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ASPIDIOTUS PUNICAE Ckll. 

 Cockercll, T. D. A., Jn. Inst. Jamaica, 1893, p. 325. 



Female scale approximately circular, i to i 1-4 mm. in 

 diameter, white; exuviae orange brown. 



Female anal segment with median lobes large, plainly 

 notched on outer margin, slightly notched on inner margin 

 near end; second lobes small, inner angle prominent, round- 

 ingly sloping to apex ot second incision; third lobe rudiment- 

 ary, "practically obsolete;" margin laterad of third lobe 

 slightly serrate. One or two small plates between median 

 lobes and many simple spine-like plates between median and 

 third lobes. A spine from each of first, second and third 

 lobes, and one from lateral margin. Chitinous processes of 

 first incision wide, rounding, inner one largest; chitin of 

 second incision pronounced but hardly separable into two 

 processes Ventral grouped glands well forward, caudolater- 

 al group opposite vagin il orifice; median, one; cephalolateral, 

 five to six; caudolateral, two to three. 



Habitat: Pomegranate in Jamaica and cotoanut in 

 Dominica. 



This lorm, as before mentioned, shows a distinct ap- 

 proach to the species of Hcmibcrlcsia in the form of the 

 chitinous processes and the fringe of plates Indeed the 

 general resemblance to A. cydoniac is quite marked, but the 

 number and shape of the plates are materially different. 



ASPIDIOTUS DIFFINIS Newst. Var. LATERALIS Ckll. 

 Cockercll, T. D. A., Can. Ent. Vol. XXVI. p. 130. 



Female scale i mm in diameter, brownish white to 

 brown, convex, round or slightly oval; exuviae subcentral, 



"Female with lobes and plates as m piuiicac." Ventral 

 grouped glands absent. 



(See note on p. 5 relative to this species.) 



