.'^14 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



boiling K. H. O., body turns reddish-brown. After boiling, derm becomes 

 colourless, antenn?e, mouth-parts and legs remaining light brown. 

 Antennae long and slender, each joint with a few long fine hairs. Joint 3 

 longest, next comes joint 2, joints 4 and 5 subequal, joints i and 6 sub- 

 equal, joint 8 shortest. Formula, approximately: 32(45)9(16)78. Legs 

 long and stout, quite hairy. Trochanter with very long bristle. Femur 

 a trifle shorter than tibia. Tarsus about y^ of tibia. Claw long and 

 slender, with tooth. Digitules fine knobbed hairs. Lobes well devel- 

 oped, with a long seta, and two long fine bristles. Anal ring with six 

 stout hairs. On each segment of the ventral surface, thorax, and on the 

 head, there are numerous very long fine hairs, and there are numerous 

 short fine spines and numerous spinnerets with club-shaped tubes scattered 

 over the body. Newly-hatched larvEe orange colour, elongate oval. 

 Antennie 6-jointed, quite stout. Joint 6 longest, twice as long as 4 + 

 5 ; joints i and 2 subequal, joints 4 and 5 subequal. Formula : 

 63(i2)(45). Legs short and stout. Tarsus as long as tibia. Rostral 

 loup extending beyond last coxae. Caudal lobes and sette quite 

 prominent. 



I/al?. — On Stachys bullata. San Francisquito Canon, near May- 

 field, Cal. June 28, 1899. 



Phenacocciis bahice, n. sp. (Plate 7, fig. 5.) 



Adult $ about 4 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, covered with white 

 cottony secretion, with a distinct ridge of cottony tufts running longi- 

 tudinally on the meson and two smaller ridges parallel with it. Each 

 ridge has a large tuft at the cephalic end. Margin fringed with short 

 broad cottony appendages, getting longer towards caudal end. Legs 

 and antennae dark brown. Colour of body is greenish-yellow, with a 

 brown patch on the meson. When boiled in K. H. O., turns crimson at 

 first, then derm becomes colourless, except a row of dark brown patches 

 on the body near and running parallel with the margin. These grow 

 larger caudad. Body is densely covered with round glands and stout 

 conical spines. Anal ring large, with six long stout hairs and numerous 

 stout hairs scattered over area surrounding it. Antennje and legs 

 remain brown. Antennae 9-jointed, long and stout. Joint 3 generally 

 longest, then 5, then 9. Joints i, 2 and 8 generally shortest. All joints 

 quite hairy, and joint 9 quite pointed, with numerous hairs. Formula, 

 approximately: 3.5.9.6.7.4.8.1.2. Legs very long, stout, and thickly 

 covered with very stout hairs. Femur and tibia subequal. Tarsus about 



