catalogue of insects. 



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SMILIA Weise=PENTILIA. 



a 



/ 



CC Ji c ^ 



Fig. 89. — Smilia ntisella : a, adult ; b, larva ; c, pupa : d, all stage 

 and adult feeding on the pernicious scale in calyx cup 

 of pear: all much enlarged. 





S. misella Lee. Throughout the State, locally common on trees infested by 

 the San Jose or pernicious scale : this insect has increased enormously 

 since the pernicious scale has been introduced, but it is not yet equal to 

 coping with its prey and forms a check merely. 



S. punctum Lee. 



STETHORUS Weise. 

 Spring Lake (Ch), g. d. (Li). 



SCYMNUS* Kug. 



S. fraternus Lee. G. d. rare (Li). 



S. brullei Muls. Clifton (Ch), Ft. Lee (Sf). 



S. hemorrhous Lee. Orange Mts. (Bf), Cape May Court House (W). 



S. chromopyga Casey. Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia (Casey). 



S. cervicalis Muls. Spring Lake (Ch), Ft. Lee (Sf), "New Jersey " (Li). 



S. caudalis Lee. Orange Mts. (Bf). 



* The species are not satisfactorily determined in collections generally, and while I have compared 

 many of my own and Mr. Bischoff' s species with the Horn collection these have not been verified by 

 Capt. Casey's tables. 



