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(3) Pulviuaria vitis, Liuuii'tis. In Europe. 



(4) Piilv'uiaria innumirabilis, Ratlivon. In America, on l)()th wild and cnltivated 



vines. 



(5) Lecanium oIe(c, Benuird. See Insect Life, 1893, p. KiO. 



(6) f A'cani II m pniinosniii, Coi{iu\h'tt. Kiley, cited by Co<|iullett, Insect liife. III, p. 384. 



(7) Lccani itm hespcridiim, Liuna'ua. Coiiuillett, Bull. 26, Div.Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric., 



p. 2(). 



(8) Lecmihim dcpressiim, Targioni-Tozzetti. Maskell, Tr. N. Z. Inst., XXV, p. 220. 



Maskell records it as on vine; I infer that he means gra|>evine. 



(9) lAcaiiiiim, sp. Some forms ot Eiilccaiiiiim, not yet suiticiently studied, have been 



found; Cockerel!, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 1893, p. 52; Maskell, Tr. N. Z, 

 Inst., XXIV, p. 22. 



(10) .if<i)iiHoti(s intis, Signoret. On grapes in the Mediterranean region. 



(11) AspidiotHS uviv, Comstock. In the United States, and rarely in .Jamaica. 



(12) Aspldiotnsarticulatus,'Mov^gii\\. On ri<(s ri *(//tr« in Nevis; Journ. Inst. Jamaica, 



1893, p. 255. 



(13) Asjndiotus auraKtii, Maskell. Co(|uillett, Bull. 26, Div. Ent., U. S. JJept. Agric, 



p. 15. 



(14) Chionaspls minor, Maskell. Insect Life, V, j). 246. 



(15) lHa.sj>is (Hin/udali, Tryon (syn. hiitdtuf^). Townsend, .Journ. Inst. .Jamaica, 



1893, pp. 283, 378. 



(16) Coccus microogcues, Anderson, is a problenlatical species from ]"ilh vinifcra. 



There should also be added to the VlHx coccids a new species, Chio- 

 naspls vitis, Green, lound by Mr. E. E. Green in Ceylon. 



SAPINDACEvE. 



A large order, consisting almost entirely of trees. In Europe the 

 horse-chestnut, ^Escnlus lilppocastanion, is the food plant of Aspkllotus 

 hippocastani, Signoret, Lecanium (cscidi, Jvoelar, and Phenacoceus wscnli, 

 Signoret. In Palo Alto, Californiai, Asjndiotus cvsculi. W. G. Johnson, 

 is found on ^J^sculns ci(lifor)iica, Nuttall. 



Theakee, Cupaniaov Blujliia sapi(l<(,i^ cultivated in Jamaica, where it 

 affords food to Aster olccanium piistulans, Cockerell, Piilvinaria cupanice, 

 Cockerell, Aspldiotus articulatus, Morgan, and A. personutus, Comstock. 

 Another tree cultivated in Jamaica is the geuip, MtUeocca Mjuga, a 

 native of tropical America. On it are found Geroplastes Jioridensis, 

 Comstock, Aspidiotus personatuH, Comstock, and A. articHlutus, Morgan. 

 l:^chleichcra trijuga is cited by Watt as a food plant of Tavhardia lacca, 

 Kerr. Is not this the same as the Melicocca !■ Another food plant of 

 T. lacca in India is NeplieUum lit-ehi, Camb., a native of China. 



The box elder, Negundo aceroides, or more properly Acer nvgundo, is 

 attacked by Pidvinaria i)inu)iicrahilis, Kathvon, Lecanium {Eulecauinm) 

 sp., and Aspldiotus ancylus, Putnam. The Lecanium is a species similar 

 to L. quercifex, Fitch, but it has not been sufficiently studied. The fol- 

 lowing species of Acer are recorded as host plants of coccids, in addi- 

 tion to the box elder: 



(1) Acer campestre, Liunams. European. AcanthococcuH (more properly Eriococcus) 



acvris. Signoret. 



(2) Acer pseudo2>lata)ins, Li'muivna. South European and Oriental. Chionaspis acrris, 



Signoret, Lecainain avrris, Schrank, and I'lieiiuvocciin aceris, Signoret, all in 

 Europe. 



