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broad, 6 high, with black spots, and viewed with a hand lens, the scale 
is seen to be be covered with minute black specks. Newly hatched 
larvae dirty-gray.” 
Remarks: First found in Ohio at Wooster, by Prof. Wil- 
mon Newell. 
KERMES KINGII CkIll. 
Bass ae 
K. kingii Ckll., Am. Mag. N. H., (7), ii, p. 330 (1898). 
k. kingii Ckll., Can. Ent., xxxi, p. 189 (1899). 
Kk kingii Cll; Psyehe, ix, p. 44 (1900). 
K. kingii King, Psyche, ix, pp. 80, 85 (1900). 
Female seale longer than broad; about 5mm. in length, 4—4.5 mm. 
proad, and 3.5mm. high. Almost invariably attaching itself in or at 
the forks of twigs, or at base of leaf petioles. Color bright ochreous 
or sometimes lighter, marbled with a more reddish tint, sometimes 
almost terra-cotta, with pale longitudinal dorsal band crossed at 
segments by short more or less broken dark lines; otherwise the 
segmentation is very indistinct. Small dark spots not prominent and 
seattered rather promiscuously; numerous minute specks discernable 
with hand-lens. 
Remarks: Found by the author at Pomeroy, O., Aug. 28, 
1903, on Q. rubrum, and later on the same host at Salem, and on 
Q. velutina, associated with AK. pettiti Ehrh., at Lisbon. The 
specimens from Q. rubrum, at Salem, are much lighter in color 
than those found on Q. velutina, at Lisbon, O. 
KERMES PHTTITI Ehrh. 
Fig. 69. 
K. pettiti Ehrh., Can. Ent., xxxi, p. 7 (1899). 
Kk. pettiti Ckil., Psyche, ix, p. 45 (1900). 
Kk. pettiti King, Psyche, ix. p, 81 (1900). 
The original description from Can. Ent., xxxi, p. 7, follows. 
“Kermes pettiti, n. sp. 
“Female scale about 4mm. broad, 3mm. long and 3mm. high, 
dark-purplish-brown; some individuals of a lighter color and marbled 
with brown. A distinct longitudinal groove on the meson indicated 
by a dark line. Surface without minute black specks. Segmentation 
not very distinct, indicated by rows of black spots plainly seen through 
a pocket lens. Ventral surface where it touches the bark, flattened 
and more or less covered with a yellow secretion. Beak very promi- 
nent. When removed from twig, scale leaves a whitish powder. When 
boiled in KOH, derm colorless except numerous brown spots with dark 
centers scattered over the dorsum. Antennae very obscurely 6-jointed, 
joint three apparently longest. Legs very small and stout. Tibia as 
