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A. (Chrysomphalus) minor Berl.— 9 scale brown, convex, very little over 1 mm. diam. 
? yellow, three pairs of lobes, serrated plates; a couple of long plates laterad 
of third lobe, after the manner of dictyospermi; four small groups of ventral 
glands, not over 4 to a group. On leaves of Pandanus, in hort. Italy. (Riv. 
Pat. Veget., 1V, 346.) This seems to me to be identical with 4. dictyospermi 
var. jamaicensis; if not, it is at least extremely close to it. 
A. (Aspidiolus s. str.) myrsine Sign.—Allied to nerii. On Myrsina retusa in the hot- 
houses of the Luxembourg. 
A. (Aspidiotus 8. str.) nerii Bouché.— Q seale flat, whitish; exuvie exposed, central 
or nearly 80, dull orange yellow. 9 with three pairs of lobes, scale-like plates; 
four groups of ventral glands, caudolaterals about 7, cephalolaterals about 9. 
Ou oleander, Melia, Yucca, and a variety of other garden plants; very widely 
distributed, but not universal; very rare in the West Indies, only once found, 
viz: On olive in the Botanic Gardens, Grenada, Elsewhere in the neotropical 
region, Lataste found it at Santiago, Chili, while it occurs in several localities 
in Mexico. It is common enough in the United States. Berlese appears to 
have demonstrated what was before suspected, that nerti is but a variety of 
A. hedera. 
var. limonii Sign.— 2 with the end of the abdomen more elongated, and the plates 
larger, than in the type. Found on lemons in Europe. Also in the Sandwich 
Islands. (Essai, 1869, p. 125.) 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) palmarum Bouché.—Q scale white, circular; exuviw reddish- 
yellow. Grouped glands present. On palms. Europe. (Nomen seminadum. ) 
A. (suby.?) pandani Sign.— Q scale blackish-brown, center whitish. Grouped glands 
present. On Pandanus utilis. (Essai, 1869, p. 131.) 
A, (Diaspidiotus) perniciosus Comst.—United States (Ala., Ariz., Cal., Del., Fla., Ga., 
Idaho, Ind., La., Mass., Md., N.J., N. Y., N. M., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., Va., Wash- 
ington, W. Va.), British Columbia, Australia, Sandwich Islands. (For full 
particulars see Bull. 3, n. s., Div. Ent. The San Jose scale; by L. O. Howard 
and C. L. Marlatt.) 
A species perhaps allied to perniciosus, but possibly new, was found by Prof. C. H. 
T. Townsend on Irazrinus at Brownsville, Texas. The scales were attacked by 
some parasite, and it proved impossible to satisfactorily describe or figure the 
species. The scale is more convex than perniciosus, the exuviw are dark; the 
median lobes are quite elongated. 
A. (Aspidiotus s.str.?) phormii de Breme.—Qscale white, circular; exnvie central. 
On Phormium tenaxr in Switzerland. (Signoret, Essai, 1869, p. 130.) 
A. (Hemiberlesia) rapax Comst.— 9 scale convex, gray, appearing yellowish from the 
contained insect; exuvie toward one side, marked by a dark brown or black 
spot. Q with one pair of large lobes; branched plates; no groups of ventral 
glands. On various trees, etc.; nearly cosmopolitan. 
A. (Chrysomphalus) spherioides Ckll.—Q seale circular, rather over 1 mm. diam. ; 
moderately convex; dark reddish-brown, with the part covering the exuviwe 
indicated by a pale raised ring; when rubbed the exuviwe appear shining 
black. Q with three pairs of lobes; five groups of ventral glands, caudolat- 
erals, 3; cephalolaterals, 4; median, 3. Said to be on New Zealand flax. 
Louisiana, 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) spinosas Comst.— 9 scale circular, very light brown or dirty 
white; exuvise central and covered. 4 groups of ventral glands, of not over 6 
each; median lobes prominent; plates more or less notched; spines large. On 
camellia. Washington, D.C. 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) vriescie Sign.—Allied to nerii; scale more elongated, yellowish 
gray. On Vriescia splendens. ; 
A. (?) osmanthi Vallot, 1829, a white scale with central exuvix, found on Olea fra- 
grans, is at best a nomen seminudum, 
