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lias been met with in Japan ; Prof. Comstock found it 

 on Microsamia in the United States; Prof. Hempel 

 records it from Brazil; and Mr. Maskell records it 

 from Australia on apple. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES. 



PL XXX, fig. 9. Puparium of adult female. X 15. 

 Fig. 10. Puparium of male. X 20. 

 Fig. 11. Adult female at period of gestation, x 



40. 

 Fig. 12. Insects natural size on portion of leaf of 



Gypripedium. 

 PI. XXXII, fig. 3. Adult female after treatment with 



potash, x 50. 

 Fig. 4. Fringe of pygidium of adult female, x 



600. 



PI. XXXIII, fig. 2. Pygidium of adult female, x 

 250. 



PARLATORIA PERGANDII (Comstock). 



PI. XXX, figs. 13 ; PI. XXXII, figs. 1, 2 ; PL XXXIII, 



fig. 1. 



Parlatoria pe rgandii, Comstock; Rep., 1880, p. 327, 

 pi. xi, fig. 4; pi. xx, fig. 5. Report, 1883, 

 p. 113, pi. ii, fig. 6. 



Puparium of the female (PL XXX, fig. 1) very 

 variable in form ; it is often more or less circular or 

 broadly pyrif orm, and sometimes elongate ; it is smooth 

 and . semi-transparent, showing, indistinctly, the sub- 

 lying female. Colour dusky white, tinged with pale 

 reddish brown ; exuviae marginal, but rarely projecting, 

 are dull orange brown or yellow ; secretionary cover- 

 ing thin and transparent, but usually opaque white at 

 the margins. Cabinet specimens become more or less 



