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(judging from the name, label, slide, and date). A slide bearing two 

 females from the collections of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, labeled "No. 3. Aleyrodes coronatus on live oak. GroviUe, 

 Cal. H. '07." Another slide from the same collection bearing four 

 females, labeled "8183°. Par: on Orthezia sp. ? Campesas,^ Brazil. 

 Fritz Noack." Another slide from the same collection bearing two 

 females and the label "416«. Asy. on quince, Fla. Mar. '80." Two 

 females borne on another slide from the same source and bearing 

 the label "(s). Bred ivom. Aleyrodes sp. Pasadena, Cal., May, 1908." 

 Tlomotypes. One female on a similar slide, together with two 

 alphelinmes, labeled "(18). 2 sps. Bred from Aleyrodes gelatinosus 

 on oak, Los Angeles, Cal., April, '08." Five females on a slide from 

 the same source bearing the label "Morrill No. 511" and probably 

 taken in Florida (judging from the label). Another slide from the 

 same source bearing three females, together with a female of Prospal- 

 tella citrelh, Howard and labeled "Morrill No. 508 and No. 511. 1 

 spec, of 508 and 3 specs, of 511" (judging from the label, from 

 Orlando, Florida). A final slide labeled "1813. Aspidiotus suhru- 

 lescens Mask, on Oleander, Honolulu, H. I. A. Koebele. 10. III. 99." 

 and JDearing two females together with many specimens of an ApJie- 

 linus. In addition, two females of this species on a slide with mexi- 

 cana, from the United States Department of Agriculture collections, 

 labeled "1725. Aspidiotus on common wild shrub on streams: Calif.; 

 Cuautla, Morelos, Mex. July 1, '97. Koebele." 



Habitat — United States — California (originally San Gabriel?; Gro- 

 ville, Pasadena, Los Angeles); Florida (? Orlando). Hawaiian 

 Islands (Honolulu). South America — Brazil (Campesas?). Mexico 

 (Cuautla, Morelos). 



Hosts. — Aleyrodes sp. on Quercus agrifolia, Aleyrodes coronatus on 

 live oak and Aleyrodes gelatinosus on oak (California); Orthezia sp. 

 (Brazil). Aspidiotus subrubrescens Maskell on oleander (Hawaii). 

 Aspidiotus sp. (Mex.; California). 



Type. — The single female as noted above. 



Homotypes. — Accession No. 45095, IlHnois State Laboratory of Nat- 

 ural History, Urbana, two females in xylol-balsam, 1 slide (Pasadena, 

 California) . 



12. SIGNIPHORA ASPIDIOTI Ashmead. 

 Signiphora aspidioti Ashmead, 1900, pp. 409, 412. 



On the same page that coquilletti was described, Ashmead described 

 a new species under the name of aspidioti in the manner quoted below. 

 This species is identical with coquilletti structurally, but differs in 

 that the distal half of the antennal club is dusky, a phenomenon not 

 observed in the series of specimens of coquilletti examined by me but 

 which would be expected to occur m a number of specimens if it was 



J On the label merely this: " Camp.—" 



