62 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



This species was found by the author on the mulberry- 

 tree in Hukuoka, Gifu, Tokyo, and Sendai, and on other 

 plants in Gifu and Saitama-ken. 



Series II. 



Genus Ericerus Guer, 



25. Ericerus pela West. 



Ericerus pela West, C. R. tome X, pp. 618-666; Revue Zoologique de 

 Guerin-Meneville, 1830, p. 120; Gardeners' Chronicle, London, 1853, 

 p. 532. SiGNORET, Essai, 1874, pp. 91, 92. Sasaki, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 

 Japan, No. 114, pp. 111-116. (In Japanese.) 



This interesting insect has been known in certain parts of 

 the Empire for years as producing wax. It is known to the 

 people by the name of Ibota-mushi, because of its feeding 

 on Ligustrum ibota or Ibota-no-ki. According to C. Sasaki, 

 it has been recorded from Hukushima, Tottori, Nagano and 

 Kochi-ken. 



The author's specimens (male) were obtained from Y. 

 Nawa, Gifu. 



Genus Ceroplastes Gray. 

 26. Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock. 



Ceroplastes floridensis Comstock, Ent. Rept. U. S. Dept. Agric, 1880, p. 

 331- 

 This species was found by the author on oleander, in 

 Wakayama-ken, and on the tea-plant in Tokyo and Yoko- 

 hama. This is the first time it has been recorded from 

 Japan. 



27. Ceroplastes ceriferus And. 



Ceroplastes ceriferus And. Maskell, Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst., 

 Vol. XXV, 1892, p. 216. Craw, Rept. Calif. State Bd. Hort., 1895-96, 

 p. 44. 



This species was found by the author on Taonoho japon- 

 ica, (Mokkoku), in Minoshima, Wakayama-ken, and on the 

 tea-plant in Kokura, Kiushiu. It is one of the worst tea- 

 plant pests. In a plantation near Kokura the trees were 



