l82 



fraternus 



Hou-. 



NEW VORK STATE MLSEUM 



Pach\ncurnn alti scuta 



^ 



M. l:. S. Dcp'. A^ri 



turni size above, enlarged 

 Div. Eiit. Bui. 26, n. s. 1900) 



How., and C h i I n- 

 n o u r u s a 1 b i - 

 CO rn i s How., 



and a small fly, 

 L e u c tj p i s n i s.; - 

 r i c o r n i s Egger. 

 Professor Pettit 

 also obtained the 

 small ladybug 



named above. 



Remedial meas- 

 ures. This s|jeci(ts 

 is so closely allied 

 to the more 

 common cottony 

 maple scale, P u 1- 



vinaria i n n u m e r a b i 1 i s Rathv. that measures of value against one 

 should prove of nearly ecjual service in the case of the other. 



Bibliography 

 1900 Howard, L. O. U. S. Dii/t Agrii. Div. ILnt. lUiI. 22, n. s. p. 16-23 



Maple phenacoccus 



P/iciuuo(i'iis atcr/co/a King 



Cottony, white scale insects occurring on tlie underside of sugar m.Tiile leaves, or 

 cottony, white, masses of i)U])ae on the trunk may be tliose of this insect. 



This species is a relatively rare form which has attracted very little 

 notice till recent years. It was apparently l)rt)ught to the attention of the 

 late I)r Lintner but once during his long term of service as state entomol 

 ogist, and previous to 1901 had been sent to the writer only once. It was, 

 however, extremely abiuidant in 1901 on hard maples in Albany, and it 

 was observed on a great many of these trees at both Worcester and Spring- 

 field Mass. One tree in Albany was so badly infested that thousands of 



