322 



Insect Pests. 



Magnolia glauca, Ilex opaca, Elcmgmis angustifolia, Jajyancsc quince 

 and Gooseberry (1 and 2). 



Its distribution in Britain is wide. Newstead (1) records it from 



FIG. 213.— BltOWN SOFT SCALE {Lecaili 



[li. Xewstead. 

 <■) ON lUiSE AND PEACH. 



Cheshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Ghjucestershire, Herefordshire, 

 Loudon district, Kent and Wiltshire. I have received it from Sussex, 

 Devon, Cornwall and Hunts. Fernald 

 (2) records it also I'rom Australia, Nova 

 Scotia and the United States. 



Life-History and Habits. 



The adult female is dusky yellow 

 and becomes gradually darkened with 

 age, paler in the middle with eight or 

 nine dark transverse bands and con- 

 fluent spots, oval and hemispherical 

 in form. The female at the period of 

 reproduction is shiny reddish-brown 

 with traces of the dark marking wdiich 

 later disappear when they become deep 

 chestnut-brown. The eggs are laid 

 about tlie middle of May under glass, and the larva3 liatch in the 

 middle of June. As many as 2,000 eggs are said to be laid (Newstead) 



[F. Eih'iulen. 

 FU). 214. — Lecanhuii persiai: 

 (Greatly enlarged female.) 

 {Fnmi ■preimration by Newstead.) 



