GENUS BEMISIA. 99 



Species of the Genus Dialeurodoides. 



A. aureus (Maakell), Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 22, p. I?'* (1889); ibidem, 

 vol. 2, p. 215 (1879). (New Zealand.) 



A.fagi (Maskell), Trana. New Zealand Inst., vol. 22, p. 175 (1889). (New Zea- 

 land.) 



A. simplex (Maekell), Tran.s. New Zealand Inst., vol. 22, p. 175 (1889;. (New 

 Zealand.) 



Genus PEALITJS n. gen. 

 (PI. XXXVI, figs. 7-12; PI. XLVI, fig. 5.) 



Pupa case medium in size, elliptic in outline; color variable; mar- 

 gin of case toothed, the wax tubes well developed; submarginal area 

 not separated from dorsal disk; dorsum without papillae or pores; 

 thoracic tracheal folds not discernible, though there is a distinct 

 furrow from vasiform orifice to caudal end of case. Vasiform orifice 

 situated in a pit, ^yhich is more or less pyriform in outline and trans- 

 vei'sely ridged, the outline of the orifice being subrectangular; oper- 

 culum subrcctangular, sliort, filling about half the orifice; lingula 

 short, the distal extremity visible caudad of operculum, flattened 

 and knobbed. Named for the late H. W. Peal. 



Type, maskelli Bemis. 



Species of the Genus Pealius. 



P. bengalensis (Peal), Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 72, p. 70 (1904). (India.) 

 P. hibisci (Kotinsky), Bui. 2, Div. Ent., Board Coram. Agr. & Forestry, Hawaii, 



p. 96 (1907). (Hawaii.) 

 ^P. kelloggi (Bemis), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 499 (1904). (California.) 

 - P. maskelli (Bemis), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 524 (1904). (California.) 



Genus BEMISIA n. gen. 

 (PI. XXXVII, figs. 1-6.) 



Pupa case varying much in size, elliptic or oval in outline, broadest 

 across the thorax; color usually pale yellowish; margin toothed, the 

 wax tubes irregular in size and shape ; submargmal area not separated 

 from dorsal disk; dorsum without papillae or pores; thoracic tracheal 

 folds sometimes faintly visible. There is a distinct furrow present, 

 extending from the vasiform orifice to the caudal extremity of the 

 case. Vasiform orifice triangular, long and narrow; lingula long and 

 less than half covered at the cephalic extremity by the short oper- 

 culum. 



Adult with one flexure in radial sector of forewing and no spur of 

 media. Antennae of seven segments, of which the third is the longest, 

 the remaining distal ones being subequal. Named for Florence E. 

 Bemis. 



Type, inconspicua Quaintance. 

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