28 - HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
DIASPIS, Costa. 
1. Diaspis calyptroides. 
Diaspis calyptroides, Costa, Faun, Nap., Emitt. Omott. p. 20 (1827). 
Hab. Mexico: Vera Cruz, on a succulent spiny shrub called “flor de Tampico,” 
April 28, 1898 (Zownsend); Vera Cruz, on a plant called “siempre viva,” April 28 
(Zownsend) ; also from an unknown locality in Mexico, 1897 (Koebele). 
Var. opuntiz. 
Diaspis cacti, var. opuntiea, Ckll. Journ. Inst. Jamaica, 1893, p. 256. 
Hab. Mexico: Xcolak in Yucatan (Townsend). 
Described from Jamaica. 
2. Diaspis persimilis. 
Diaspis persimilis, Ckll. Canad. Entom. 1897, p. 267. 
Hab. Mexico: Laguna, Carmen I. (Townsend). 
3. Diaspis pentagona. 
Diaspis pentagona, Targ.-Tozz. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. 1887, p. 185. 
Diaspis amygdali, Tryon, Rep. Ins. and Fungus Pests, 1889, p. 89. 
Hab. Panama, on Capsicum (D. G. Fairchild, 1899). 
4, Diaspis phoradendri. | 
Diaspis pharadendri, Ckll. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., June 1898, p, 437. 
Hab. Mexico: Cuautla (Koebele). 
5. Diaspis baccharidis. 
Diaspis baccharidis, Twns. & Ckll, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 1898, p- 179. 
Hab. Muxico: Amecameca (Koebele). 
6. Diaspis townsendi, Ckll., sp. n. 
Q . Scale dirty white to snow-white, max. diam, 13 millim., inclined to be more or less oval; exuvie rather 
dark reddish-brown, varying to yellowish, placed to one side of the centre. 
Q. Five groups of circumgenital glands, median of 10, anterior laterals about 20, posterior laterals 9. Median 
lobes wide apart, strongly diverging, the long rounded inner edge minutely serrate or crenate, the apex 
projecting beyond the margin. Anal orifice decidedly posterior to posterior lateral glands. Other 
- characters of female almost as in Aulacaspis bromelic. 
3. Scale with only one keel, and that feeble; in some specimens woolly, resembling a Dactylopiid male pupa. 
Hab. Mzxitco: Aguas Calientes, May 1, 1898, on bark of Prosopis ( Townsend); 
Leon in Guanajuato, May 1, 1898, on Prosopis (Townsend); Silao, May 1, 1898, on 
Prosopis (Townsend); Santa Barbara in Jalisco, May 1, 1898, on Prosopis (Townsend). 
