SUBFAMILY I. PHANEROPTERIXJE. 



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eastern Nebraska, and south and west to southern Florida, Okla- 

 homa, southwestern Texas, Arizona and Claremont, California. 

 From the west and northwest the published records are few for so 

 widely a distributed species and are mostly under the name M. 

 lauri folium (Linn.). Scudder (1862, 447) gave Massachusetts as 

 one of the localities of his M. affiliatiuii, a synonym of rlwmM- 

 folium, and S. I. Smith (1873, 357) mentions it from Connecticut, 

 but no definite localities were given and no other New England 

 records can be found. It is not mentioned in either of the Iowa 

 lists, nor is a definite locality recorded from Michigan. Garman 

 says it is "common everywhere in Kentucky on black locust and 

 other trees." Lugger records it only from Wiuona, Minn., and 

 Bruner, as occurring only in eastern Nebraska south of the Platte 

 River. From New Jersey south and southwest the records are 

 more numerous, especially those from Georgia and Florida. J. 

 Smith (1910, 187) states that it occurs throughout New Jersey, 

 and R. & H. (1916, 256) give numerous records between there and 

 central Georgia, as do they and other authors from Georgia, south- 

 west to California. At Claremont in the latter State Baker (1905, 

 78) found it common among the orange trees, and one of his speci- 

 mens is at hand. 



The eggs of M. laurifolium are usually glued in double rows on 

 the sides of slender twigs, Avhich have been previously roughened 

 with the jaws and otherwise prepared for a place 

 of deposit. The two rows are contiguous and the 

 eggs of one alternate with those of the other. 

 Those of the same row overlap about one-fourth 

 their length. They are of a grayish brown color, 

 long oval in shape, very flat, and measure 5.5x3 

 mm. They are usually deposited in September, 

 hatch the following May, and the young, in cen- 

 tral Indiana, reach maturity during the first half 

 of August. These eggs have, on a number of occa- 

 sions, been brought to me by persons who found 

 them on their fruit trees, and thought they were 

 the San Jose scale or some other injurious scale 

 insect. 



Of the habits of this species Davis (1887, 5(5), 

 under the name M. retinerrc, says: "It often lays 



r 2 whf|e S d Ka^ e - its e gg s on tlie none y suckle and I once observed 

 did. (After Riiey.) ., female on the 16 tli of September, ovipositing on 



a low tree by the roadside, gradually biting the bark into a ridge 

 along which the eggs were laid tile fashion. The male produces 



