May, '02] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



135 



few spines, digitules on tarsus long, thread-like, knobbed, 

 digitules on claw short and stout, knobbed ; posterior margin 

 of the body with two long hairs and two spines at the base of 

 each hair ; anal ring with four spiny-hairs. 



Habitat. Found by the writer on Distichlis viaritima in salt 

 marsh near Palo Alto, California, Dec. 20, 1901. The female 

 lives under the sheathing base of the host plant. 



Type in the Entomological Collection of Iceland Stanford, Jr. 

 University. 



Three species of the genus /'.y(?/^- , ,.,,..<' ^ 



dolecanium have been heretofore 

 known, and they are recorded from 

 the following localities : 



/, 



Fig. I. — Pseudolecanium disticlium. 



a. Ventral aspect of female 



b. Anteinire of the same. 



c. A spiracle of the same. 



d. Ventral aspect of the last setj- 



ment of the same. 



I. Pseudolecanium tokionis Ckll. 



Fig. 2. — Pseudolecanium diiticliutn. 



e. Dorsal aspect of the last seg- 

 ment of female. 



/". Ventral aspect of the first larval 

 stage 



g. Antenna of the same. 



h. Leg of the same. 



i. Posterior abdominal segments of 

 the same. 



Tokyo, Gifu in Japan ; and Stanford University campus, 

 California. 



2. Pseudolecanium californicum Ehr. 



Mountain View, California ; Manhattan and St. George, 

 Kansas. 



