114 FORTT-FIRST REPORT ON THE StATE MuSEUM. 



Dr. LeConte has exj)ressed tlie ojDinion that the many relations 

 which we have of spider bites frequentl}^ proving- fatal, have no dovibt 

 arisen from the sting of these insects or others of the same genera. 

 Among the many United States species of Araneidce, he had never 

 seen one capable of inflicting the slightest wound. Ignorant persons 

 might easily mistake one of the Eeduviidce for a sj^ider. A physician 

 had sent to him a fragment of a large ant, suj^posing it to be a spider 

 that came out of his grandchild's head. 



It would apjDear from the foregoing, that a certain degree of cau- 

 tion should always be exercised in the handling of any of the 

 Reduviidce, as the structural peculiarities which render them so for- 

 midable to many of the insect world, and so admirably adapted to 

 preying upon them, may readily be directed, under the slightest 

 provocation, to the serious annoyance and injury of man. 



Mytilaspis pomorum (Bouche). 

 The Ajyjjle-tree Bark-louse. 



(Ord. Hemiptera: Subord. Homoptera: Fam. Coccid^.) 



Aspidiotus conchiformis Gmel. [not of Gmel.] Curtis : in Gard. Chron., 



1843, p. 735-G. 

 Aspidiotus pomorum Bouche: in Ent. Zeit. Stett., xii, 1851, No. 1. 

 Aspidiotus pomorum. Harris: Ins. N. Engl., 1852, p. 220; Ins. Inj. Veg., 



1862, p. 252-3. 

 Coccus pyr us -malus Kellicott : in Trans. Cleveland Acad. Sci. for 1854. 

 Aspidiotus conchiformis Gmel. [not of Gmel.] Fitch : in Trans. N. Y. St. 



Agricul. Soc, xiii, 1854, pp. 735-742; 1st and 2d Repts. Ins. N. Y., 



1856, pp. 31-38; 3d-5th Eepts. do., 1859, p. 13. 

 Aspidiotus juglandis Fitch : 1st and 2d Repts. Ins. N. Y., 1856, p. 35 ; Trans. 



cit., p. 739. 

 Aspidiotus conchiformis. Glover: in Eept. Comm. Pat. for 1860 p. 319; in 



Kept. Comm. Agricul. for 1867, p. 73 ; id. for 1870, p. 88-9, fig. 57 ; 



id. for 1876, p. 43, fig. 49. 

 Aspidiotus conchiformis. Walsh: in Pract. EntomoL, ii, 1866, pp. 31, 47 ; 



1st Ann. Kept. Ins. III., 1868, pp. 34-53 (nat. hist., habits, etc.). 

 Aspidiotus conchiformis. Riley: in Pract. Entomol., ii, 1867, p. 81; 1st 



Eept. Ins. Mo., 1869, pp. 7-18, figs. 2, 3; in Amer. EntomoL, ii, 1870, 



p. 213, fig. 132. 

 Aspidiotus conchiformis. Packard : Guide Stud. Ins., 1869, p. 529. 

 Lepidosaphes conchiformis Shimer: in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, i, 1868, 



pp. 361-374 (habits, etc.). 

 Mytilaspis pomorum Signoret: in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1870, p. 98. 

 Mytilaspis pomorum. Le Baron : 1st Eept. Ins. HI., 1871, pp. 24-26, figs. 



