X0.2156. SUBFAMILY ALEYRODINAE—QUAINTANCE <(- BAKER. 397 



Type.— Cat. No. 19203, U.S.N.M. 



This species is in many ways quite different from others in the 

 genus. The rows of papillae-hke pores on the submarginal area are 

 not met with in any other species and the huge size and prominent 

 rhachis are very distmctive. A. cockerelli, however, seems to show 

 affinities with the present species. 



ALEUROPLATUS (ALEUROPLATUS) TRANSLUCIDUS, new species. 



Plate 58, fig. 2; plate 60, figs. 8-14. 



Two collections by R. S. Woglum prove to he this species. Both 

 were made from orange. The first collection was made at Lahore, 

 India, date unknown, while the second lot was taken at Wazirahad, 

 India, in November, 1910. This species is the only one in the sub- 

 genus, so far as known, which has an ahnost colorless transparent case. 



Pwpa case (pi. 58, fig. 2; pi. 60, figs. 8 and 9).— Size 0.912 by 

 0.72 mm.; shape nearly elliptical, shghtly constricted across the 

 region of the thoracic folds; color semitransparent, whitish yellow; 

 eyespots reddish brown. Dorsum with the sutures very indistinct. 

 Margin (pi. 60, fig. 12) with evenly rounded shallow teeth, from 

 which suture-hke markings extend for a short distance mesad. 

 Thoracic folds distinct, the comb composed of three or four rather 

 prominent teeth (pi. 60, fig. 11). Vasiform orifice (pi. 60, fig. 10) 

 subcircular in outline, with the latero-caudal margin thickened. 

 These margins are covered with numerous dot-like markings or 

 possibly very minute setae. The operculum nearly fills the orifice 

 and is similar to it in shape, though much more compressed on the 

 lateral margins. The pair of setae usually present near the cephalo- 

 lateral margins of the orifice are in this species a pair of spines of about 

 the same length as the orifice. 



On the leaf the case is surrounded with a liberal, semitranslucent 

 wax, in which may usually be distinguished many fine radiating fines 

 of fighter wax. Owing to the evident adhesiveness of the wax the 

 entire insect often becomes covered with dirt, appearing on the leaf as 

 a dirty .brown spot. 



Adult male. — Color reddish, becoming yellow on the vertex, legs, 

 and genital segments. Forewings with dark maculations as shown 

 in figure 14, plate 60, the costal margins red. Hindwings uniform 

 smoky; legs dusky, excepting at the joints; genitaha also dusky; 

 eyes dark brown. Antennae absent from the specimens in hand; 

 claspers (pi. 60, fig. 13) with numerous prominent spines, the distal 

 extremity with two prongs, one long and one short one, and with a 

 somewhat conical projection; proximad of these a shght pubescence 

 visible. Penis usual; length of claspers 0.144 mm. Length of insect 

 from vertex to tip of claspers 0.96 mm.; length of forewing 0.64 mm. 



