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bb. Scale of adult female never with a second exuvia; body always en- 

 closed in a puparium. 

 c. Pygidium of adult female with single pair of distinct lobes. 



Type, Diaspis (Cryptodiaspis) limuloides Lindgr 



Credodiaspis MacG. 

 cc. Pygidium of adult female without lobes.-Adiscodiaspis Marchal. 



SPECIES OF CARULASPIS 



a, Pygidium of adult female with two pairs of lobes; caudal margin 

 truncately rounded; median pair of lobes with distal end rounded, 

 entire or slightly notched; second pair of lobes incised, mesal lobe- 

 let much larger than lateral, entire ; plates stout, slightly longer than 

 lobes, arranged 2, 2, 7, those of each lateris arranged 1-1-2-3; lata- 

 dentes of each second incisura triangular and as long as lobes, two 

 adjacent to plate at cephalic margin of second pair of lobes, round- 

 ed, with oraceratubae ; genacerores 5-8(10-16)7-9; mesospiracerores 

 usually two. Diaspis carueli Targ., Diaspis juniperi Bouche. Italy, 

 England, New York, Massachusetts, District of Columbia on Juni- 



perus, arbor-vitae. juniperi Bouche. 



aa. Pygidium of adult female with three pairs of lobes, 

 b. Pygidium with third pair of lobes incised. 



c. Pygidium with lobes all entire; median pair of lobes broader 

 than long, indistinct mesal and lateral notches, bluntly point- 

 ed between notches; second and third pairs of lobes incised, 

 lobelets subequal in size and similar in form to lobelets of 

 second pair; plates slender, arranged 2, 1, 1, 4, those of each 

 lateris arranged 1-1-1-1; lateres irregularly broadly indented, 

 crenulate; latadentes bearing oraceratubae in second and third 

 incisurae; genacerores in four groups. Pseudoparlatoria 



cristata Lindgr. Brazil on Gnetum cristata Lindgr. 



cc. Pygidium with third pair of lobes minutely serrate, wide 

 apart, striated, produced, but not conspicuously beyond margin; 

 second and third pairs of lobes incised; plates spine-like, ar- 

 ranged 2, 1-2, 1-2, 5, those of lateres arranged 1-1-1-1-1; lata- 

 dentes caudad of each second and third lobe and two eephalad 

 of third pair of lobes representing fourth pair of lobes; gena- 

 cerores 11-11(18-18)8-8. Diaspis miranda Ckll. Mexico on 



"Cherimoya," "Zapote." miranda Ckll. 



bb. Pygidium with third pair of lobes not incised, rounded; lateral 

 margin oblique, intermediate in size between lobelets of second 

 pair of lobes; mesal lobelet of second pair of lobes nearly twice 

 as large as lateral, bluntly rounded, lateral irregularly rounded; 

 median pair of lobes slightly larger than mesal lobelet of second 

 pair, bluntly rounded; lobes all entire; plates longer than lobes, 

 arranged 2, 1, 1, 4, those of each lateris arranged 0-1-2-1; lateres 

 crenulate and irregularly finely notched; latadentes large in sec- 

 ond incisurae, smaller in third; anus superimposed over vulva; 

 genacerores 5-7(14-21)20-25; mesospiracerores 2-1, metaspiracerores 

 2. Pseudoparlatoria chilina Lindgr. Chile on Saxegothaea, 

 Podocarpus. chilina Lindgr. 



