HEMIPTERA 107 



Asi'iDiOTUs BoLiche. 

 'Aspidiotiis BoLiche, 1833, Naturg. Ins. 1. p. 8 ; Schadl. Gart. Ins. p. 52. 



(i) Aspidiotits aurautii Maskell. 



Aspidiotus aurautii Maskell, 187S, Trans. N. Z. Inst. p. 109; 1895, op. cit. 

 pp. 2 & 46 ; Green, 1896, Coccidae Ceylon, p. 42, PI. 12; Newstead, 1901, 

 Mon. Coccidae British Isles, i. p. 88, Pis. 1, 2, & 11. 



Hab. Hawaiian Isles, " from Honolulu, on a species oi Podocaipus from Japan, a 

 good deal deeper red than the type" (Maskell); "ubiquitous in warm temperate- 

 countries" (Maskell) ; Samoa, \'iti Isles, Toga, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia 

 on Ciirus. California, Jamaica on E^icalyptus, Cyprus, Syria, Greece, and Ceylon. 



(2) Aspidiotus cydoniae Comstock. 



Aspidiotus cydoiiiac Comst., 1881, Agricult. Rep. for 1880, p. 295; Maskell, 1895, 



Trans. N. Z. Inst. p. 3 ; Green, 1896, Coccidae Ceylon, p. 46, PI. xiv. 

 A. cydouiac var. tccta Maskell, 1897, tint. Mo. Mag. xxxiii. p. 240. 



Hab. Hawaiian Isles, on Casuariua and orange trees, var. teda on " Ohia ' tree 

 (Maskell) ; Samoa, Ceylon. N. America. 



(3) Aspidiotus pcrscaruui Cockerell. 



Aspidistus {s\c) pcrscaruui Cock., 1S98, Entom. p. 240. 

 Hab. Hawaiian Isles (Cockerell). 



(4) Aspidiotus iiiaskc/Ii Cockerell. 



Aspidiotus longispiiia Maskell, 1895, Trans. N. Z. Inst, xxvii. pj). 4 & 38, and 



1897, Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxiii. p. 241 (nee Morgan). 

 A. [Alorganella) uiaske/li Cock., 1897, Bull. U. S. Dep. Agric. Tech. ser. 6, p. 22'. 

 Aspidistus (sic) uiaskcl/i Qock., 1898, Entom. p. 240'. 



Hai;. Hawaiian Isles, on Citrus and Maiigifera and on Kukui (Maskell); "on 

 Ohia tree, from Kailua, N. Kona ' (Cockerell); Brazil. 



" A minute bright-eyed mite (seemingly Gainasid) was very active and numerous 

 amongst " them and " I found many of the Aspidioti which appeareel to have been 

 partly devoured, whether by this or some other parasite I could not determine " 

 (Maskell). 



' Each of these descriptions is marked " n. sp." 



