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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ASPIDIOTUS FERNALDI (Ckix.), Sub-sp. COCKERELLI, 



SuB-sp. Nov. 



BY PERCY J. PARROTT, MANHATTAN, KANSAS. 



$ scale nearly circular, somewhat flattened, little convex, roughibh, 

 dark gray above bark, reddish-brown below bark, 2 min. diameter; exuviae 

 little exposed, often concealed by whitish secretion, orange, placed to one 

 side of centre ; ventral scale, delicate and white ; old scales dark brown, 

 often almost black. Scales are thickly massed. 



$ oval, white, marked with irregular light yellow spots ; first and 

 second lobes, and margin of last segment, yellowish. 



Five groups of ventral glands ; median 2 to 5, ceplialolaterals 



II to 18, caudolaterals 7 to iS. 

 Two pairs of well-developed lobes ; the mesal somewhat 

 oblique, with one notch on lateral margin ; the second pair 

 somewhat angular and inclined to mesal lobes, notched on 

 margin : dark, unequal processes mesal of mesal lobes and 

 sides of incisions, those mesal of first incision large and 

 conspicuous (Fig. 9.) 



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 Fig. 9. — Characters of female. (Original.) 



One small spine on lateral of mesal lobes, two conspicuous ones 

 on margin of 2nd pair of lobes and lateral of 2nd pair of 

 incisions, respectively. 



Plates simple, often undiscernible ; when present, one or two 

 caudad of each incision. 



