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SCIENCE BULLETIN, No. 18. 



Ceroplastes floridensis, Comstock. 

 Report United States Department of Agriculture, 1880, p. 331. 1881. 

 This is a cosmopolitan species, originally described from the United States, 

 but fotind all over India, Japan, West Indies, and the Hawaiian Islands. It 

 is recorded upon many fruit-trees and shrubs, and in Mrs. Fernald's catalogue 

 is reported from Australia, but if so it is a rare and comparatively unknown 

 coccid in this country. 



758. Ceroplastes floridensis. Cat. Coccidse, p. 152. 



Ceroplastes rvbens, Maskell (Fig. 10). 



Trans. iV. Zealand Inst., vol. xxv, p. 214, pi. xii, figs. 6-10. 1892. 

 Ceroplastes myricae. Green, Indian Museum Notes, vol. v. No. 18, p. 8. 1900. 

 Ceroplastes rubens. Green, Coccidce of Ceylon, Part iv, p. 273. 1909. 



Though originally described from Australia, it is probable that this coccid, 

 which is commonly known as the " Eed Wax Scale " was introduced into 

 this country from Ceylon and from there spread to Japan and the Hawaiian 

 Islands. It is comparatively rare on any of our native shrubs, but common 

 in gardens, especially in our Botanic Gardens where it attacks many eastern 



Fig. 10.— Ceroplastes rubens. 



