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yellow, or sometimes quite coppery yellow. Young scales 

 round and very white. 



? . — Shape ordinary ; no circumgenital glands, but 

 numerous dorsal lubular glands, mucii as in A. Osbeckice; 

 only two lobes, these wide apart, upright, large, rounded, the 

 edges obscurely crenulate ; anal oriMce circular, close to the 

 bases of the lobes ; the usual incisions (two on each side), 

 with thickened edges ; spines very small ; squames large, 

 narrow, but branched, extending a little beyond the lobes ; 

 two squames between the lobes, about eleven on each side 

 beyond the lobe, placed close together. 



Aspidiotus Crawii^ Ckll, 



Mexico : Frontera, on fruit of some palm ; scales smaller 

 than usual {Townsend). 



Aspidiotus Greenii, Ckll. 



Mexico : El Cuyo del Chico Sapote, Tabasco, June 18, 

 1897, on le.'ves of banana {Townsend)', on a palm, Mexico 

 city, Dec. 6, 1397 {Townsend). 



Chrtsomphalus, Aslim. 

 Chrysomphalus rhizophorce, sp. n. 



Mexico: Tabasco, El Rio Polo, June 19, 1897, on leaves . 

 of mangrove {Townsend). 



? . — Scale about H millim. diam., circular to oval, slightly 

 convex, shining sepia-brown, sometimes pale coffee-colour, 

 sometimes darker, or even purplish brown ; exuviae black, but 

 covered by a dirty white film, leaving the first skin only 

 visible. 



$ . — Yellowish ; shape ordinary ; four groups of circum- 

 genital glands, anterior laterals of 7, posterior laterals 5 in a 

 row ; three pairs of low broad lobes, more or less inclined to 

 be serrate, closely resembling those of C. Bowreyi ; median 

 lobes separated by a moderate interval, obliquely truncate, 

 with rounded corners ; plates very inconspicuous ; margin 

 beyond the lobes serrulate, with three or four small promin- 

 ences, not so large as those oi Boioreyi; beyond this serrula- 

 tion there is quite a large spine ; processes at the bases of the 

 lobes well developed, only two pairs of long ones, those of the 

 first and second interlobular intervals ; the usual pair at the 

 inner bases of the median lobes, about half as long as the 

 long processes ; the process mesad of the second long one 



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