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LAURINACE^^. 



From the cmn-phor tree (Cinnamomum camphora } CoqmWett records 

 As2)iilioii(S((urantii, Maskell. Ftih-inariapyriformis^ Cockerell, is Ibuiul 

 on ciuuamoii.' From Fersea horhon'w (syn. caroUnensis) Comstockreconls 

 Aspidiotus persexv, Conistock, and A. parlatorioides, Com stock— the 

 latter being really a Pscudoparhdorhi. He also reports Ceroplmtes 

 JiondensiSy Comstock, from the same tree. From Persea persea I have 

 recorded Aspidiotus aytieulatus. Morgan, and A.personatus^ Comstock.^ 

 Lecanium lintneri, Cockerell and Bennett, is found on sassafras. Aspi- 

 diotus rapax, Comstock, occurs on Umhellularia californica. On Laurus 

 tiobilis, Linmvus, of the :\rediterranean region, are Aonidia lauri, Bouche, 

 Lecanium lauri, Boisdnval, and Boisduvalia lauri, as recorded by Sig- 

 noret. Maskell records two other species from L. nobilis, namely, 

 Aspidiotus aurantii,Mai>]s.e\\, und Lecanium tessellatum, Signoret.'^ He 

 also reports L. hesperidum, Linncvus, from laurel. Dactylopius indicus, 

 Signoret, is from Laurus indicus, Linnaeus, but the plant is more properly 

 called Persea indica. 



PROTEACE^^. 



Coquillett has reported Lecanium <dea', Bernard, from Grevillea 

 robxista, A. Cunningham, a native of Australia. He records Aspidiotus 

 rapa.r, Comstock, from Leucadendron arf/enteum, Eobert Brown. From 

 Halea are known: 



(1) IccryaatistraliSj^liis^ell. On the Anstralian if. i7(7»/>osrt, (avauilles. Maskell, Tr. 



N.Z.Inst., XXVI, p. 101. 



(2) Lecanium (/e^>j-ess»Hi, Targioni-Tozzetti. Maskell, Tr. N. Z. Inst., XXV, p. 220. 



(3) Aspidiotus rttaoVp var.j)ro2)(«r//m, Maskell. On the Australian J. s«/)«7wa, Knight. 



Maskell, Tr. N. Z. Inst., XXV. p. 20G. 



\ Eriococcus multispinus, Maskell, was found on the New Zealand 

 Knight ia excel sa, Robert Brown. 

 The following are from 7?a?iA-.sm: 



y\) Caiostoma ruUginosum, Maskell. On the Australian li. iuUynfoJia. Maskell, 

 Tr. X. Z. Inst., XXV, p. 213. 



(2) Ceronema haiiksi(r, Maskell. On Ji. scrrafn. Maskell, Tr. X. Z. Inst., XXVII, p. 57. 



(3) Lecanium fretichii. On B.martjinala, Cava-nillea (t^yn. a usiralis). Maskell, Tr. N. 



Z.Inst., XVIII, p. 17. 

 (1) Aspidiotus suhruhexcens, Maskell. Maskell, Tr. X. Z. Inst., XXV, p. 207. 



(5) MytiJaspis f/randilobis, Maskell. Maskell, Tr. X. Z. Inst., XXVI, p. 71. 



(6) M. citricola, Packard. On B. intcurifolia. Maskell, Tr. X. Z. Inst., XXVII, p. 4S. 



THYMELvEACE^^. 



Signoret cites AapidiotuH caldcsii, Targioni-Tozzetti, from Daphne 

 collina; and A. (jnidiinml Rhizococcus (jnidii, Signoret, from D.ynidium. 

 These plants are European, as well as the coccids. 



1 Cockerell, Bull. Bot. Dept., .Jamaica, 1895, p. 102. 



2 Insect Life, 1893, p. 160. 



3Tr. N. Z. Inst., XXV, pp. 20ti, 219. 



