HUNTER : COCCID.E OF KANSAS, III. 



105 



veins. Longitudinal median carina prominent, undisturbed by shriv- 

 eling of the body in the dried specimens. 



The following measurements will show the characteristic structure 

 of legs and antenn.ie of the adult female : 



Scale on leaves 

 Scale on twigs. 



Antennal Segments. 



57 

 54 



75 

 66 



84 



84 



63 

 48 



39 

 36 



30 

 27 



36 

 27 



51 

 45 



Scale nn leaves: 



Cephalic leg. . 



Median leg . . . 



Posterior leg. . 

 Scale on tiuig : 



Cephalic leg. . 



Median leg . . . 



Posterior leg. , 



Segments of Leg. 



Breadtli 

 of femur. 



Ill 

 111 

 105 



96 



108 



93 



The above measurements were so characteristic, differing essentially 

 (being in most cases uniformly larger) from either material or de- 

 scription before me, that I sent mounts, specimens in situ and notes 

 to Dr. Howard, for comparison with departmental collections. In 

 u letter he says : "I have asked Mr. Pergande to give it a careful ex- 

 amination, and he rejwrts that it is apparently an undescribed species. 

 We have received it before, and it bears the biologic number in our 

 collection '6222.' We have received it from Charleston and Florence, 

 S. C, both in 1894." 



In our own collections it bears the lot number 39*.), which reft-'rs to 

 like number in accession book. It is here recorded as being received 

 from Wichita, Kan., July 23. 1895. The accompanying letter stated 

 that these insects have been infesting the trees for three or four years. 



On the twigs of this same plum tree Aspidiotus ancylus and As- 

 pnliotusfoi'hesi were present. This is the second instance of the as- 

 sociation in goodly numbers of these two species, the first being lot 

 D, on crab-apple.* 



A number of the scales of P. primi showed the effects of parasites. 

 A specimen was sent to Doctor Howard, who finds it to be Coccopha- 

 gus lecanii Fitch. 



Parlatorf(( pcrfjundel Comstock. Plate XXIV, figs. 1, 2. 



This species is differentiated by Comstock from its nearest ally, 

 Parlatoria proteus Curt., principally by the shape of scale of female : 



4. This lot was discussed in this journal, vol. VIII. No. 1, p. 3. Mention is there made of the 

 presence of another species besides A. forhesi upon tlio crab tree, but the determination of the 

 isecond species as A. ancylus was not given at that time. 



