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rather slow about it the under portion of the body, full of 

 of young life, while growing rapidly, will be so large in a short 

 time that it is impossible to get through the opening and the 

 moth falls a victim. Illustration No. i shows this plainly. 

 The cocoons in the illustration are stripped of the outer cover- 

 ing so as to show the amount of silk at opening end in a plain 

 manner. No. 2, 6". cynthia, before emerging; No. 3 promcthca 

 and No. 4 cecropia. 



A New Coccid from California. 



BY S. I. KTJWANA, Stanford University, Cal. 



Pseudolecanium disticlium n. sp. 



Adult female : Length varying from 3 to 4 mm., width i to 

 i.i mm.; ellipsoidal in form, usually flat; pinkish brown in 

 color, shiny, the posterior segment darker color ; thinly coated 

 with white cottony wax. 



Boiled in K OH, the female becomes transparent, with the 

 exception of the mouth parts, antennae and the posterior seg- 

 ment, which are golden brown ; mouth parts well chitinized, 

 rostral loop long; antennae short, conical, consisting of two 

 segments, subequal in the length, .41 mm. long, the terminal 

 segment bearing six or more hairs ; the two pairs of spiracles 

 are large and prominent ; a large number of glands varying in 

 size, all over the body, which are more numerous around the 

 spiracles ; the posterior segment strongly chitinized ; the pos- 

 terior margin of the body with no cleft, and bearing four spines; 

 anal ring large, without hairs. 



First Larval Stage : Length .5 mm., width .2 mm.; pale 

 pink in color ; elongate ellipsoidal in form ; segments very dis- 

 tinct ; sides nearly parallel, with no capitate spines on the 

 margin of the body ; eyes red ; mouth parts very large ; an- 

 tennae close to each other, each consisting of six segments, and 

 about .12 mm. long, segment 6 longer than 4 and 5 together, 

 segment 4 shortest, formula, 6, i, 2, 3 (4, 5); the three pairs 

 of legs are subequal, coxa as wide as long, trochanter large, 

 bearing a single long hair, femur large, convex on the outer 

 margin, tibia and tarsus about equal in length, each bearing a 



