NOTES ON COCCI U.l- VI 



E. O. E^iSIli 



fii \'(il. Ml, N(i. 1, page 408, the insect dcseribi'd as Erioconus adcnoiloviaf 

 Elirliorii IN Lfvanioiliaspis rufescens Cockercll. 



On page HI the title and part of the deseriptinn of Orthezia artemisiae 

 fkll. were omitted bv the jjrinters and was as follows: 



Orthezia artemisiae Ckll. 



This insect (Fig. 1 kS B. \\ C. Jr. Knt. Vol. Ill, No. 1., p. 406) was first sent 

 to the writer by Hoy K. Hishop, Hortieiiltural C'onnnissioner of Orange county. 

 Since that time I have obt.'iined it in the vicinity of Santa Paula. 



The long white egg sac makes it at once conspicuous and easy to delect. It 

 occurs in great numbers on the California sage (Arlemisia californica) during 

 the later summer months. That it never increases to any damaging numbers 

 may be explained by the fact that it is parasitized by a dipterous insect which 

 is an egg feeder. In some dozen females I was able to obtain several of the 

 puparia, but was not fortunate enough to hatch out an adult fly. 



In describing this ciH-eid, I can do no In-tter than to duplicate here. Cocker- 

 ell's original description, which is as follows: 



"Orthezia artemisiae n. sp. Female: Immature form. Anti-iiiia- and legs 

 piceous. Body covered with white secretion. Dorsum with two rows of denti- 

 form tufts; the first four direete»l forwards; the remaining seven, decreasing 

 in size eaudad. directed backwards. Nine lateral tufts; the first on a level with 

 the second dorsal tufts, at right angles to the bo<ly ; the others directed back- 

 wards, and about of ecpial length, except the last two, which are longer and nar- 

 rower, the last being longest. Caudal tufts extending eaudad of last lateral 

 tufts. 



"Mature Feinalr: DitTiT-. by having the lamella- or tufts much elongated, 

 the first dorsal erect, longer than broad; the remaining dorsal produced and no 

 longer dentiform. The arrangement is now j)ractically as in adult O. urticae 

 (L.), except that the first dorsal lamalla' are smaller (instead of larger) than 

 the third. The hindmost lateral lamella" are also somewhat less produced than 

 in urticae. Antenme and legs red-brown; antcnnic eight-segmented, three 

 longest; five a little longer than four; six and seven about equal, and shorter 

 than four; eight about as long as five. I.i'ngth of insect, without ovisac, 2V'2 

 mm. Ovisac moderate, white, distinctly ribt«-d." 



"O. artemisae is nearest to O. annae, but the latter has the lamella* less defi- 

 nitely formed, and differs also in the antennte." Can. Enl. XXX. p. 19-20, 1898. 



