45 



Prof. Cockerell in his original descriptive note adopted aspidistrae 

 as the type of the genus. 



SYNOPTIC TABLE OF SPECIES. 



\ Scale of female white, 2. 



Im ( Scale of female brown or yellowish, ... 4. 



f Median lobes quite small; long and narrow. See Plate 9, 

 J Fig. i, . . . . . . . dracaenae. 



j Median lobes large and broad, the two together being nearly 

 (^semi-circular in outline, ...... 3. 



f Marginal gland prominences quite well developed and drawn 

 | out into a slender spine. See Plate 9, Figs. 2 and 4, 

 3. -( scrobicularum. 



| Marginal gland prominences not well developed, at least not 

 ^ drawn out into spines. See Plate 9, Fig. 7, rhododendri. 



( Median lobes crenate. See Plate 9, Fig. 5, . minor. 



4 ' '( Median lobes serrate. See Plate 9, Fig. 6, minor strachani. 



( Median lobes very large, dark colored and conspicuous. See 

 ! Plate 9, Fig. 10, . . . . . mussaendae. 



I Median lobes small, somewhat sunken into the pygidium. 

 l^SeePlate 9 , Fig. 3, . . . . . . 6. 



f Female scale unusually elongated (Plate i, Fig. 3); second 

 j exuvia long and narrow (Plate i, Fig. 3), . . theae. 

 6. \ Female scale only moderately elongated (Plate i, Fig. 4), 

 | second exuvia not unusually long compared with its width 

 1^ (Plate i, Fig. 4), aspidistrae. 



HEMICHIONASPIS ASPIDISTRAE. 



Chionaspis aspidistrae Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.,Ser. 4, Vol. IX., 



p. 443 (1869). 

 Chionaspis brasiliensis Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Ser. 4, Vol. IX., 



p. 444 (1869). 

 Chionaspis aspidistrae Maskell, Trans. N. Z. Inst., Vol. XXIV., p. 



15 (1891). 

 Chionaspis aspidistrae Cotes, Ind. Mus. Notes, Vol. II., No. i, p. 



17 (1891). 

 Chionaspis aspidistrae Maskell, Ent. Mo. Mag., Vol. XXVII., p. 70 



(1892). 



