1918] CoccidcB of Cuba 163 



Botanica de la Universidad de Habana, (Habana), Santiago de 

 las Vegas, Jardin Botanica del Segundo Ensenanda de Habana, 

 (Habana)'. Santiago de Cuba. Dates, Jan. 27, 1909; June 4, 

 1908; Aug., 1904; Feb. 2, 1909; July 20, 1908; Sept. 24, 1907; 

 May 13, 1908; Nov. 16, 1908. Collectors, J. S. H., W. T. H., 

 S. P. S. 



Aspidiotus subsimilis var anonae n. vr. 

 Hosts, Milliflores verbenacia, Cinnamonicum zeylanicum 

 Breyn, Maclura tinctoria Don., Rose, Spondias purpurea, 

 Lonchocarpus latifolius Kth.; Magnolia grandiflora, Faberna. 

 (Anona sp., Mangifera cambodiana and Loquat — Records of 

 Dr. C. L. Marlatt, Bur. Ent. U. S. D. A. See note following 

 description.) Localities, Jardin Botanica de la Universidad de 

 Habana (Habana), Jardin Botanica del Instituto Segunda 

 Ensenada de la Habana (Habana). Dates, 1907; Jan. 27, 1909; 

 Feb. 21, 1909; 1910. Collectors, J. S. H., W. T. H., (E. R. 

 Sasscer. See note following description.) 



Description.— Scale of Female: 1 to 1.9 mm. in diameter; irregularly 

 circular; thin; tough; slightly convex; very inconspicuous, due m 

 part to the fact that the insect is partly mining in its habit as particles 

 of thin bark usually extend over the scale; dorsal shed skin conspicuous; 

 located on bark of host; no dot and ring present. Scale of Male: Not 

 known. Adult Female: Length ranges from 0.8 mm. to 1 mm. and 

 width from 0.8 mm. to 1.1 mm., usually wider than long, type specimen 

 1 mm. wide, 1.12 mm. long, ^-ellow, of usual fonn, circumgenital pores 

 wanting. Nearest A. subsimilis Ckll. and A. coursetia Mar. Anal Plate: 

 In shape rather sharply triangular, retracted within the scale body, two 

 broad chitinized areas extending from the posterior tip well up into the 

 pygidium where thev gradually disperse. One pair of lobes placed close 

 together, broader at base, usually notched on both sides near the tip, 

 tip rounded; chitinized processes equal to two-fifths the length of the 

 lobe extending up into the pygidium from the mesal portion of the base 

 of each lobe and from the opposite of each lobe is a similar process but 

 lacking a little of being half as long as the preceding. Incisions between 

 median lobes shallow, second and third incisions shallow also; lateral 

 margins of second and third incisions bordered by strongly chitinized 

 thickened processes; mesal process of second incision greatly elongated 

 and abruptly terminating in a globular swelling or club; lateral pro- 

 cesses about one-third as long and only slightly swollen; chitmous 

 processes of third incision sub-equal, slightly swollen anteriorally and 

 both usually curved laterad. Plates small, simple, inconspicuous, one 

 arising from each side of the mouth of the second incision, two mesad 

 and two laterad of the third incision; of the two last mentioned the 

 outer one is very weak and slender; two or three additional plates on the 



