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SOU. The Sour Sop, Anona muricata Liniitieiis, is a small tree, native of 

 the West Indies; on it are found Lecaiiium hemispJuvyicnm, Tarjiioni- 

 Toz/etti, and CeroplaHics <lcnudatus.^ Cockerell. A)i(>uacheruiiolia, Miller 

 (syn. tripetala), is also neotropical, but in Fiji it supports Lecanium 

 cliirimolia', Maskell, which, however, is now considered a synonym of 

 tlie wide-spread L. longxltoii. 



Tlie lancewood of Jamaica [Bocaiicn) is the host phiTit of (^croplasies 

 jtinxdcnisis, White. 



MEN I SPERM ACE.^. 



A hirjie order of tropical climbiuj;- plants. Thiospora (olim Meni- 

 sjx'rmiim) eordifoUa is recorded as supporting the unrecognizable Coccus 

 oixjeiics, Anderson, in India. 



BERBERIDE.^. 



The palfearctic Berheris vfilr/dris is the food plant of Lecanium herhcr- 

 idis, Schrank. 



CRUCIFER.^. 



A boreal species, Arabis stricUi, produces xVstcrolecanivm (irHhidis^ 

 Lichtenstein. 



CISTINE.^. 

 Lecaniodiaspis aardon., Targioni-Tozzetti, is found upon CixtKs. 



VIOLACEvE. 



Cultivated violets in ,Iamaica are infested by Dactylopius xnrgatus^ 

 Cockerell, and Orthczia iiisignis, Douglas. In jSTew Zealand Mclicijfii.s 

 ramiflonis, Forster, i)roduces GhionaHpis dtisoxyH., Maskell-, and Jli/nien- 

 (oilhcra crassifoUa, Hooker, is the food of Ctcnoehifon ht/moKoitherw, 

 Maskell; Diaspis santali, Maslcell, occurs on Meliojtus. 



PITTOSPORE.^, 



Pittospormn is a comparatively large genus of small trees and shrubs, 

 witli often fragrant flowers. Maskell records FioHnia asteJia; Maskell, 

 on the Xew Zealand P. tenuifoliumj Gaertner; and Eriococcus para- 

 do.riis, Maskell, and FarJaioria pittosporl, Maskell, on the Australian 

 /*. )(ndtil((tiim, Ventenat. He also records frotn Fittosporum, species 

 not stated, Ctcnoehifon perforatus^ Maskell, C. viridis, Maskell, and 

 I><ict!lloj)ii(s (/Jducns, Maskell. In cultivation in this country the species 

 of rittospornni seem rather subject to the attacks of exogenetic coccids; 

 Cixiuillett mentions fceri/d purcJuim, Maskell, and Lecanium hcspcrldum^ 

 Linna'us. 



Liursaria consists apparently of only two sjiecies, one in Australia, 

 the other in the Philippine Ishinds. The former, B. .spinosa, is infested 

 by EHococcus eucalypti^ Maskell, and E. teppcri, Maskell. 



