86 LECAXTUM HESPERIDUM, VAK. MIXIMUM. 



the black eye-spots and terminating at the anal lobes. 

 The structural characters are like those of the type, 

 from which it differs only in its small size. 



Long, '75-2*50 mm.; wide, *25-l mm. 



Since publishing my description of this insect in the 

 6 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' (1. c.) I have pre- 

 pared a longer series of specimens, and after a most 

 careful examination I have come to the conclusion 

 that L. minimum is a very small stunted variety or 

 dwarfed form of L. liesperidum. 



My examples were under observation for a period of 

 about twelve months, during which time several 

 generations were produced, but none ever exceeded 

 the measurements given above. The food-plants were 

 Areca and Abutilon, and I have since found it upon 

 palms ; all the plants being cultivated under glass. 



Distribution. Under date 19th November, 1902, 

 Mr. Cockerell writes as follows : " You will be in- 

 terested to hear that I have received Lecanium mini- 

 mum, Newst., from Prof. C. H. T. Townsend, who 

 found it at Colima, Mexico, July 30th, 1902, on a 

 palm. The specimens agree with your description 

 and figures very excellently (specimens 2-J- mm. long 

 have produced many larvse), except that I do not find 

 the tarsus quite so short as you say (anterior legs have 

 tibia 75 //, tarsus 51 /u)." I am under the impression 

 that Mr. Cockerell has recorded this variety from the 

 United States, but in indexing my papers I have 

 either overlooked the record or I am mistaken. 



LECANIUM LOXGULUM (Douglas). 

 (PI. L, figs. 11-14.) 



Lecanium longulum, Douglas; Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 



xxiv, p. 97 (1887). 

 Lecanium angustatum, Douglas (nee Signoret) ; 



Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxiv, p. 25 (1887). 



