808 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 
? Lecanium nigrum Nieter. 
According to Mr. G. A. Bishop this scale has been observed in 
Bermuda on oleander and hibiscus. It was originally described 
from Ceylon on coffee trees, but has since been recorded in several 
other tropical countries, among them Jamaica and Porto Rico, 
and on various plants, as Mr. Nathan Banks informs me. 
? Ceroplastes Floridensis Com. Figure 180. 
A seale, which may be this species, occurs on the avocado pear, 
loquat, tamarisk, ete. 
Purple Scale. (Mytilaspis citricola Pack.; Comstock, Ann. Report 
Dep. of Agriculture for 1880, p. 321, pl. vii, fig. 1; xx, fig. 3; 
S ’ ’ p) 94S 5) 
xviii, fig. 3. 
FiGuRES 182-1820, a, b,c; 184, 6. Puate XCVI; Ficurss 4, 5, 6, a, a. 
This species, which has long been recognized as occurring in 
Bermuda,* appears to be at present the most abundant and most 
Figure 182.—a, b, females of Purple Scale (Mytilaspis citricola), on twig of 
orange tree; d, free young ; c, white males of Chionaspis citri; e, female 
of the latter; x41g. Phot. by A. H. V., Aug., 1902, from life. 
destructive species on the orange and lemon trees, which it rapidly 
kills. Perhaps it was the species chiefly instrumental in the former 
destruction of the orange trees. See pp. 526, 635. 
Miss Victoria Hayward recently (Aug. 26) sent me by mail a 
number of branches and leaves of the orange, some of which were 
almost completely covered by the living adult and young scales, 
among and over which great numbers of the newly hatched young 
* Glover, Rep. Dep. Agric. for 1856, p. 119, says that it was imported into 
Jacksonville, Fla. in 1855 on lemons from Bermuda. Mr. Saunders (Insects 
Injurious to Fruit, p. 391) also states that this species is supposed to have been 
brought to Florida from Bermuda on lemon plants. 
