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one nearly half-way to the penultimate segment; the ventral spines are 
shorter and just laterad of the corresponding dorsal spine. Dorsal 
pores in three rows; 1st (at first interlobular incision) usually 2; 2nd, 
about 8; 5rd, about 4 and near the penultimate segment a group of 3-5. 
Median group of circumgenital gland-orifices 0—4; anterior lateral, 
4—9: posterior lateral, 3—7. Accompanying the groups are peculiar 
chitinous bands or folds of the body-wall. Anal orifice embraced by 
extended inner margins of the median lobes. Immediately anterior 
from the median and second lobes, the segment is thicker and 
darker brown. 
Remarks: Infests grape-vines, having a pecuhar habit of 
arranging themselves in longitudinal rows on the stem of the 
host. Not common in Ohio, there being only two infested loeali- 
ties reported as yet. 
Comstockiella sabalis (Comstock). 
Rie 2 5n 
Aspidiotus ? sabalis Comst., 2nd Rep. Dep. Corn. Univ., p. 67 (1883)- 
Comstockiella sabalis Ckll. Check. List, p. 335 (1896). 
Scale of female: Approximately circular, snowy white, 1.5—2 mm. 
broad, exuviae covered, prominent. 
Scale of male: Similar to female scale in color, elongated, more 
convex. 
Female: There are no lobes or plates; the margin of the segment 
is rather deeply notched. The female has rudimentary antennae of 
about two joints and is viviparous. Near the edge of the segment are 
five very long spines and two similar ones on the penultimate segment. 
Beginning at the meson on the ventral surface are four small spines 
equidistant extending to the penultimate segment, which itself bears 
two. There are also four orifices in two rows extending anteriorly 
near the mesal notch. There are six groups of circumgenital gland- 
orifices, anterior lateral, 4-6; intermediate, 5-7; posterior lateral, 8-15. 
The dorsal pores are very small, arranged in six cephalo-caudal lines. 
Male: Yellow, wingless, with short, spindle-shaped antennae. 
Remarks: This Coccid was placed provisionally in the 
genus Aspidiotus by Comstock in his Second Cornell Report. 
Found by the author on Sabal Palmetto in the O. S. U. Conserva- 
tory, at Columbus, Ohio. 
Genus CHHRYSOMPHALUS <Ashm. 
[Type, Ch. aonidum (Linn.) ] 
The members of this genus favor the Neotropical regions, 
aithough one species is common.in Ohio and thrives in spite of 
