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$ scale. White, waxy, oval; yellow exubrium nearer the anterior end. 

 These are usually found grouped about the glands that the leaf bears at 

 each end of its veins. 



Habitat. On leaves of sweet-gum tree, or bilsted (Liquidam- 

 bar styracijlud]. Mr. Bridwell tells me that Professor Scott 

 found it also on twigs. 



Atlanta, Ga., W. M. Scott, coll., July, 1902. 



Washington, D. C., Jacob Kotinsky, coll., Oct. 12, 1902. 



At first glance the mounted 9 looks very much like Aspidiotus 

 rapax Comst., but its smaller size (about ^) immediately separates 

 it from that species. Careful study of the plates will also show 

 marked differences. I placed it in this genus owing to its gall- 

 producing propensities, a characteristic of C. occultus Green, 

 from Ceylon, on Gruvia orientalis, upon which Prof. Cockerell 

 based this subgenus of Aspidiotus, later raised to the rank of a 

 genus. This genus, besides the species above described and the 

 generic type, now includes in addition C. riibsaameni Ckll., 

 upon Codiceum from Bismarck Archipelago, and, as Prof. 

 Cockerell kindly informs me in litt.^ " C. bornmulleri Rubs, 

 from Madeira, on Globular ia salicina (Marcillia, I, 1902, p. 

 62)." 



Prof. CockerelPs remarks in litt. with reference to my species 

 are too interesting to be omitted. He says : u Cryptophyllaspis 

 is a gall-making derivative of the type of Aspidiotus cyanophylli, 

 or, more broadly speaking, of Diaspidiotus, Your description 

 does not seem to contradict this view, except that the anal orifice 

 is perhaps too large, and the single pair of lobes is peculiar. 

 These last characters suggest ffemiberlesia, and I suspect that 

 you have in reality a gall-making Hemiberlesia. In that case, 

 your species cannot be a Cryptophyllaspis, however much it 

 resembles one. * * * (See my remarks in Ann. Mag. Nat. 

 Hist., July, 1902, pp. 40-41)." 



I am sorry not to have seen the description of Rubsaamen's 

 species in order to see what relation it bears to the above. I may 

 add in this connection that the species herein described is para 

 sitized, though I have not bred the parasite as yet. 



NOVEMBER 6, 1902. 



The iy2d regular meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington was held at the residence of Mr. O. Heidemann, 700 

 Newark street, Petworth. Dr. Dyar presided, and Messrs. Sher 

 man, Hopkins, Busck, Gill, Kotinsky, Barber, Ash mead, Heide 

 mann and Currie, members, and Mr. J. L. Webb, visitor, were 



