1894.] 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, 



59 



NAXIA Guen. 

 5. N. apiciplaga sp. nov. (^. — Palpi, front, patagia and upperside of the 

 thorax, dark brown; the upper and lowersides of the abdomen and the 

 lowerside of the thorax are dark fuscous. The legs are concolorous, the 

 tarsi are ringed with whitish. The primaries are dark brown, marked 

 with darker geminate crenulated basal, subbasal, median, limbal, and 

 submarginal transverse lines. At the base the intervals between the lines 

 are paler, and toward the costa bright ferruginous. On the costa toward 

 the apex is a large subtriangular patch of gray margined inwardly with 

 silvery white and accentuated on the costa by three minute white spots. 

 The fringes are whitish, except at the outer angle, where they are black- 

 ish. The secondaries are dark blackish fuscous, with the base clothed 

 with grayish hairs. The fringes are broadly whitish from the outer angle 

 to the end of the first median nervule. On the underside both wings are 

 cloudy fuliginous, crossed with a number of parallel, crenulated, darker 

 lines; both have the outer margins laved with light gray; both are heavily 

 clouded with black about the middle near the outer margin. The prima- 

 ries have the inner margin pale gray. Expanse 55 mm. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IL 



Fig. I. Minucia verecunda sp. nov. 



2. Lagoptera rubricata sp. nov. 



3. Naxia apicipla sp. nov. 



4. Achcea lienardi Boisd. 



5. Ophiodes croceipemiis Walk. 



6. " catocalina sp. nov. 



7. Sphingomorpha pudens sp. nov. 



8. Lagoptera parallelepipeda Guen. 9- 



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A NEW SCALE-INSECT ON AGAVE. 



By T. D. A. COCKERELL. 



Aspidiotus bowreyi, n. sp. — Female scales crowded on the plant, remind- 

 ing one of Pseiidoparlatoria ostreata. Scale elongate, slightly over 2 

 mm. long, gray, with the circular blackish exuviae towards one end; first 

 skin covered. When the film of secretion is removed, the exuviae are 

 shining black. Female ( after boiling in caustic soda) broad pyriform, 

 pale yellow. Three pairs of terminal lobes, none very prominent ; mid- 

 dle pair close together but not touching, low, with truncate ends; second 

 and third pairs broader, the third pair inconspicuous. Beyond the lobes 

 the margin presents five distinct serrations, and beyond these some indis- 

 tinct serration. The club-shaped thickenings (such as Comstock de- 

 scribes in A. smilacis ) are very distinct ; there is a small one at the inner 



