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knobbed digitules. Tarsal digitules with very fine, long, knobbed hairs. 

 Antennae 7-jointed, formula : 43 (12) 7 (56). Joint 4 very little longer 

 than 3. Joint, i, 2, 4, 6 each with a hair ; joint 7 with several hairs. 



({ scale glassy white with median ridge, about 1)2 mm. long. 



(J body dark red-brown, legs and antennjw light brown. Wings 

 extend y^ beyond body, colour iridescent. Thorax with two elevated 

 ridges much darker than body. Antennae very hairy. 



Hab. — On Qiiercus sp., in the mountains, near Mountain View, Cal. 



Lecajiium Crawii, n. sp. 



? scales not crowding each other; hemispherical, about 3 mm. long, 

 2 mm. broad and \}4, nim. high, oval, shiny, brown, getting darker with 

 age. Margin generally lighter than dorsum. 



V before gestation light brown, shiny. Derm, by transmitted light, 

 brown, with numerous oval gland orifices. Marginal hairs very short and 

 slender. Lateral incisions each with three stout but not long spines. 

 Antennse 7-jointed, 3 longest, twice as long as 4. Joints 5 and 6 very 

 short. Joints i and 2 about equal. Formula : 347 (12) 56. Anal plates 

 broad but not very large. Anogenital ring with six moderately slender 

 hairs. Legs quite stout. Coxa and femur with stout hair. Femur very 

 little longer than tibia. Tibia and tarsus about equally long. Claw stout 

 and curved. Tarsal digitules moderately stout, knobbed hairs. Digitules 

 of claw not stout, a little longer than claw, more or less club-shaped. 



Larva light yellow, with distinct ridge on dorsum dividing scale 

 lengthwise. Oval, about twice as long as broad. Rostral loop extending 

 to third pair of legs. 



Hab.- — On Acer macrophyllum, in the mountains, near Mountain 

 View, Cal. 



Comys ftcsca was reared from this species. 



LecanitifH ventrale^ n. sp. 



$ scale about 43^ mm. long, 3 mm. broad, i mm. high. Oval 

 when seen from above. Soft texture, very much like L. Jiesperiduin ; light 

 brown, not very convex, and a dark brown border near margin. Dorsum 

 pitted and margin moderately wrinkled, an indistinct mesial ridge. 



? colour greenish-yellow, with a brown longitudinal line on the 

 dorsum, also two brown lines forming a double cross with the dorsal line, 

 more or less wrinkled and pitted. Ventral view shows the abdomen 



