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(28) Phcuacocciis yuvco;, Coqiiillett. Found by Professor Towascud in Mexico, on 



lime in S;in Luis Potosi, and ou orange in Guadalajara. 



(29) rhenacocciix iarberi, Cockerell. On orange, etc., representing yucca! in some of 



the West Indiaii islands. It may be only a form of yticcw. 



(30) liaciylopins citri, Risso, syn. (Jestructor, Comstock. 



(ol) I>actyloj>hi)i adonidum, IJuuieus, syus. longispinns, Targioni-Tozzetti, Jontji fills, 

 Comstock. For a full account of this and the last, see Berlese, Kevista di 

 Patologia Vegetale, lS!t3. 



(32} Daciylopius vaxtator, Maskell. On Citrus in Sandwich Islands. (Tr. N. Z. Inst., 

 XXYII, p. 65.) A letter from Mr. J. Marsden, quoted by Mr. Craw in Pacilic 

 Rural Press, December 8, 1894, p. 358, probably refers to the same insect; but 

 it is the restated that Mr. Maskell ideutiiied it as 1). albizziw, while Doctor 

 Riley said it was lihizoeoccus Cmisprinted EUjgococcus). 



(33) Iceryii pnrchasi, Maskell. Too well known as a pest of Citrus trees. 



(34) Icerya, sp. On orange, Tokyo, Japan (Takaliasbi). Presumably new, ]>ut I 



have only seen immature cxami)les. 



(35) Coccus diacopeis, Anderson, is a problematical s2>ecies found on Citrus auran- 



tium (syn. sinensis). 



(36) Diaspis colvei in Spain. 



SIMARUBE.^. 



The curious spiny slirnb or small tree, Molacantlia emnri/i, Gray, is 

 iu Arizona the food plant of Diaspis tourney^ Cockerell. Bentham 

 and Hooker cite the plant as from New Mexico' but it docs not appear 

 to occur in that Territory. It was described fromMexico. 



BURSERACE.^. 



A small tropical order. Gariuja pinnattt is in India a food ])laiit 

 of Tdchardia lacca, Kerr. Bursera gumniifera in Antigua produces 

 Ctroplastes ceriferus, Anderson. 



MELIACE.^. 



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Bysoxylum (syn. Dysoxylon) is a rather large genus of the Malay 

 Archipelago, Australia, l!Te\v Zealand, and New Caledonia. The New 

 Zealand I), spectabile, J. 1). Hooker, is cited by Maskell as a food jdant 

 of Aspidiotus dysoxyli, Maskell, MytUaspis pyriformis., Maskell, and 

 ('Monasph dysoxyli, Maskell. 



The so-called China tree, Melia azcdar<tch, a native of the Hinui- 

 layan region, is connnonly cultivated in the United States, especially 

 in the arid region. It is almost free from the attacks of insects in this 

 country, but more than once it has been found infested by Aspidlotus 

 nerii, Bouche. 



AQUIFOLIACE./E. 



A small order, best known l)y the holly. This shrub has long been 

 known as a food plant of Lccaninm hespcrldiun, Linna'us, to which 

 Ccxpullett, from his Californian experience, adds 7>. ohxv, Bernard, and 



1 Genera Plantarum I, p. 310. 



