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to the generic position of the species. 1 am inclined to think 

 that it really represents a new genus, but alate specimens will be 

 necessary to determine this definitely, and I am referring it 

 tentatively to Hamainelistes. The discovery of the remaining 

 stages may not soon occur, and it seems best to present such 

 information as is available. 



Hamamelistes (?) agrifoliae n. sp. Coccidiform generation (Plati 

 VI). 



Habit. Occurring on the small twigs and under side of the leaves of 

 the host and presenting the appearance of the first stage larva of some 

 scale insect. 



First stage (Fig. C). Length .35 mm. General color pale yellow 

 the eyes black and the appendages dusky. Margins of the body with 

 a series of small, inconspicuous wax processes and the dorsum with a 

 few similar processes. 



Antennae (Fig. D) well developed, four-segmented, the third and 

 fourth segments coarsely imbricated subequal and nearly as long as 

 the first and second segments together. Legs (Fig. H) strongly de- 

 veloped, the tarsi two-segmented, without digitules. Lateral margins 

 of the body with as many as twenty quite large pores and the dorsum 

 with four median pairs of such pores in the thoracic region. Beak 

 three-segmented. Cauda not developed. Cornicles lacking. Abdominal 

 spiracles lacking. 



Second stage (Fig. B). Length .42 mm. Color as in first stage. An 

 tennae reduced to mere unsegmented tubercles. Legs (Figs. F, G) 

 relatively and actually smaller than in the preceding stage, the first two 

 pairs with the tarsi reduced to the merest vestiges, the third with the 

 tarsus distinct but one-segmented, the claws lacking on all. Pores ar- 

 ranged as in the preceding stage but those of the marginal series more 

 numerous. Beak three-segmented. Cauda not developed. Cornicles 

 lacking. Abdominal spiracles lacking. 



Third stage (Fig. A). Length .6 mm. At maturity quite heavily 

 chitinized and with the venter greatly (and usually irregularly) swollen, 

 the legs appearing as if rising from the dorsum and projecting uselessly 

 above. Secretions lacking or at the most very scanty. Dorsal region 

 composed chiefly of the head and thorax and marked off by very dis- 

 tinct sutures into definite areas. Head and pronotum marked off by a 

 transverse suture which curves behind the anterior spiracles, the lateral 

 areas from each antenna to the corresponding spiracle being strongly 

 and finely reticulate. Mesonotum much elongate, divided by longitudinal 

 sutures into three plates, the median plate being as broad as the other 

 two together. Metanotum divided in similar fashion but scarcely more 

 than one-third as long as tin- mesonotum. Behind the metanotum i^ 

 a single undivided plate which conceals the catula. The head and 



