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color and markings, but distinctly gibbose. Treated witli 

 KOH the scale turns black, and after prolonged boiling it 

 turns liquid black. Derm after boiling, by transmitted light, 

 j^ellowish, no structural characters visible. 

 Larvce — Dark red-lu'own (lost in Itoiling in KOH), elongate-oval. 

 This is a very pretty species. Its nearest ally is K. galliformis, 

 from which it is separable by having a longitudinal constriction 

 which is not pallid, and by being gibbose. It is also allied to 

 K. cockerelli and K. gillettei in being gibbose. It was first col- 

 lected by Mr. E. O. Essig in the Santa Paula Canyon in the 

 mountains near Santa Paula, "\^entura County, California, in 

 1910. In August, 1913, Mr. S. A. Pease collected it in San 

 Bernardino County. Through Mr. Essig and Prof. Cockerell 

 this material was turned over to me. The species was described 

 from the large number of females in these sendings. 



The host plant is the California coast live oak, Quercus 

 agrifolia. 



I am pleased to name it after its first collector. 



THE EIGHTH CALIFORNIA KERMES 



Kermes occidentalis n. sp. 



GEO. B. KING 



Lawrence, Mass. 



Female Scale — Globular in outline; 5 mm. in diameter; of a dull 

 gray color. Segmentation indicated by five transverse nar- 

 row blackish bands, which are broken at intervals by some- 

 what larger round black dots. Surface between the bands of 

 a marbled light gray-brown. The entire surface is dull, not 

 shiny, and is covered with very minute black specks seen 

 only under a hand lens. 

 The above species was received from Mr. E. M. Ehrhorn in 

 1901 taken on Quercus sp. in California and labeled Kermes 

 (jalliforniis Riley. The latter species is very different, the color 

 being pale yellow; appears minutely and evenly speckled with 

 brown under a hand lens and is more or less confused or mottled 

 with gTay or brown. 



