NOTES ON CALIFORNIA COCCIDiE V 



E. O. ESSIG 



HORTICDLTUKAL COMMISSIONER OF 



VENTURA COUNTY 



Fioriiiia fioriuice var. japonica Kuw 



Female Scale (Fig. 82) — Is a golden brown with a decided ridge 

 running down the middle of the dorsum. In shape it is long and narrow, 

 being 2 mm. long and 1/2 mm. wide. The scale outline containing the body 

 proper is shown in Figures 82, C. and D. The body is very much smaller 

 than the outside scale ; oval to oblong in shape. 



Figure 82. Fiorinia fioriniae var. japonica. 



Pygidium (Fig. 82 B.) — The mesal lobes rather small and rounding, with 

 a small hair or spine on each. A large spine separates each lobe from the 

 secDud pair. The second lobe is divided to form two rather distinct lobes. 

 There is a faint trace of a third divided lobe, but this is very obscure. A 

 large s])iiie separates the second from the supposed third. Four other spines 

 appear on the margin to the first segment, and other spines follow as shown 

 in the figure. There are few tubular spinnerets, in many forms not any show- 

 ing. I'sually there are four or five on each side of the pygidium. The 

 circumgenital glands are all run together in most specimens and it is hard to 

 draw a distinction between the lateral and median group. The approximate 



