'38 PAPERS ON COCCIDiE OR SCALE INSECTS. 



Genus LEFROYIA Green. Type castanex. 



Lefroyia Green, Mem. Dep. Ag. India, n, 2, p. 21 (1908). 



Lefrojda castanese Green. 



Lefroyia castanex Green, Mem. Dep. Ag. India, ii, 2, p. 21 (1908). Fig. 

 Habitat— Assam. 

 On smaller branches of Castanea sp. 



Stictococcus multispinosus Newstead. 



Stictococcus viultispinosus Newst., Jn. Econ. Biol., ii, 4, p. 150 (1908). 

 Habitat — East Africa. 



Dactylopius argentinus Dominguez. 



Dactylopius argentinus Dominguez, Trab. Mus. Farm. Fac. Cienc. Med., no. 17 (1907). 

 •Dominguez, Bol. MIa. Ag., vn, 3, pp. 148, 150 (1907). 

 Habitat — Argentina. 

 On Cactacese (Opuntia Jicus-indica and 0. aurantiaca). 



Dactylopius ceylonicus (Green). 



Coccus cacti var. ceylonicus Green, Ind. Mus. Notes, iv, 1, p. 7 (1896). 



Mask., N. Z. Trans., xxix, p. 319 (1897). 

 Coccus indicus Green, Mem. Dep. Ag. India, ii, 2, p. 28 (1908). Fig. 



Habitat — Ceylon; India. 



On Opuntia dillenii. 



a Sphaerococcus draper! Newstead. 



Sphxrococcus draperi Newst., Liverpool Univ. Quart. Jn., i, 2, p. 70 (1906); Agr. News 

 West Ind., v, 3, p. — (1906). 

 Draper, Scale Insects of Egypt, p. 12 (1907). 

 Habitat — Egypt. 

 On date palm. 



Genus MACROCEROCOCCUS Leonardi. Type, superbus. 



Macrocerococcus Leon., Bol. Zool. Sc. Sup. Portici, i, p. 151 (1907). 



Macrocerococcus superbus Leonardi. 



Macrocerococcus superbus Leon., Bol. Zool. Sc. Sup. Portici, i, p. 152 (1907). Fig. 



Marchal, Compt. Rend. Ac. Sci., Paris, cxliii, 13, p. 872 

 (1909). 

 Habitat — Sardinia; Corsica; France. 



On stems of an undetermined grass, and on Lepidium draba; Alyssum mediter- 

 raneum; Lotus; Fumaria major; Cetarach officinalis; Antirrhinum latifolium. 



Phenacoccus cholodkovskyi Marchal. 



Phenacoccus cholodkovskyi Ma.rcha\, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxxvii, p. 245 (1908). Fig. 

 Habitat — Southern Russia. 

 On Triticum vulgar e. 



« This species must be very close to Phoenicococcus marlatti Ckll., a very common 

 pest of the date palm in Algeria, if it is not indeed identical. The description answers 

 very well for the latter species. 



