somf: coccidae from eastern asia. 



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Female 1 • 1 mm. long, elongate, rather broad ; the derm membranous except for 

 the pygidium ; the margins of the last three abdominal segments ])roiecting and 

 bearing numerous gland spines and likewise bearing a small spur-like, chitinised pro- 

 cess (fig. 5, A). In some specimens this process may be developed on but part of 

 the segments. Dorsum of the abdomen with large numbers of extremely small 

 ducts. 



Pygidium (fig. 5, B) with two pairs of lobes ; the median pair widely separated, 

 broad and with a deep subapical notch on each side, the second pair bilobed. 

 Between the median lobes is a pair of small gland spines ; between the median and 

 second lobes a pore prominence with two small projections ; beyond the second lobes 

 a gland spine, a pore prominence with two large pores, two gland spines, two large 

 marginal pores, two gland spines and two pores. Margins of the marginal pores 

 heavily chitinised. Dorsal ducts extremely minute, arranged in three irregular areas 

 .somewhat variable in number. Circumgenital pores in five groups of 6-13 pores. 



Notes. — The specimens recorded from Japan were included by Kuwana in Lepido- 

 saphes ulmi {=Mytilaspis pomorum) along with specimens really referable to that 

 species and others (from orchid) belonging to a species that I shall not here consider 

 because of the scantiness of the material. While L. tubulorum is indeed quite similar 

 to L. ulmi, it is readily separable by the small size and the arrangement of the dorsal 

 ducts. 



Fig. 6. Lepidosaphes japonica, Kuwana : pygidium. 



Lepidosaphes japonica (Kuwana) (fig. 6). 



1902. Mytilaspis pomorum var. japonica, Kuwana, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3). 

 3:80. 



From Abies fir ma, Japan. 



I have at hand the types and type material of this species. It cannot be regarded 

 as having any connection with L. ulmi. being in fact a very distinct species. 

 I present the following notes. 



