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(41) LecaniuDi ( Saissetia) anthurii, Boisduval ; 1868, var. 



This insect was referred to Mr. Cockerell, who supplies the following 

 remarks : 



"Length 2, breadth i^, height little over y^ mm.; pale reddish- 

 brown to brownish ochreous, broad oval in outline, fairly convex, shiny ; 

 with weak ridges forming an H, as in the olecz group ; these ridges 

 marked, as in Beaumontice, by rows of waxen or glossy patches. Dermal 

 structure as in coffece, and exactly as Signoret figures for atit/nirii. 

 Marginal bristles of two sizes, about 24 and 39 /x. Legs a little larger than 

 coffece ; coxa 150, femur with trochanter 180, tibia 135, tarsus 84, claw 

 20, claw-digitules 30, tarsal digitules 52 /x. Tarsal digitules filiform, with 

 a small knob. Claw strongly curved, its digitules bulbous at base, and 

 with large round knobs at the end. Antennae practically as in coffece ; 

 segments, (i.)39, (2.)42, (3.)54, (4-)42, (S)39. (6-)3o, (7-)24, (8.)36 /x. 

 Formula: 3(24)(i5)867. This is evidently very close to L. coffece, hwX 

 the specimens seem to be adult, and in that case they cannot belong to 

 that species. They very nearly agree with anthurii as described by 

 Signoret, but are half a mm. shorter, and very much flatter ; the tibia 

 also is not twice as long as the tarsus, as it should be in ajithurii. In 

 many respects the insect is very like L. Beaufjiontice, as described by 

 Douglas, but the description is very inadequate. The present insect was 

 found by Mr. King on grass in a, greenhouse, so its native country is 

 uncertain. On the whole, it seems more discreet to leave it as '' antliw-ii, 

 van' than to give a new specific name." (Cockerell, litt., March 23, 

 1899.) Originally found on Anthurium (Ckll. in litt.). 



(42) Pidvinaria innumerabilis, Rathv.; 1854-1869. N. Syn. Aceri- 



corticis, Fitch. 

 Quite frequently found through the State on maples and perhaps on 

 other food plants, and is preyed upon by Hyperaspis signatus and 

 Chilocorus bivulnerus ; an Eiicyrtiis sp., Aphycus sp., and C/ii/oneurus 

 albiconiis, How., have been reared from it. Recorded from Washington, 

 D. C; Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

 Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Colorado, Washington, Utah, Oregon, Ohio, 

 Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, New Mexico, Nebraska, and 

 Western Nevada, on box elder, maple, locust, elm, woodbine, currant, 

 gooseberry, plum, peach, hawthorn, mountain ash, Lombardy poplar, 

 weeping willow, upland willow, swamp willow, flowering currant, osage 

 orange, oak, linden, rose, hackberry, sycamore, spindle tree, beech, and 



