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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.96 
  

  

  uniformly 
  weakly 
  reticulated. 
  Forewing 
  Avith 
  discal 
  cilia 
  basad 
  of 
  

   speculum 
  a 
  little 
  sparser 
  and 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  distad, 
  the 
  speculum 
  

   closed 
  at 
  posterior 
  margin 
  of 
  wing 
  by 
  several 
  rows 
  of 
  hairs 
  but 
  other- 
  

   wise 
  uninterrupted; 
  marginal 
  vein 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  post- 
  

   marginal 
  distinct, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  stigmal. 
  

  

  Abdomen 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  combined, 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  thorax 
  

   at 
  base 
  and 
  tapering 
  to 
  a 
  point 
  at 
  apex, 
  distinctly 
  reticulately 
  sculp- 
  

   tured 
  over 
  the 
  whole 
  dorsal 
  surface, 
  nearly 
  smooth 
  ventrally. 
  Oviposi- 
  

   tor 
  exserted 
  one-third 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  abdomen. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Length 
  0.85 
  mm. 
  Like 
  female 
  except 
  as 
  follows: 
  Whole 
  

   antenna 
  much 
  paler 
  in 
  color, 
  the 
  scape 
  whitish 
  with 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  

   fuscous 
  stripe, 
  pedicel 
  and 
  funicle 
  grayish 
  white, 
  and 
  club 
  white; 
  

   abdomen 
  not 
  longer 
  than 
  thorax, 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  apex, 
  nearly 
  

   circular, 
  blackish 
  dorsally 
  but 
  with 
  lateral 
  margins 
  broadly 
  margined 
  

   with 
  whitish. 
  

  

  7'ype 
  locality. 
  — 
  Houma, 
  La. 
  

  

  Type.—\J. 
  S. 
  N. 
  M. 
  No. 
  57328. 
  

  

  Remarks. 
  — 
  Described 
  from 
  numerous 
  specimens 
  received 
  from 
  D. 
  W. 
  

   Clancy 
  of 
  the 
  Charlottesville, 
  Va., 
  laboratory 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Ento- 
  

   mology 
  and 
  Plant 
  Quarantine, 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  reared 
  from 
  Pseudo- 
  

   coccus 
  honinsis 
  (Kuwana) 
  collected 
  at 
  Houma, 
  La., 
  in 
  November 
  

   1943. 
  Besides 
  this 
  type 
  series 
  the 
  following 
  identifications 
  of 
  this 
  

   species 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  by 
  me 
  : 
  One 
  specimen 
  labeled 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  

   reared 
  February 
  10, 
  1916, 
  from 
  Pseudococcus 
  calceolariae 
  (Maskell) 
  

   [ 
  — 
  misidentification 
  of 
  P. 
  honinsis 
  (Kuwana)] 
  collected 
  at 
  Audubon 
  

   Park, 
  New 
  Orleans, 
  La., 
  by 
  E. 
  R. 
  Barber 
  ; 
  three 
  specimens 
  reared 
  in 
  

   1943 
  from 
  Pseudococcus 
  honinsis 
  (Kuwana), 
  collected 
  at 
  Houma 
  and 
  

   Raceland, 
  La., 
  by 
  E. 
  K. 
  Bynum; 
  two 
  specimens 
  indicated 
  as 
  having 
  

   been 
  reared 
  from 
  P. 
  honinsis 
  at 
  Cairo, 
  Ga., 
  in 
  1932, 
  by 
  E, 
  K. 
  Bynum 
  ; 
  

   two 
  specimens 
  taken 
  at 
  quarantine 
  at 
  Brownsville, 
  Tex., 
  on 
  cut 
  flowers 
  

   from 
  Mexico; 
  nine 
  specimens 
  reared 
  from 
  the 
  pink 
  mealybug 
  of 
  

   sugarcane 
  {THonymus 
  sacchari 
  Cockerell), 
  December 
  28, 
  1932, 
  at 
  Rio 
  

   Piedras, 
  Puerto 
  Rico, 
  by 
  F. 
  Sein, 
  under 
  P. 
  R. 
  Ace. 
  No. 
  178-32. 
  Also 
  

   before 
  me 
  are 
  specimens 
  reared 
  in 
  breeding 
  tests 
  at 
  the 
  Charlottesville, 
  

   Va., 
  laboratory 
  from 
  the 
  following 
  hosts 
  : 
  Phenacoccus 
  gossypn 
  Town- 
  

   send 
  and 
  Cockerell, 
  Pseudococcus 
  comstocki 
  (Kuwana), 
  and 
  P. 
  adoni- 
  

   dvm 
  (Linnaeus). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  has 
  become 
  confused 
  in 
  the 
  literature 
  with 
  Aphycus 
  

   terryi 
  FuUaway 
  {^Pseudococcohius 
  terryi 
  FuUaway). 
  In 
  the 
  arti- 
  

   cle 
  by 
  E. 
  K. 
  Bynum 
  cited 
  above, 
  it 
  is 
  indicated 
  that 
  living 
  material 
  

   of 
  A. 
  terryi 
  was 
  received 
  in 
  1932 
  by 
  T. 
  E. 
  Holloway, 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  

   Entomology 
  and 
  Plant 
  Quarantine 
  laboratory 
  in 
  New 
  Orleans, 
  from 
  

   the 
  Hawaiian 
  Sugar 
  Planters' 
  Experiment 
  Station 
  in 
  Hawaii. 
  The 
  

   original 
  stock 
  was 
  apparently 
  increased 
  by 
  propagation 
  in 
  the 
  labora- 
  

  

  