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That species is therefore the type of the genus. That Serville 

 misidentified Fabricius' species does not alter this fact ac- 

 cording to sound nomenclatural reasoning. Thus Thliboscelns 

 falls as a synonym of Ptcrophylla Kirby & Spence, both gen- 

 era being based upon the same species. The Brazilian insect 

 wrongly considered as the camellifoUa by Serville without a 

 name as a mere identification is not to be perpetuated as a 

 distinct species, though Kirby, p. 345, has followed Brunner, 

 Monogr. Pseudoph., p. 148, in doing so in this case. I pro- 

 pose the specific name brasiliensis for this insect and refer 

 both it and the Cyrtophyllus crepitans of Redtenbacher to the 

 genus Pterophylla, considering neither generically distinct 

 from the other members of that genus. 



The Male of the Black Scale (Saissetia oleae Bern.) 



(Hemip.). 



BY H. J. QUAYLE, Berkeley, Cal. 



While the black scale (Saissetia oleae Bern.) is very widely 

 distributed over the world, little has been known and practi- 

 cally nothing published about the male. It was first described 

 by Dr. B. W. Griffith, of Los Angeles, in 1893. It was then 

 said to be limited to a small area in the vicinity of Los An- 

 geles, California. During the past year or two we have taken 

 it at various places in the citrus belt from Santa Barbara to 

 San Diego. It seemed to be especially abundant during the 

 season of 1909. In places where it occurred that year, it 

 was not nearly so abundant in the previous year or the year 

 following. As many as ninety-seven puparia, from all of 

 which males had emerged, have been seen on a single orange 

 leaf. The males have been taken from the leaves of orange, 

 oleander, pepper and olive. They emerged during the months 

 of June, July, August, September, October, November, Decem- 

 ber, January and possibly other months, though not yet observ- 

 ed. 



The Second Stage Male. Up to the time of the first moult 

 there is no difference between the sexes. After the first moult 



