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HEMIPTERA. 



Crustacea, and like them, they can scarcely be referred to the 

 type of Articulates at all, while other forms, such as C. cacti 

 in its larval state, resemble Glomeris, or the Isopods, among 

 Crustacea. On the other hand the males have been mistaken 

 for some Neuroptera, and the male Coccus, with its long anal 

 stjdets and the single pair of fore wings, may be likened to 

 an Ephemera. The genera Aspidiotus and Lecanium are par- 

 thenogenous, as in the Aphidoi. 



In AleuTodes both sexes are winged and of similar form, the 

 antennae are six-jointed, w'ith the second joint lengthened, and 



in the fore wings, 

 which are spread out 

 as in Lepidoptera, 

 there is but a single 

 vein, the median. We 

 have received from 

 Mr. J. L. Russell 

 specimens of A. va- 



Xporariuvi which oc- 

 curred in great num- 

 bers on his house- 

 plants and especially 

 Fig. 526. on the tomato leaves. 



The winged forms appeared early in September. The larvse 

 are green and scale-like, rounded oval, and the pupa^ retain the 

 same form and are smooth beneath, but with minute hairs 

 above and on the edges. The adult is yellowish white, with 

 snow-white wings, and is about ,04 of an inch in length. 

 The body of the imago nearly formed, 

 with black e^'es, can be seen through the 

 thin pupa skin. In Dorthesia the males 

 only are provided with wings ; the an- 

 tennae are long, nine-jointed, and the 

 abdomen is oval, ending in a bushy mass 

 of threads. The genus Coccus differs in 

 that the two-winged males have ten- 

 jointed antennffi and two anal bristles. 

 The females have nine-jointed antennte, and are covered with a 

 flattened, hemispherical scale. The Cochineal insect, Coccus 



