66 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xl 



Aspidiotus florencise, sp. nov. 



Scale of -Female. — Length about 3 mm., width I mm., of rectangular shape with 

 rounded corners, nearly semi-cylindrical ; color light slaty blue, paler at the ends ; 

 exuviae bright red, usually situated near one end, but sometimes in the middle. 



Adult Female. — Length about 1.4 mm., width about .9 mm.; a remarkably 

 large and elongated body ; antenna reduced to a large conical tubercle, with a long 

 heavy spine at the base on the inside and a short tubercle on the outside ; body with 

 several long hairs on and near the lateral margin of each segment, a group of several 

 on the cephalic margin between the antennae, a few short hairs scattered over the 

 body. Characters of the abdominal margin as follows (Plate V, Fig. 10) : two pairs 

 of lobes ; median pair large rounded, without notches (compare with A. calif orfii- 

 C7ts in the figure) ; second pair small, of about the same shape as the median ; a pair 

 of gland openings between the median lobes, and a number of others as indicated in 

 the figure ; a pair of long serrated plates between first and second lobes ; a large, broad, 

 serrated plate laterad of second lobes ; a dorsal and ventral spine arising at the outer 

 base of the second lobes, and three more pairs on the lateral margins as indicated in 

 the figure. Four groups of spinnerets, right hand cephalo-laterals composed of about 

 seven, left hand cephalo-laterals of three ; right hand caudo -laterals of three, left 

 hand caudo-laterals of about six or seven (I have examined a number of specimens 

 and this rather queer arrangement is the same in all of them). 



Larva. — The newly born larvae are about .2 mm. long and .1 mm. wide ; an- 

 tennas five-segmented, formula, 5, 2, i, 3, 4, segment five much longer than all the 

 others together, transversely ringed, with two long lateral hairs ; legs rather long and 

 stout, claw slender, slightly curved, digitules present ; last abdominal segment with 

 two large lobes between which are two short spines and two very long hairs. 



Habitat. — Discovered by the author on herbarium specimens of 

 Pitius ponderosa, Pine Ridge, California. 



Named for my wife. 



Note. — "These two species {A. califomicus and A. florencice'), 

 are very close to one another and to A. ahietes (Schr. ) (Syns. ///// 

 Comst., and ahietes Comst. ). They are extremely variable as to the 

 lobes {calif or /licit s I see may have two or three pairs) and glands, and 

 it strikes me as possible that the two species are extreme variations 

 of the one, and that is abietes. However, I can hardly believe this, 

 especially as the dorsal glands are less numerous in califomicus than 

 in iiorencia:. It is califoniiciis vihxch. is nearest to abietes ; it probably 

 is a ' representative species, ' taking the place of abietes in California. 



"A. fiorencicc has some resemblance to A. citpressi Ckll. but 

 cupressi has only one pair of lobes and the anal orifice is much nearer 

 the hind end than in fiorencice. {Cupressi lives in Mexico, see Biol. 

 Cent. America. )" (Cockerell.) 



Type specimen in the entomological collection of Stanford Uni- 

 versitv. 



