14 On Two new Coccidse from North America. 



which is not quite so long as half the greatest diameter of the 

 larva. There are also six short bristles proceeding- from the 

 region of the anus. 



Antennae six-jointed : joint 2 shortest, 3 longest ; 4, o, and 

 6 subequal, but of these 6 is a little the longer. 



Hub. On Dalea Jormosa ; this plant kindly identified for me 

 "by Prof. E. O. Wooton. The scales were discovered on the 

 Little or Tortugas Mountain, in the Mesilla Valley, New 

 Mexico, on the occasion of a meeting of the New Mexico 

 Agricultural College Field Club, May 12th, 1894. Although 

 the plant is very common all over the mountain, I found the 

 scales only on two plants, but on these they abounded. 



The species is entirely distinct from Ceroplastodes niveus } 

 though clearly congeneric with it. 



Lecamum phoradendri, sp. n. 



Adult ? . — Length 3^- millim., breadth 3£, height 1. 

 Almost exactly circular in outline, flattened, only moderately 

 convex, shiny, moderately wrinkled and pitted. So dark 

 brown as to seem black, varying to lighter brown, with a broad 

 dark brown ring and a dark brown 

 elongated central patch. Immature 

 specimens are greenish. 



After boiling in soda the female &•■ 

 appears brownish, with a conspicuous 

 broad pale margin ; derm granulose j 

 margin with few very small spines ; 

 lateral incisions with one large blunt 

 spine and a rudimentary one. Anal . . . ' 



plates broad, together forming a in situ, nat. size. 



square. Lower lip two-jointed. 



Coxa with a long hair ; trochanter with a long hair. 

 Tarsal knobbed hairs ordinary, but unequal, one longer and 

 stouter than the other. 



Claw small ; digitules ordinary, well-knobbed, extending 

 beyond claw. 



Antennae seven-jointed : joint 3 longest ; 4 and 2 about 

 equal, or 4 perhaps a little the longer ; 5, 6, and 7 subequal, 

 but 7 shortest; a false joint in distal half of 3 ; 2 and 4 

 each emitting a long hair on inner side. Last joint with 

 several hairs. 



2 scale. — Glassy, ordinary, 2 millim. long, 1 broad. 



Bab. On Phoradendron, in Arizona ; sent from Tucson, 

 Arizona, by Prof. J. W. Tourney. The scales are abundant 

 both on the leaves and stems in the specimen sent. 



