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three, the penultimate and the three or four pairs anterior to the 
penultimate pair usually with three or four spines, those of the 
anal lobe the largest, no chitinized areas about any of the cerarii, 
although chitinization is faintly indicated about anal lobe cerarii. 
Ventral side of anal lobes with quite large chitinized area extend- 
ing in from the base of the anal lobe setae; anal lobe and anal 
ring setae nearly equal, one and one-half times diameter anal ring. 
In life salmon pink, form oval to short oval, fairly convex, 
dorsal secretion of wax fairly abundant, hiding the color of 
the derm; marginal filaments not very long (less than one- 
fourth width of body) and more or less uniform in length 
excepting the filaments from the anal lobes and those immedi- 
ately anterior to them, which grade posteriorly from the length 
above stated to nearly the full length of the body in the case 
of those of the anal lobes. Beneath this pair are two short 
plate-like filaments and some fluffy wax, occasionally a drop 
of honey-dew. The species is negatively phototropic. It is 
ovoviviparous, therefore no egg sac is produced. Always 
present on pineapples, sugar-cane, and bananas, and often 
found on other plants, particularly on sisal, soursop, and on 
Phe roots Of (Cannas, Nut-orags, ete. .- sc. - - wnieie brevipes 
Pseudococcus brevipes (Cockerell). 
I have accepted Professor Cockerell’s suggestion to use the 
above name for the common species on pineapples, bananas, etc., 
which has apparently now become widely distributed with the 
transference of plants from one region to another in the interest 
of agricultural development. Secretive in habit, it could be over- 
looked without fault of anyone on plants in transit from one 
country to another, and this habit has probably aided its dis- 
semination. 
The species appears to be partial to bromeliaceous and allied 
plants, and, in view of the discovery of several internal para- 
sites of it in Central and South America, I consider it indigenous 
in the tropical portion of the American continent. It does not 
seem to flourish outside the tropics. 
The species (under the name bromeliae) is treated by Ferris 
in a paper entitled “Observations on Some Mealy-Bugs” in 
Jn. Econ. Ent., XII, p. 296, and a figure given of the distin- 
guishing morphological characters. Ferris established the iden- 
tity of our species by including it with specimens from Florida 
and the West Indies, which Cockerell has stated are identical 
with brevipes. Morrison (loc. cit.) and Green (Pt. V, Coccidae 
