102 CLASSIFICATION OF THE ALEYRODID^. 



usually protruding considerably beyond orifice, ligulate, its protruding 

 extremity knobbed and setose. 



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

 media. Antenn£c of seven segments, of which the third is the longest ; 

 segment VII considerably longer than IV, V, or VI. 



Type, neplirolepidis Quaintance. 



Species of the Genus Aleurotulus. 



A. nephrolepidis (Quaintance), Tech. Ser. 8, Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 29 



(1900). (Pennsylvania, in Conservatory.) 

 Syn. : extr aniens Bemis. 

 A.Jilidum (Goeldi), Mittheil. echweiz. ent. Ges., vol. 7, p. 248 (1886). (Brazil; 



Rio de Janeiro; Kew Gardens.) 



Genus ALEUBOCANTHUS n. gen. 

 (PL XXXIX, figs. 9-11; PI. XLVI, fig. 3.) 



Pupa case medium in size, subeUiptic in outline, usually dark brown 

 or black in color; margin of case toothed, the wax tubes very prom- 

 inent; submarginal area not separated from dorsal disk; dorsum 

 without papiUse or pores, though bearing many heavily chitinized 

 spines variously arranged; tracheal folds usually not discernible, 

 though evident in a few species; wax secretion usually present as a 

 narrow fringe from marginal wax tubes. Vasiform orifice smaU, 

 rounded or subcordate in outline, situated on a tubercle-hke projec- 

 tion of dorsum; operculum similar in shape and almost entirely filling 

 it, obscuring the lingula. 



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

 media; wings usually blotched or shaded. Males much smaller than 

 females. 



Type, spimferus Quaintance. 



Species of the Genus Aleurocanthus. 



A. bambusae (Peal), Joiu-n. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 72, p. 85 (1903). (India.) 



A. banhsix (Maskell), Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 28, p. 423 (1895). (Aus- 

 tralia.) 



A. calophylU (Kotinsky), Bui. 2, Div. Ent. Board Comm. Agr. & Forestry, Hawaii, 

 p. 98 (1907). (Fiji.) 



A. citricolus (Newstead), Mitteil. aus dem zool. Mus. in Berlin, vol. 5, pt. 2, p. 173 

 (1911). (East Africa.) 



A. hirsutus (JMaskell), Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 28, p. 434 (1895). (Aus- 

 tralia.) 



A. nubilans (Buckton), Indian Mus. Notes, vol. 5, p. 36 (1900). (India.) 



A. pipcris (Maskell), Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 28, p. 438 (1895). (Ceylon.) 



A. spini/erus (Quaintance), Canad. Ent., vol. 34, p. 63 (1902). (Java.) 

 "■A. spinoms (Kuwana), Pomona Joum. Ent., vol. 3, no. 4, p. 626 (1911). 



A. signalus (Maskell), Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 28, p. 447 (1895). (Aus- 

 tralia.) 



A. voeltzkowi (Newstead), Quarterly Joum. Liverpool, vol. 3, p. 12 (1908). (Mada- 

 gascar.) 



