104 CLASSIFICATION OF THE ALEYRODID^. 



A. howardi (Quaintance), Tech. Ser. 12, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 91 (1907). 

 (Cuba; Florida.) 



A. interrogationis (Bemis), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 27, p. 510 (1904). (Cali- 

 fornia.) 



V Genus NEOMASKELLIA Quaintance and Baker. 



(Tech. Ser. 27, Pt. I, PI. XXXIV, figs. 1-8.) 



Species of the Genus Neomaskellia. 



N. comata (Maskell), Trans. New Zealand In.st., vol. 28, p. 426, (1895). (Fiji.) 

 N. bergii (Signoret), Ann. Soc. Ent. France (4), vol. 8, p. 395 (1867). (Isle o( 

 Mauritius; Java; Fiji; Levuka; Rena; Manila, Philippine Islands. 

 Syn. : sacchari Maskell. 



Genus ALEUROPARADOXTJS n. gen. 

 (PL XXXIX, fi-s. 1-4; PL XLVI. fu. 2.) 



Pupa case medium in size, elliptic in outline, margin toothed, the 

 wax tubes only moderately developed ; submarginal area not separated 

 from dorsal disk; just within margin a series of papilla-like pores and 

 dorsum with numerous large irregular pores; tracheal folds present, 

 terminating on margin in a comb of teeth; wax secretion brittle 

 glass-like rods from the submarginal papillge and a secretion from the 

 dorsal pores. Vasiform orifice subcordate or triangular, the opor- 

 culum similar in outline, obscuring the lingula. 



Adult with a single flexure in radial sector of forewing and no spur 

 of media. Antennge seven-segmented; III the longest; distal seg- 

 ments subequal. Sexes nearly equal in size. 



Type, iridescens Bemis. 



Species of the Genus Aleurof.vradoxus. 

 A. iriderxens (Bemis), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. ^x,l. 27, p. 487 (1904). (California.) 

 Genus ASTEROCHITON MaskeU.' 

 (PL XLII, figs. 1-15; PL XLVII, fig. 2.) 



Pupa case medium to small in size, elliptic, usually elevated from 

 the leaf by a pahsade of white wax ; color variable, ranging from whit- 

 ish to dark brown; margin of case toothed, the wa:x tubes moderately 

 developed; submargmal area not separated from dorsal disk; sub- 

 marginal ai'ea with a row of, or a number of, large papillce or pores; 

 thoracic tracheal folds rarely distinguishable; usually a distinct 

 furrow from vasiform orifice to caudal margin of case; wax secretion 

 a series of brittle, glassy rods from dorsal papilUij or pores an(] a 



• Maskell erected this genus with his lecanioides as type and placed it in the Coccidse. He later described 

 a species, papilli/er, indicating that his lecanioides was in part a synonym of this. The name lecanioides, 

 however, should have been used lor the species. We have examined the type of papiltifer in the Maskell 

 collection and find the species to be nothing other than vaporariorum Westwood. This latter species, 

 therefore, becomes the type of the genus. 



