42 THE COCCIDAE 



Asterolecaniinae for the Lecanodiaspidites of Targioni Tozzetti and 

 the Lecanococcidae of Maskell, is worthy of note. 



Berlese and Leonard!, '98, in their "Notizie intorno alle 

 cocciniglie americane che minaciano la frutticultura europea" 

 recognize eight groups, tribes as they designate them, but with 

 subfamily suffixes, which are arranged in the following order : 

 Monophlebinae, Porphyrophorinae, Coccinae, Hemicoccinae, 

 Ortheziinae, Asterolecaniinae, Lecaninae, and Diaspinae. In a 

 table for the separation of the subfamilies two additional tribes, 

 Brachyscelinae placed between the Lecaninae and Coccinae and 

 Idiococcinae placed before the Monophlebinae, are recognized. 

 This arrangement does not differ from that of Cockerell. The five 

 subgroups of their tribe Diaspinae which are recognized by 

 Leonardi in his "Generi e specie di Diaspiti," the first part of 

 which was printed early in 1898, are adopted in the "Notizie" 

 and arranged in the same order: Parlatoriae, Aspidioti, Leucas- 

 pides, Diaspides, and Mytilaspides. 



Green, '96, in the first volume of his "Coccidae of Ceylon" 

 proposes eleven subfamilies arranged as follows in an ascending 

 order : Conchaspinae, Diaspinae, Lecaniinae, Hemicoccinae, 

 Dactylopiinae, Tachardiinae, Coccinae, Idiococcinae, Brachy- 

 sceliinae, Ortheziinae, and Monophlebinae. In remarking upon 

 the classification of. Cockerell, he states, ' ' I should be inclined to 

 include the Porphyrophorinae with the Monophlebinae .... nor 

 does the separation of the Asterolecaniinae from the Coccinae (as 

 generally constituted) seem necessary-" In volume four of this 

 work, published in 1909, Green, however, adopts the subfamily 

 Asterolecaniinae and places it between the Dactylopiinae and 

 Tachardiinae. This is the first recognition of a subfamily 

 Tachardiinae which includes the genus Tachardia, the lac insects. 

 The name of Conchaspis also appears in this list of subfamilies for 

 the first time, erected to include the genus Conchaspis described in 

 1893. It is here associated by Green with his subfamily Diaspinae. 



In a series of tables for the identification of genera, Cockerell 

 in 1899 shows eight subfamilies arranged in the following order: 

 Ortheziinae, Monophlebinae, Margarodinae, Conchaspinae, Coccinae, 

 Tachardiinae, Lecaniinae, and (Diaspinae). The name Mar- 

 garodinae is substituted for Porphyrophorinae and the subfamily 

 divided into two tribes, Margarodini and Xylococcini. The sub- 

 family Coccinae includes five tribes : Brachyscelini, Asterolecaniini, 

 Kermesiini, Eriococcini, and Dactylopiini. It will be noted that 



