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spines from each lobe and a spine on lateral margin one-third 

 distance to penultimate segment. Ventral grouped glands 

 forward, caudolateral group about opposite vaginal Orifice: 

 median, none; cephalolateral, five; caudolateral, four 



Originally described from specimens taken in Mexico. 



This species closely resembles cydo>iiac. Perhaps it is 

 really no more than a variety of it. At the same time there 

 is no question but that it is distinctly different Irom the form 

 described as cydoniac by Comstock, both in the size and color 

 of the scale and in the characters of the plates of the anal 

 segment. 



ASPiDiOTUS PALMAE Morg. and Ckll. 



Morgan and Cockorell, Ent. Mag., Vol. XXIX, jip. 40 and SO. 



Specimens and the original description are not at hand. 

 The following is from Cockerell's description in Bulletin Tech. 

 Ser. 6 of the Division of Entomology. 



Female scale much like that of rapax. Female differs 

 from rapax by the distinct though small second and third 

 lobes, median lobes wider apart, plates longer and much 

 branched at the tips, four groups of ventral glands. 



Habitat: West Indies, on cocoanut and banana, and 

 rarely on other plants. 



ASPIDIOTUS ULMi Johns. 



.lohnson. W. (>., 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., Vol. IV. p. 388. 



Female scale circular, diameter i i-2 mm , whitish; 

 exuviae orange colored, sub-central in positicn. 



Median lobes of female anal segment parallel, notched 

 distinctly on both sides; second and third lobes rudimentary. 

 Inner chitinous process of first incision elongated and en- 

 larged into a knob at its apex, extending well forward. All 

 plates spine-like; two between median and second lobes; four 

 between first and second incisions; and three or four laterad of 



