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A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



? Lecanium nigrum Nieter. 



According to Mr. G. A. Bishop this scale has been observed in 

 Bermuda on oleander and hibiscus. It was originally described 

 from Ceylon on coffee trees, but has since been recorded in several 

 other tropical countries, among them Jamaica and Porto Rico, 

 and on various plants, as Mr. Nathan Banks informs me. 



? Ceroplastes Florldensis Com. Figure 180. 



A scale, which may be this species, occurs on the avocado pear, 

 loquat, tamarisk, etc. 



Purple Scale. (Mytilaspis citricola Pack.; Comstock, Ann. Report 

 Dep. of Agriculture for 1880, p. 321, pi. vii, fig. 1; xx, fig. 3; 

 xviii, fig. 3. 



Figures 182-1826, ct, b, c; 184, b. Plate XCVI ; Figures 4, 5, 6, a, a. 



This species, which has long been recognized as occurring in 

 Bermuda,* appears to be at present the most abundant and most 



Figure 182. — a, b, females of Purple Scale (Mytilaspis citricola), on twig of 

 orange tree ; d, free young ; c, white males of Chionaspis citri ; e, female 

 of the latter ; x^.^. Phot, by A. H. V., Aug., 1902, from life. 



destructive species on the orange and lemon trees, which it rapidly 

 kills. Perhaps it was the species chiefly instrumental in the former 

 destruction of the orange trees. See pp. 526, 635. 



Miss Victoria Hay ward recently (Aug. 26) sent me by mail a 

 number of branches and leaves of the orange, some of which were 

 almost completely covered by the living adult and young scales, 

 among and over which great numbers of the newly hatched young 



* Glover, Rep. Dep. Agric. for 1856, p. 119, says that it was imported into 

 Jacksonville, Fla. in 1855 on lemons from Bermuda. Mr. Saunders (Insects 

 Injurious to Fruit, p. 391) also states that this species is supposed to have been 

 brought to Florida from Bermuda on lemon plants. 



