350 



PSYCHE. 



[April iSgg. 



Lecanhim fallufior, Ckll. & King, n. sp. 



? Scale. 3 mm. long, 2 broad, i4 to 2 

 high, very convex, very shiny, wrinkled; 

 light yellowish-brown or ochreous, paler at 

 the sides than dorsally. This is a very much 

 paler scale than /?<?/f^e>-(, and when boiled in 

 caustic potash it becomes very pale and trans- 

 parent, vihWe fleic/ieri remains dark brown. 



Antennae. Six-segmented, the segments 

 measuring as follows in |i (i.) 34-51. (2.) 

 28-31. (3.) 42-45. (4.) 34. (5.) 23-31. (6.) 

 34~4-- Ml"- King reports a 7-segmented an- 

 tenn.i, with the last three segments measur- 

 ing respectively 12, 16 and 38 y.. This agrees 

 well enough with fle/c/ieri, which I find 

 always to have 7 segments, the last three 

 14-20, 14-17 and 39-42 |i. There is also this 

 in common with ^etclieri, that the second 

 segment is shorter than the first or third. 



Legs. The different legs are similar in 

 type, but the tibiae and tarsi are variable. 

 Four legs measured gave as follows — (ji.) 



(l-) (2-) 



87. 85. 



Femur4-trocha 



Tibia. 



Tarsus 4- claw. 



(3-) 

 87. 



(4.) 

 85- 



The first is an anterior leg. These dimen- 

 sions are very different from those of L. 

 Jleicheri, as will be seen by comparing the 

 statistics given below. 



Lecaniiim f etc her i. Ckll. 



Afttcmiac. (H--) Segments. i. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 



Mass. spn. 36. 34. 45. 42. 20. 17. 42. 



Canadian spu. 42. 31. 48. 37. 14. 14. 39. 



Mass. spn. 

 Canadian ; front leg. 



" middle leg. 



" hind leg. 



" hind leg. 



r-f- Tibia. Tarsus 4- 



\. claw. 



87. 85. 



90. 85. 



96. 93. 



93. 90. 



93- 96- 



The front legs oi fletckeii appear thus to 

 differ appreciably from the other four as 

 regards the coxa and femur. Both coxa and 

 femur of the middle and hind legs are notice- 

 ably longer than in pallidior. 



Lecaniiim ■pallidior vias found by Mr. King 

 at Methuen, Mass., Nov. 15, 1898, on small 

 twigs of Chamaecyparis ihyoides (L). The 

 leaves and small limbs were thickly covered 

 at that date with young larvae. The species 

 belongs, of coiu'se, to Eulecanium. 



TWO NEW COCCIDS FROM 

 BERMUDA. 



In January of this year, the writer in his 

 search for coccids infesting green-house 

 plants, observed a potted plant in one of the 

 conservatories visited, trimmed quite close 

 to its roots, and the remaining stumps well 

 covered with a small clear white scale. The 

 plant in question was recognized at once to 

 be Cycas rcvoluta. Upon enquiry it was 

 learned that this plant was imported from 

 Bermuda last year. Some of the old stems 

 with the coccids were taken for study. One 

 of the species proved to be Aspidiotus hede- 

 rac Vallot, a very common species through 

 the United States, and the other coccid was 



new to the writer, who sent a mount and 

 some of the scales to Prof. Cockerell for 

 determination. He identifies it as Aiilacas- 

 pis elegans Leon. Described as Hoxvardia 

 elegans, and only known hitherto from 

 Portici Italy, on Cycas revoluta. The $ 

 and $ scale are unknown. The species 

 differs from typical Aulacaspis by lacking 

 the circumgenital glands. The occurrence 

 of this species is of much interest and the 

 coccids of Bermuda are almost unknown. 

 There are only two other species known to 

 the writer recorded from those islands, 

 Mylilaspi citricola Pack, on orange and 

 lime trees, and Ckionaspis citri Comst. on 

 orange. Geo. B.King. 



Lau-rence, Mass., Feb. ^7, iStjg. 



