142 KEEMES VAEIEGATUS. 



Fig. 3. The same (anterior view). x 4. 



Fig. 4. Antenna of adult female. x 140. 



Fig. 5. Leg of the adult female. x 140. 



Figs. 6, 6 a. Portions of ventral dermis of the adult 



female. X 600. 

 Fig. 6 b. Tabular spinnerets of the adult female. 



x 600. (On the plate the figure 6 is reversed.) 

 Fig. 7. Anal orifice of the adult female. Enlarged. 

 Fig. 8. Larva (ventral). x 100. 

 Fig. 9. Antenna of the larva. x 300. 

 Fig. 10. Leg of the larva. x 300. 

 Fig. 11. Anal extremity of the larva. x 300. 



KEEMES QUEECUS (Linnasus). 

 (PI. F, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 6, 2.) 



Coccus quercus 9 Linnaeus; Syst. Nat., Ed. x, 1758, 



p. 455. 

 Gallinsecte en forme de rein, Reaumur ; Mem. 



Hist. Ins., t. iv, tab. 6, figs. 1-4 (1738). 

 Chermes quercus reni/ormis, Geoff roy ; Hist. Abr. 



Ins., vol. i, p. 508, No. 13 (1762). 

 Kermes reniformis (Reaumur), Signoret; Essai, p. 



307. 

 Kermes quercus (Linn.), Cockerell; Proc. Acad. Nat. 



Sciences of Philadelphia, p. 207 (1899). King; 



Psyche, 1901, pp. 258, 259. King and Reh; 



Sond. a. d. allgemeinen Forst- und Jagd- 



Zeitung, 1901, pp. 1-3. Newstead, Ent. Mo. 



Mag., s.s., xiv, p. 57 (1903). 



Adult female (figs. 1-1 b) more or less reniform, or 

 rarely subglobular; posterior extremity generally 

 depressed or emarginate ; anterior extremity suddenly 

 and very narrowly attenuated, the attenuation usually 

 short and pedunculate. Old examples are either 

 naked and shining, or farinose, with a lateral shield- 

 shaped patch of secretion on either side of the dorsum 



