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viz., caudolaterals, 9; cephalolaterals, 14; median, 8. Mr. Schaufuss 

 sent me M. pomoriun on Cormis from Saxony long ago. 



(14) Diaspis amygdaii, Tryon. {=^lanatus). This evidently reached 

 California from Japan. Mr. Ehrhorn sends me some on dwarf peach 

 from Japan, in Japanese nursery at San Jose, California. Also a grayish 

 form of the same on^persimmon from Japan, found by Mr. Craw in his 

 quarantine work. The latter form looks different from ordinary amygdaii, 

 but is clearly that species ; it shows caudolateral groups of glands with 

 36 orifices, cephalolaterals, 43 ; median, [5. The grayish appearance is 

 partly due to dirt. Mr. Ehrhorn says it also infests dwarf cherry. 



(15) Auiacaspis bromeiice (Kerner). On pineapple in conservatory 

 at San Jose, California (Edw. M. Ehrhorn). The exuviae are nearly 

 marginal. 



(16) C/iionaspis assimiiis, Mabkell. Sent by Mr. Ehrhorn. It was 

 found by Mr. Craw on a tree from Australia, in the course of his quarantine 

 work. 



(17) Chionaspis querais, Comst. On oaks at Dripping Spring, 

 Organ Mts., N. M., 5,600 ft. (Ckll.). New to New Mexico. 



(18) IscJmaspis fiiiformis, Dougl. Trinidad, West Indies. In 

 extraordinary numbers on Cycas revoiuta. (J. H. Hart.) 



(vii.) Aspidiotus. 



(19) Aspidiotus jiigia/is-regice, Comst., Southern CaHfornia, on prune, 

 (Edw. M. Ehrhorn.) This species is quite generally distributed in Las 

 Cruces and Mesilla, N.M., but here always white (var. a/bus). Two days 

 ago I found it in Mesilla on apple, pear and apricot. Nowhere does it 

 increase like perniciosus, and it is a comparatively harmless species, 

 though anything but desirable in an orchard. 



(20) Aspidiotus piricoia, Del Guercio. This species, lately described 

 as new from Italy, has turned up on plum at San Jose', California, speci- 

 mens having been sent by Mr. Ehrhorn. A mounted specimen is dated 

 March 18, 1892, others 1894; so it has been in California for some time 

 unrecognized. The following description, from Californian examples, is 

 worth giving : — 



? scale i^ mm. diara., flattened, circular, pale gray; with the 

 exuvite covered normally by a thin film of secretion, and then hardly 

 noticeable, but the film very easily rubbed off, when the shiny, orange- 

 brown exuviie are conspicuously seen. 



