & Ckll. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 177; Dolby-Tyler, Trans. Ent. 
Soc. Lond. 1899, pp. 277-280, t. 8. 
Hab. Mexico: El Cuyo del Chicosapote, near Frontera (Townsend); Panama 
(Dolby-Tyler). 
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