May, '02] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



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fe\v spines, digitules ou tarsus long, thread-like, knobbed, 

 digitules on claw short and stout, knobbed: posterior margin 

 of the body with two long hairs and two spines at the base of 

 each hair ; anal ring with four spiny-hairs. 



Habitat. Found by the writer on Distichlh uiaritiina in salt 

 marsh near Palo Alto, California, Dec. 20, 1901. The female 

 lives under the sheathing base of the host plant. 



Type in the Entomological Collection of Leland Stanford, Jr 

 University. 



Three species of the genus /'- < 



dolccaiii nut have been heretofore r , \7 



known, and they are recorded from 

 the following localities : 



c 



Flu. I. Pseudolecanium disticlium. 



a. Ventral aspect of female 



b. Antennae of the same. 



c. A spiracle of the same 



d. Ventral aspect of the last seg- 



ment of the same. 



KM., 2. .''.\,-ii(iolccii>iiuin liisticliutn. 

 ,'. Dorsal as|.. ( t nt the last seg- 

 ment of female. 



f. Ventral aspect of the fust larval 



stage 



g. Antenna of the same. 

 /;. Leg nt the same. 



/. Posterior abdominal segments oi 



the same. 



1. Pseudolecanium tokionis Ckll. 



Tokyo, Gifu in Japan ; and Stanford I'lmvrsity campus, 

 California. 



2. Pseudolecanium californicum Khr. 



Mountain View, California; Manhattan and St. George, 

 Kansas. 



