22 CALIFORNIA STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



dots. Segmentation distinct. There are two longitudinal rows of light 

 brown dots on the meson. The dorsum and margin are thickly set with 

 long fine iridescent spines, which are deciduous. Legs and antennae 

 light brown, quite hairy. Caudal filaments short and stout. When 

 placed in boiling KHO, body turns reddish brown. After boiling, derm 

 becomes colorless, antennae, mouth parts, and legs remaining light 

 brown. Antennae long and slender, each joint with a few long fine 

 hairs. Joint 3 longest, next comes joint 2, joints 4 and 5 subequal, 

 joints 1 and 6 subequal, joint 8 shortest. Formula, approximately: 

 3 2 (4 5) 9 ( 1 6) 7 8. Legs long and stout, quite hairy; trochanter with 

 very long bristle; femur a trifle shorter than tibia; tarsus about one third 

 of tibia. Claw long and slender, with tooth. Digitules fine knobbed 

 hairs. Lobes well developed, with a long seta, and two long fine 

 bristles. Anal ring with six stout hairs. On each segment of the ven- 

 tral surface, thorax, and on the head, there are numerous very long fine 

 hairs, and there are numerous short fine spines and numerous spin- 

 nerets with club-shaped tubes scattered over the body. 



Newly hatched larvae orange colored, elongate oval. Antennae 

 6-jointed, quite stout. Formula: 6 3 (1 2) (4 5). Legs short and stout; 

 tarsus as long as tibia. Rostral loop extending beyond last coxae. 

 Caudal lobes and setae quite prominent. 



On Starhyos bullata. 



Ceroputo bahise Ehrh. 



Adidt Female.— About 4 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, covered with 

 white cottony secretion, with a distinct ridge of cottony tufts running 

 longitudinally on the meson and two smaller ridges parallel with it. 

 Each ridge has a large tuft at the cephalic end. Margin fringed with 

 short, broad cottony appendages, getting longer toward caudal end. 

 Legs and antennae dark brown. Color of body is greenish yellow, with 

 a brown patch on the meson. When boiled in KHO turns crimson at 

 first, then derm becomes colorless, except a row of dark brown patches 

 on the body near and running parallel with the margin. These grow 

 larger caudad. Body is densely covered with round glands and stout 

 conical spines. Anal ring large, with six long stout hairs and numer- 

 ous stout hairs scattered over area surrounding it. Antennae remain 

 brown. Antennae 9-jointed, long and stout. Formula: 3596 74812. 

 All joints quite hairy, and joint 9 quite pointed with numerous hairs. 

 Legs long, stout, and thickly covered with very stout hairs; femur and 

 tibia subequal; tarsus about one third of tibia. Claw very stout and 

 curved, with tooth. Digitules very long fine hair. 



Immature Male. — Much like female, smaller and lighter color, about 

 2i mm. long, I^ mm. broad. Legs not as stout. Antennae 7-jointed. 

 Formula: 37 2(1 4 56). 



