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SCALE OF FEMALE. Plate 4, Fig. i. Length, 1.8 2.6 mm. Dis- 

 tinctly broadened posteriorly and usually broadly rounded at the 

 extremity, but occasionally bluntly pointed. Very thin and delicate 

 in texture or moderately thick and strong. Pale yellowish-brown to 

 brown. Exuviae .7 .9 mm. long, of the same color as the secreted 

 portion of the scale but slightly brighter. 



FEMALE. Plate 6, Fig. i. The first four segments anterior to 

 the pygidium very pronounced, being often produced at each side 

 into a conspicuous protuberance. First and second pairs of lobes 

 (Plate 9, Figs. 8 and 9) well developed, third pair very rudimentary 

 or wanting. Each median lobe with three distinct notches on the 

 outer curved edge. Lobules of the second lobe long and narrow, 

 spatulate in form ; edges thickened at the base. The gla?id-spines 

 are arranged as follows: i, i, i, i, 2-5. As a rule the fifth group 

 contains 2-3 spines, but in one specimen I observed 5. The 

 marginal gland-orifice between the first and second lobes is situated 

 on a large, conspicuous prominence. Second row of dorsal gland- 

 orifices wholly absent. Third and fourth rows with 2 5 orifices in 

 their posterior groups. Anterior groups absent. Median group of 

 circum^enital gland-orifices, 5 15; anterior laterals, 15 22; poste- 

 rior laterals, 17 23. 



SCALE OF MALE. Plate i, Fig. 4 A. Length, i 1.3 mm. Exuvia 

 bright yellow. 



REMARKS. 



This species agrees with theae Mask, in having the female scale 

 brown, but may be separated from that species by a broader second 

 exuvia. Plate 6, Fig. 2 represents the second exuvia of aspidistrae 

 and Fig. 3, of the same plate, theae. Superficially the female scale 

 of miissaendae resembles the two species. In mussaendae, however, 

 the median lobes are much larger and darker in color. In his origi- 

 nal description of aspidistrae, Signoret did not state where his spec- 

 imens were procured, hence we may reasonably infer that they were 

 from France. He plainly states, however, that his specimens of 

 brasihensis were from Bahia, Brazil, and as this species is now con- 

 sidered a synonym of aspidistrae, it would seem that aspidistrae was 

 originally known from France and Bahia, Brazil. It has since been 

 found in Trinidad (Urich and Hart), Ceylon (Green), South Aus- 



