COFFEE INSECTS. 63 



B. OTHER IMPORTANT COFFEE INSECTS. 



HEMIPTERA. 

 Coccidro: 



Armored— 

 i^iAspidiotus (Pseudaonidia) articulatus Morgan; Venezuela, Jamaica, British Guiana. Adult female 



2-2.25 mm. in diameter, semitransparent, pale brown or yellowish. 

 Lepidosaphes corrugata Green; Java. Adult female, scale 3-4.5 mm. in length, 1 mm. broad, dull black, 



thick, opaque, with many curved transverse corrugations. 

 Unarmored— 

 Asterolecanium coffese Newstead; German East Africa. Liable to be introduced on leaves and twigs. 



Adult female, test golden yellow, margin fringed with golden yellow glassy filaments; test of old 



specimen opaque grayish with bottle-green markings. 

 Cerococcus ornatus Green; Ceylon. Liable to be introduced on twigs. Adult female enclosed in test 



of wax which is purplish brown, on each of the sloping sides are two wax ridges; length 2-2.5 mm. 

 Ceroplastes ceriferus Anderson; German East Africa. On Coffea arabica. (See Citrus.) 

 Ceroplastes vinsonioides Newstead; Uganda. Liable to be introduced on leaves and twigs. Adult fe- 

 male, covered with wax, test dark cinnamon to brownish, young female star shaped. 

 Coccus viridis Green; Brazil, Ceylon, India, Mauritius. Liable to be introduced on cuttings and 



foliage. Adult female 2.5 to 3.25 mm. in length, breadth 1.5 to 2 mm.; pale green withloop of blackish 



spots on dorsum. 

 Lecanium caudatus Green; Ceylon. Liable to be introduced on cuttings and foliage. Adult female 



3-4 mm. in length, 2-3 mm. in breadth; oval, narrowed in front broadly rounded behind, bright, 



castaneous. 

 Ortheziola fodiens Giard; Guadaloupe. Liable to be introduced on roots. Adult female 2 mm. long, 



1.5 mm. broad, tawny red provided with laminations. 

 Pseudococcus coffex Newstead; Java; Liberian coffee. Adultfemale covered with densely felted plates 



of white secretion, 

 Pseudococcus virgatus Cockerell; Jamaica, Mexico, Hawaii. Liable to be introduced on foliage, 



branches, or roots. Adult female 4-5 mm. long, white mealy brown above with caudal filaments 



about half the length of the body; antennae 8-jointed. 

 Pulvinaria camelicola Signoret; Hawaii. Adult female 2-3 mm. in length, ovisac from four to eight 



times 'ength of insect. 

 Pulvinaria ficus Hempel; Montserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts. Adult female length 5 mm., width 2.25 



mm.; ovisac white and fluffy; antennae 8-jointed. 

 Pulvinaria mammex Maskell. Adult female before gestation about 8 mm. long. Ovisac large, snow 



white, forming a mass of loose cotton. 

 Rhizoecus eloti Giard; Guadaloupe. Liable to be introduced on roots. Adult female elongate, anal 



tubercles prominent; antennae 5-jointed. 

 i^Saissetia nigra Nietner; Costa Rica, Ceylon, India. Liable to be introduced on cuttings and plants. 



Adult female length 3-5 mm,, breadth 2-3 mm.; black, oval, convex with dorsum occasionally form- 

 ing a pronounced hump; a longitudinal carina is often present, 



THYSANOPTERA. 



* Heliothrips rubrodnctv,3 Giard; West Indies, Ceylon, Uganda, Florida; attacks Coffea liberica. (See 

 plate X.) 



COLEOPTERA. 

 Bostrychldae. 



Apate monachus Fabrlcius; Africa, West Indies. (See Citrus.) 



Cerambycidse. 



Monohammus fistulator Germar; Java, Sumatra, Borneo; bores in wood. 

 Bixadus sierricola White; Sierra Leone to Kamerun; very serious borer. 

 Coptops fusca Olivier, C. bidens Fabricius, Barxus sordidus Olivier, Sternotomis imperialis Fabrlcius; 



S. regalis Fabricius, Moecha buttneri Kolbe, M. molator Fabricius, and Frea macuHcomls Thomson, 



West Africa; bore in wood. 

 Anthores asperula White; East and South Africa; a very serious borer. 

 Frea marmorata Gerstaecker; East Africa. 

 Praonetha melanura Pascoe; Java. 



Nitocris usambica Kolbe; East Africa; a very injurious borer. 

 Xylotrechus javanicus Lap. et Gory; Java; bores in bark and wood. 

 Xylotrechus quadripes Chevrolat; India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Tonkin, Philippines; bores in bark and 



wood. (See text fig. 35.) 



Brachyrhlnidse (Otlorhynchldse). 



Hypomeces curtus Schonherr; eats the foliage of young plants In Java. 



Pachnxus litus Germar; breeds at the roots, the larvae gnawing the bark. In Cuba. 



Pachnxxis azurescens Gyllenhal; breeds at the roots, the larvae gnawing the bark in Cuba. 



