322 Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell on 



II. — Tiro new Coccida? from Massachusetts. 



Lecanium (Eulecanium) Kingii, sp. n. 



? (after producing young). — Length 5, breadth 3, height 

 2^ millirn. 



With an obscure dorsal keel. Shiny, dark chestnut-brown, 

 irregularly wrinkled and pitted. Marginal area punctured, 

 but not plaited. General appearance much like L. persicce. 



Skin (after boiling) chitinous, light yellowish brown, with 

 scattered small round gland-spots, which are larger and more 

 numerous near the margin. Marginal spines very few, 

 minute, simple. Anal plates with their outer sides about 

 equal. Antenna? and legs small and pale. Femur rather 

 short, much shorter than tibio-tarsus ; tarsus nearly as long- 

 as tibia ; claw long, curved only at end; digitules all filiform . 

 Antenna? 6-segmented, formula 3 6 2 1 (4 5) ; 3 very long, 

 (about 93 /a/a), longer than 4, 5, and 6 together, constricted 

 near its end ; 2 about as long as broad and much less than 

 half the length of 3 ; 6 about as long as 4 + 5. 



Hab. Lawrence, Mass., June 14, 1898, on bark of Vac- 

 cinium corymbosum, L. (G. B. King, no. 32). 



This species outwardly resembles L. persicce, but the an- 

 tenna; are quite different. I have not seen Goethe's 

 L. vaccinii-macrocarpum j but that cannot be the present 

 insect, as it is said to bo very small and light brown. Goethe 

 describes the eggs, so his specimens cannot have been imma- 

 ture. I wrote to Mr. Goethe concerning L. vaccinii-macro- 

 carpum, and he replies from Geisenheim, June 25, 1898, 

 that it can no longer be procured — " Upon the plants in our 

 possession the Lecanium has disappeared. I wrote to the 

 Botanic Garden at Karlsruhe, but there this species has quite 

 died out." A couple of sketches kindly sent by Mr. Goethe 

 indicate a different species from L. Kingii, apparently with a 

 7-segmented antenna. 



I am glad to name the above species after Mr. King, in 

 recognition of his good work among the Coccida? of Massa- 

 chusetts. Just recently he has sent me three other interesting- 

 species, which are new to the fauna of that State, viz. : — 



Eriococcus quercus (Comst.). — On wdiite oak, Andover, 

 Mass., June 28, 1898. 



Eriococcus azalece, Comst. — On Crataegus coccinea, Methuen, 

 Mass., June 21, 1898. 



Kermes pubescens, Bogue. — On white oak [Quercus alba), 

 Lawrence, Mass. 



