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12. Ceroplastes albolineatus. 
Ceroplastes albolineatus, Ckll. Entom. News, 1894, p. 157. 
Hab. Mexico: Cuautla, May 31, 1897, on Fuchsia (Koebele: Div. Ent. 7612). 
The two lateral white stripes at once separate this pink species from C. roseatus. 
The fourth antennal segment was long in these specimens, as in the original types. 
LICHTENSTA, Sign. 
1. Lichtensia lutea. 
Pulvinaria lutea, Ckll. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., July 1893, p. 51. 
Hab. Mexico: Colima, on wild fig (Dr. Palmer: coll. Div. Ent., U. 8. Dept. Agric. 
5229); Vera Cruz (Cockerell). 
2. Lichtensia crescentiz. 
Lichtensia crescentie, Ckll. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1898, p. 435. 
Hab. Mexico: Frontera (Townsend). Also a slight variety on “achote,” El Cuyo 
del Chico Sapote, Tabasco, June 18, 1897 (Townsend: Div. Ent. 7842). 
3. Lichtensia mimose. 
Lichtensia mimose, Twns. & Ckll. Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1898, p. 175. 
Hab. Mexico: Las Minas, near Frontera (Townsend). 
PULVINARIA, Targ.-Tozz. 
1. Pulvinaria simulans. 
Pulvinaria simulans, Ckll. Journ. Trinidad Field-Nat. Club, 1894, p. 310. 
Hab. Mexico: Monterey in Nuevo Leon (Townsend). 
Specimens from Tehuantepec city, doubtfully referred to P. camellicola, but not seen 
by me, are probably P. simulans. They were collected by Townsend. 
9. Pulvinaria parvula, CkIl., sp. n. 
@. Seale about 3 millim. long, with ovisac 54 millim. Scale dark reddish-brown ; ovisac white, firm, closely 
woven, convex in a transverse direction, not ribbed. Immature female ferruginous, having much the shape 
of Lecanium hesperidum. | 
9. Adult. Marginal spines simple, fairly large, numerous, distance from one to the next about equal to the 
length of one; length of a spine 33. Skin after boiling colourless and transparent. Coxa 331 p; 
femur and trochanter 397 ; tibia 232; tarsus 108; claw 33; tarsal digitules filiform, 66 1; claw-digitules 
expanded to a large knob. Antenne 9-segmented, segments measuring thus in «:—(1) 50, (2) 50, 
(8) 116, (4) 83, (5) 50, (6) 83, (7) 48, (8) 33, (9) 50. 
Hab. Mexico: Cuautla, July 2, 1897, on Mimosa, sp. (Koebele, 1729: Div. Ent. 
7921). 
Readily known by its small size and 9-segmented antenne. 
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