126 LECANIUM XIGEUM. 



tules to claw (Fig. 5, c) long, and mucli dilated at base 

 and apex. 



Long, 3-4 mm. 



Habitat. On Heliconia metaJlica * at tlie Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, which is the only record of 

 the occurrence of the species in this country. 



Distribution. In Europe at Paris, and Florence, 

 Italy ; India and Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, 

 Sandwich Islands, Demerara, and Brazil. 



LECANIUM OLEJK (Bernard). 

 (PL LVII, figs. 1-13.) 



Ghermes oleae, Bernard ; Mem. d'Hist. Nat. Acad., 



108, pi. ii, fig. 25 (1782). 

 Lecaniumpalmse (Haw., 1812), Cockerell and Parrott ; 



The Industrialist, 1899, p. 163. 

 Coccus testudo (Curtis), "Kuricola;" Gard. Chron., 



iii, 443, with fig. (1843). 

 Ghermes cy cadis, Boisduval; Essai sur 1'Ent. Horti- 



cole, p. 323 (1867). 



Lecanium oleae (Bernard), Signoret; Essai, p. 270. 

 Sernardia oleae (Ashmead), Cockerell ; Trans. Am. 



Ent. Soc., xx, 54 (1893). 

 Neobernardia oleae, Cockerell ; Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 



xx, 54 (1893). 

 Saissetia oleae (Bernard), Cockerell; Ent. Student, 



vol. ii, p. 31. 



Old adult female (figs. 1, 2) brownish-black, rarely 

 quite black, short ovate, being usually a little longer 

 than broad, high convex, with a very strongly-pro- 

 nounced dorsal, and two lateral carinae forming the 

 letter H ; surface more or less shiny, irregularly and 

 coarsely rugose, the rugosities in many parts forming 



* Green, < Ent. Mo. Mag.,' s.s., vol. viii, p. 71 (1897). 



