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covered by Miss Tomlin in J 890. Subsequently, in 

 ]897, I found a number of these insects on pine apples 

 exposed for sale in this city (Chester). This was in 

 the month of April, and although the fruit had been 

 exposed to the open air for several days, both females 

 and larvae were living, and appeared none the worse 

 for their sudden exposure to a iimeh colder climate. 

 The same fruit harboured colonies of D/ffxy/x A/-nmr//,v 

 in all stages. 



This insect is remarkable for the singular structure 

 of the female puparium, which differs from all other 

 species of this genus in being narrowed and complete 

 at the posterior extremity. 



DlX'KMTloN or T1IK IM..\TI>. 



PL III, fig. 1.- I'uparium of adult female, dorsal 



view, showing naked black exuvia*. X - : >. 

 Fig. 2. Puparium of adult female, ventral view, 

 with greater portion of ventral scale broken away, 

 showing the adult insect and the eggs at the 

 narrow posterior extremity. X --V 

 Fig. 3. Puparium of the female second stage. X - : >. 

 Fig. -t. Puparium of the male. X -">. 

 Fig. 5. Insects natural si/e /'// xih'i on portion of 



pine-apple fruit. 



PI. IV, fig. 2. Pygidium of adult female. X :T)0. 

 H. XI, fii^. 6. Margin of pv^idium of adult female. 

 X 



ASPIDIOTUS Arii'ANTII (Maskell). 

 (Plate I, figs. 1 (>; Plate II, fig. 1 ; Mate XI, fig. 1.) 



Aspidiotnx tuirmttu, Maskell ; Ti-ans. X.Z. Inst., vol. 

 xi, 1878, p. 199. 



ritri, Comstock ; ( 1 anadian Entomologist, 

 vol. xiii, p. 8. 



