A. M Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



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? Chaff-scale. {Parlatoria Pergandii Comstock, Annual Rep. Dep. 

 Agric. for 1880, p. 327, pi. xi, fig. 4; pi. xx, fig. 5.) Figure 185a. 



Mr. C. V. Riley (Bulletin No. 15, U. S. Dep. Agric., Entomol. 

 Div., 1887) states that this species was introduced into Florida from 

 Bermuda about 1855, but perhaps he had in mind Mytilaspis citri- 

 cola, concerning which the same statement had long before been 

 made by Glover (see note, p. 808), for this species was not described 

 until 1880. I do not know that it has been otherwise recorded, 

 though it may well occur. 



Aspidiotus Mashelll Cockerell ? 



Mr. Geo. A. Bishop, in a recent letter, states that this species 

 infests the orange and other citrus fruits, fig-tree, and Japanese 

 privet {Ligustrum ovalifolium). It was first described as native oi 

 the Hawaiian Islands, and has since been recorded from Mauritius 

 and Brazil (t, Banks). It feeds on Malva and other plants. The 

 Bermuda form may possibly be some other closely related species, 

 perhaps A. aurantii Mask. See Fig. 184, d. 



1866 



Figure 185a. — Chaff-scale (Parlatoria Pergandii); a, female scale; b, male scale; 

 enlarged ; after Comstock. Figure 1866. — San Jose Scale (Aspidiotus 

 perniciosus) ; a, females ; b, males ; c, d, young ; after Comstock. Figure 

 187.— Onion Thrips (Thrips tabaci) ; b, larva, all much enlarged. From 

 Webster's International Dictionary. 



For convenience of comparison I add cuts of several other species 

 of Scale-insects that infest the orange trees in Florida and Califor- 

 nia. Perhaps all or most of them occur in Bermuda. Figs. 184-186. 



Hitherto none of the various small Ichneumon-flies that destroy 

 aphids and scale-insects in N. America and other countries have 

 been found in Bermuda. Like the useful Lady-bugs, they might be 

 introduced with great proflt. 



