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Aspidiotus articulatus var. simplex (de Ch.), Pr. Soc. Amic. 

 Scien., p. 20 (1889). 



Habitat. — Africa, E. and W. ; Brazil ; Barbados, West In- 

 dies; Demerara; England (in greenhouses) ; Florida; Mexico; 

 Nicaragua ; Panama. 



On Artocarpiis sp. ; Celastrus laurinus; Chrysophyllum ; 

 Citrus ; cocoanut ; coffee ; Cordyline terminalis ; Dictyospermum 

 album ; Ficus ; Gardenia ; guava ; laurel ; mango ; " muniste ; " 

 oleander; olive; palm; " palo tincto " (logwood); Pandanus; 

 pawpaw ; rose ; tamarind ; Vitis vinifera. 



This species is a very common and almost characteristic one 

 of the West Indies, occurring also on the adjacent mainland. 

 It is known from East and West Africa, and has in South 

 Africa related species or varieties which would indicate, as 

 early pointed out by Professor Cockerell, that Africa is its 

 place of origin. De Charmoy's variety simplex, from Mau- 

 ritius, is apparently a description of immature specimens, and 

 hence the absence of paragenitals. 



2. PSEUDAONIDIA ARTICULATUS var. CELASTRI Mask. 

 Aspidiotus articulatus var. celastri Mask., Trans. N. Z. Inst., xxix, 

 p. 297 (1897). 



Habitat. — S. Africa. 



On Celastrus laurinus and an undetermined plant. 



Maskell's variety celastri is a large-sized articulatus with a 

 greater development of plates and dorsal pores, as indicated 

 from study of material corresponding closely with Maskell's 

 description received from Lounsbury- (1897), from Mitchell's 

 Pass, South Africa. Maskell's material came from the Cape 

 of Good Hope, and infested Celastrus laurinus. 



3. PSEUDAONIDIA LOUNSBURYI, n. sp. 



Habitat. — S. Africa (Ourling), C. P. Lounsbury, Coll. 



On Mesembryanthcmum edule. 



This new species is evidently closely allied to articulatus, 

 but the large lateral spine on the anal plate is replaced by a 

 third normal lobe, and the paragenitals are wanting. This 

 may be, therefore, the parent species of the group, as it di- 

 verges least from, the normal Aspidiotus type. 



4. PSEUDAONIDIA DUPLEX Ckll. 



'Aspidiotus thece Mask., Ind. Mus. Notes, 11, p. 59 (1891). Name 

 preoccupied by Aspidiotus thcce Green (iSgo) =^ Howardia 

 biclavis ( Comst. ) . 



Aspidiotus duplex Ckll., Psyche, vii, Suppl. i, p. 20 (1896). 



