Ill] 



SOME SUCKING INSECTS 



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the epidermis beneath the cuticle, as shown by 

 E. O. Schmidt for Aspidiotus (1885). The penulti- 



Fig. 7. Mussel Scale-insect (Mytilaspis pomorum). a, male; 6, foot 

 of male ; c, larva, ventral view ; d, feeler of larva ; e, female, 

 ventral view. After Howard, Yearbook U.S. Dept. Agric. 1904. 

 Magnified, a, c, e x 20 ; &, d x 120. 



mate instar of this sex in which the wing-rudiments 

 are visible externally lies passively beneath the scale, 



