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larger than those of the marginal series (Fig. 2D). Marginal pores ar- 

 ranged in a definite single row accompanied by a row of small circular 

 pores (Fig. 2E). Stigmatic depressions marked by numbers of these 

 circular pores which form a series from the margin to the corresponding 

 spiracles. Anal lobes (Fig. 2B) quite prominent, closely united, their 

 median area on the ventral side quite heavily chitinized. Tubular ducts of 

 the type indicated in Fig. 2C. 



Notes : The specimens at hand agree entirely with examples from fig at 

 Tampico, Mexico, and from oleander at quarantine from Mexico. 



Asterolecanium cristatum n. sp. 



Fig. 3. 



Type from Heteromeles arbutifcilia at La Laguna. Also from Jatro- 

 pha canescens ("lomboi") at San Antonio; Celosia floribunda ("bledo'') 

 at San Bartolo and San Jose del Cabo; Tapirira edulis ("ciruela") at San 

 Bartolo ; Encelia palmeri at Todos Santos. 



Habit. Test about 1.5 mm. long, oval, high convex, in unrubbed 

 specimens entirely covered with short curling wax filaments and with 

 numerous long filaments which are as long as the test itself, these fre- 



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Fig. 3- Asterolecanium cristatum n. sp. : A, adult female, to show distribution 

 of pores; B, anal lobes, left half dorsal, right half ventral; C, types of 

 pores, the larger from the dorsum, the smaller from the marginal series. 



