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 ASPiDioTUS JATROPHAE Towiis and Ckll. 



Towiisc'iui and ("Dckcri'll, .louni. N. Y. Ent. Soc. Sept. 1S9S, p. 178. 



Body of female round, yellow. Median lobes of anal 

 segment well developed, close together, notched on outer 

 side; second lobe with inner part acutely produced to about 

 opposite middle of median lobe, usually distinctly notched 

 at apex, outer portion roundingly sloping to second incision; 

 third lobe slightly developed at inner angle. Median incision 

 narrow; first and second incisions rather small and shallow. 

 A chitinous process on each side of first incision, the inner 

 the largest and with apical angle often produced making the 

 latter appear superficially as a third process, outer process en- 

 larged toward apex; second incisic n with two chitinous pro- 

 cesses, small, of nearly equal size. Between median and 

 second lobes, one or two multi-pointed plates; between 

 second and third lobes two slender plates and a broad multi- 

 pointed one; laterad of third lobe three plates, the inner one 

 broadest and most complex. Ventral grouped glands absent. 



ASPIDIOTUS JATROPHAE Towns. and Ckll. var. parrotti n. var. 



This form differs from the preceding in the following 

 characters: Scale smaller, quite convex; exuviae lateral. 

 Inner portion of second lobe broader and shorter than in 

 jatrophac, distinctly notched; inner portion of second lobe 

 longer. Chitinous processes of first incision about equal; two 

 processes on base of median lobe much more pronounced. 



Described from six females in the collection of Prof. 

 Cockerell, collected from ' -Barcnjcno Cliiqiiitd' at Frontera, 

 Mex. (Div. Ent. 7825). 



Named in honor of Prof. P. J. Parrott of the Kansas 

 Agricultural College, in recognition of the useful studies he 

 has recently made of certain of the Coccidae. 



