1913] 



Wheelrr — A Giant Coccid from Guatemala 



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a lens minutely wrinkled. The color of the dorsum is dull Naples 

 or pale brownish yellow in the palest individuals. Under a lens 

 magnifying 20 diameters the surface is slightly roughened and 

 covered with minute brown dots, which in some specimens fuse 

 to form irregular brown or black blotches. In many specimens 

 these blotches have in turn fused till the whole mid-dorsal region 



Fig. 1. Neolecanium sallei Signoret, natural size. 



is dark-colored. The accompanying photographs give a good 

 idea of the form of this Coccid and of the way it clings to the 

 Erytkrina twigs. 



Neolecanium sallei does not seem to be a common species. 

 Though I had occasion to examine a great number of Erythrina 

 trees in various localities in Costa Rica and Guatemala, the single 

 tree at San Lucas Toliman was the onlv one on which it was found. 



