COCCID.K. 



lice, when the slit on the upper side of the leaf, through which 

 the mother plant-louse built up the gall early in the spring, 

 gapes open and allows 

 the insects to escape 

 into the open air." 

 (American Entomolo- 

 gist, p. 10.) 



The Editors of the 

 v American Entomolo- 

 gist" describe and fig- 

 ure the Apple root 

 plant-louse. Eriownini 

 (Pemphigus) pyri of 

 Fitch (Fig. f-_>r, ; a.the 

 gall : /;, larva : c, fe- 

 male ; rf, leg ; <>, beak ; 



/, antenna of female ; Fig. :>-2i. 



r/, of larva), which occurs sometimes in great abundance, form- 

 ing, in October, galls like potatoes, and two to three inches in 

 diameter, on the roots of apple trees, just beneath the surface 

 of the ground. 



The European 

 Chennes (Pemphi- 

 gus) abietis has two 

 sorts of females, 

 and is parthenogen- 

 ous, according to 

 Leuckart. 



COCCID.E Fallen. 

 The Bark-lice have 

 six or more joints 

 to the antenniie ; the 

 tarsi are two-jointed, the beak wanting in the males, in which 

 the hind wings are usually wanting, while the scales made by 

 the females are usually flattened, scale-like, or rounded hemi- 

 spherical. The wingless, scale-like, adult females, by a retro- 

 grade development, in which the legs and rings of the body 

 become aborted, remind us of the Barnacles and allies among 



