112 ASPIDIOTUS PERSE.E. 



a series of ten to twelve smaller pores within tlie 

 margin beyond the central spine. Vaginal opening 

 central. Dermis with many long spiny hairs on the 

 cephalic area. 



Larva. Antennas funiculate, of six joints, the 

 funicle forming one half of the entire length. 



Habitat. On Catilei/a /S'/Vy/ /////, under glass, 

 London. Collected by Mr. E. E. Green, to whom I 

 am indebted for the specimens. 



Distribution. Probably a subtropical species. 



The form of the puparia, and also the deeply 

 serrated margin of the pygidinm, somewhat resembles 

 Aspidiotus biformis, Ckll., bnt it is much more 

 closely related to A. scutiformis, Ckll., and A. Ito/rcii, 

 Ckll. It differs from either of these latter, however, 

 by the unusually broadly divergent bifurcate plates, 

 and the regular and deeply serrated margin, which 

 latter character resembles the serrations in . I . fHi 

 Hemp el. 



ASPIDIOTUS PERSE^: (COMSTOCK). 

 (PI. XI, fig. 7, after Comstock.) 



Aspidiotus persese, Comstock; Report, 1880, p. 305, 



pi. xii, fig. 3 ; pi. xiii, fig. 3. 

 Ckri/somphulus perseae, Leonardi; Monogr. delgenere 



Aspidiotus. Nota preventiva, Estr. Biv. Patol. 



Veg., Anno V, 1896 7, p. 286. 



Puparium of the female flat, convex ; colour dark 

 reddish brown, or purplish brown. Exuviae approxi- 

 mately central ; intense black ; first secretional covering 

 nipple-shaped, the second slightly convex, or taking 

 the same contour as the scale; colour of both dull 

 ochreous grey. 



Diam. 1*50 2 mm. 



Having only seen the puparia of this insect from the 

 collection of Mr. Douglas, I have no alternative but 



