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numbers are as follows: lower laterals — 14 to 16; vipper laterals — 21 to 27; 

 median — 9 to 12. 



According to the mounted specimen shown in Figure 82, D., it would 

 appear that the young were born alive and crawl from beneath the shell as 

 in the case of the ovoviviparous forms. The yeung body (Fig. 82A) resembles 

 the young of most scale. The whole thorax is apparently undivided while 

 the abdomen is markedly segmented. The antennae are rather short and 

 stout with the normal number of spines. The pygidium has two very distinct 

 and stout spines — one on either anal lobe, with several smaller spines also. 

 The eyes are black. 



Food plants — Podocavpus chincnsis, Pinus. 



Habitat — A native of Japan, but shipped into this state on nursery stock ; 

 the described species was collected at Bakersfield and sent to this office by 

 Mr. Edw. IM. Ehrhorn when he w-as Quarantine Commissioner at San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Figure 83. Hemichionaspis aspidistrae. 



Heinichionaspis aspidistrae Sign 



Female; Scale (Fig. 83, B) — Long and narrow, differing greatly in shape. 

 Some are oyster-shaped while others are straight with all the possible grad- 

 uations between these two. In general, however, the body-end is nearly 

 pointed and the scale gradually widens to the posterior end which is the 

 widest and rounded. Length 2 to 2.5 mm., width about one-third the length. 

 Color — Straw to a deep brown, and in extreme cases almost purplish-black. 

 Exuvia about as long as the width of the body at its widest place, with a 

 distinct ridge running down the dorsum. 



Female Body (Fig. 83, A) — Nearly as long as the shell and deeply seg- 

 mented. Color — yellow to brown. 



