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Aspidiotus (Chrysomphalus) smilacis Cojustock. (Plate V, Figs. 



25-26.) 



Scale of female. — The scale of the female is circular, or nearly so, slightly con- 

 vex, with exuviae lateradof the center, shining coal-black in color ; the first skin shows 

 no segmentation ; length, .43 mm., the second skin oval, about .55 mm., in length ; 

 the color of scale grayish brown to dark brown ; diameter usually 1.5-2 mm. 



Mature female. The body of the female is ovate, lemon yellow in color ; the 

 last segment presenting the following characters : there are four pairs of well-devel- 

 oped lobes, the first and second lobes of each with a notch on the lateral margins, 

 the third pair with two notches on the lateral margins, the fourth pair vary in shape, 

 but are usually abruptly narrowed toward their posterior extremities on the lateral 

 margins, and sometimes have notches ; there are six thickenings of the body wall on 

 each side of the meson, these are linear, oblong, with the anterior ends rounded and 

 much expanded, and nearly parallel with the meson, one arising from the mesal mar 

 gin of the first lobe is short and small, one from the lateral margin of the same lobe is 

 more than twice the length of the lolie, one from the mesal margin of each of the 

 second and third lobes is short and small, one from a point about midway between 

 the second and third lobes extends anteriorly beyond any of the other thickenings, 

 and finally one from the lateral margin of the third pair and one from the mesal mar- 

 gin of the fourth pair, are short and very small, between the members of the first pair 

 of lobes and on each side between the first and second, and second and third lobes 

 are two minute fringed plates, while the space between the third and fourth lobes is 

 wide, with two rather large flat, fringed plates ; the spines are very small, and are 

 situated near the middle of the base of the lobes. 



Stale of male. — The scale of the male is elongated oval, of the same general 

 color as the female ; ventral scale well develcjjjed and dark brown, about I mm., long. 



Habitat: On Croton scouleri var. albescens {2(^2), C. scDu/eri v3iT. 

 macrcBi (189) 4,000 ft., and Chusques sp., Tagus Cove, Albemarle 

 Island; and on Scalesia gumftiifera (266), Klizabeth Bay, Albemarle 

 Island. 



" This is a Chrvso/nf /talus presenting the closest possible relation 

 to C. smi/acis (Comstock) which I have not seen. C. ^mi/aeis was 

 found at Wood's Holl, but I suspect it was on indoor plants. This 

 species differs from smilacis in the form of the second and third 

 lobes " (Cockerell ). 



E.YPLAN.^'iTION OF PLATE.S. 



Plate IV. 



Ortheiia ^alapa^oensis, sp. nov. 



Fig. I. Antennie of female. Fig. 3. Claw of the same. 



" 2. Leg of same. " 4. Anal ring of the same. 



