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scale is quite different. C. Aspidistrae is the type of the 
subgenus Z/emichionaspis, Ckll. 
(3.) Lecanium viride Green. Ent. Mo. Mag., 1889, p. 
248. S. Paulo; on coffee. The discovery of this species 
in Brazil is of great importance. It is well known in 
Ceylon, where, according to Mr. E. E. Green, it «occurs 
on various trees, including Cinchona, orange, Gardenia, 
etc; but it more especially affects the coffee tree, its 
connection with which has been so disastrous that in 
many parts of the island it has been necessary to aban- 
don the cultivation of this product. 
The scale may. be known by its small size, oval 
form, and green color. The Brasilian specimens are smaller 
than those reported from Ceylon, and in having the 
third joint of the antenna longer thau the fourth, differ 
from Mr. Green’s description of viride. I possess, howerer, 
some Ceylon examples of viride, sent by Mr. Green 
himself, and they agree in all essential points with the 
Brazilian form, and do not have the fourth antennal 
joint longest. The skin is beset. with many large gland- 
pits. 
(4) Aspidiotus punicae, Ckil., var.—S. Paulo, on a 
small cultivated palm. This is the palm-inhabiting variety 
of the West Indian A. punicac. It belongs, I am now 
persuaded, to the subgenus Hemiberlesia rather than to 
Diaspidiolus. From A. cydoniae it differs by the pale 
exuviae, and the iobes of the: end of the body not being 
notched on the inner side. There are four groups of 
ventral glands. The speciinens are badly affected by a 
fungus. 
Mesilla, New Mexico, U. S. A. Sept. 9, 1897. 
