no ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Mar., '14 



A New Coccid from Arizona (Hemip.). 

 By T. D. A. COCKERELL, University of Colorado, Boulder, Col. 



Recently Mr. O. C. Bartlett sent me some specimens of a 

 large Coccid collected by Dr. A. W. Morrill in the Verde Val- 

 ley, near Jerome, Arizona. The small piece of the food plant 

 sent is superficially just like Viborquia spinosa (Engelm.) 

 Ckll., but certainly different, as the leaflets are strongly inequi- 

 lateral and do not possess dark gland-dots beneath. The 

 Coccid is a very distinct new species of Monophlebinae. 



Palaeococcus morrilli n. sp. 



Females solitary on small branches ; about 7 mm. long. 5 broad, 

 4.5 high ; globose, tapering posteriorly into a tail, so that the whole 

 shape is pyriform; dark plumbeous, coated with white mealy secre- 

 tion, which does not wholly hide the dark surface; down the middle 

 of the abdomen and at the extreme sides are more or less distinct 

 tufts of secretion. The structure of the antennae, legs, etc., is as 

 usual in the genus; antennae ten-jointed, the joints measuring as 

 follows in microns: (i) a ring, not readily measured, (2) 140, (3) 

 US, (4) 75, (5) 57, (6) 90, (7) 100, (8) 100, (9) 100, (10) 190. 



Larva bright red, with black legs and antennae. Antennae 6- jointed, 

 the joints measuring in microns: (i) 55, (2) 72, (3) 80, (4) 57, (5) 

 57, (6) 170. On the last joint are long hairs, the longest about 400 

 microns. At the caudal end of the abdomen are two hairs about 480 

 microns long, then on ; each side of these a pair about 1,000 microns 

 long, and- anterior to these, along the margin, four curled hairs about 

 480 microns long. 



The species is readily known by its large size and produced 

 tapering abdomen, as well as the 10- jointed antennae. The 

 adult antennae are very much larger than in P. hempeli or P. 

 rosae. Compared with P. townscndi, the antennae are much 

 more slender, with the subapical joints proportionately longer, 

 and the third and fourth joints not nearly so robust. The larva 

 also has more slender antennae than that of townsendi. 



Dr. Skinner in Cuba. 



Dr. Henry Skinner, Editor Emeritus of the NEWS, and Mrs. Skinner 

 have been spending the month of February in Cuba, collecting insects, 

 most of the time as guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Ramsden at Guan- 

 tanamo, in the eastern part of the island. This is Dr. Skinner's first 

 experience in the tropics. 



