76 PAPEES ON COCCID^ OR SCALE INSECTS. 



The following table, based on characters exhibited by the adult 

 female, is offered as a means for separation of the species occurring 

 in the United States. 



I. Spatulate protuberance between antennae present, first pair of lateral lobes rep- 

 resented by serrate thickenings F. these Green. 



II. Spatulate protuberance between antennae absent, first pair of lateral lobes 

 prominent. 



(o) Median and anterior lateral paragenitals usually contiguous, 21-23; 



posterior laterals 10-16 F. jioriniae Targ. 



(6) Paragenitals massed and numerous; median 3-11, anterior laterals 1&-24, 

 posterior laterals 19-31 F. Jioriniae var. japonica Kuw. 



THE TEA SCALE. 



Fiorinia these Green. 

 Plates X and XI. 



Fiorinia fiorinix var. camellias RoUe.and Quaintance, Coccidse Americanse. Decadea 

 i-iii, No. 6 (1898). 



Fiorinia thex Green, Indian Museum Notes, V, No. 1, p. 3 (1900). Fig. 



Fiorinia these Stebbing, Insects that affect forestry, No. 1, p. 133 (1902). Fig. 



Fiorinia these Green, Indian Museum Notes, V, No. 3, p. 102 (1903). Record only. 



Fiorinia these Femald, Catalogue of the Coccidas of the world, p. 250 (1903). 



Fiorinia these Watt and Mann, The pests and blights of the tea plant, p. 306, Calcutta, 

 2d edition (1903). Fig. 



Fiorinia these Leonardi, Redia, III, p. 28 (1905,). Fig. "Saggio di Sistematica Delle 

 Fiorinise." 



Fiorinia these Green and Mann, Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, 

 Entomological Series, I, No. 5, pp. 343, 350 (1907). Bibliography and record only. 



Fiorinia these Green, Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India, Entomo- 

 logical Series, II, No. 2, p. 39 (1908). Record only. 



Fiorinia these Stebbing, Manual of forest zoology for India, p. 165 (1908). Fig. 



Fiorinia these Lindinger, Zeitschr. f. wiss. InsektenbioL, VII, 4, p. 127 (1911). 



Notwithstanding the fact that the tea scale, Fiorinia these Green, 

 has been in the National Collection of Goccidss since 1887 identified 

 as F.Jiorinise Targ., it was not described until 1900 by Green on tea 

 from Assam and Kangra, India, A thorough study of the material 

 in this collection revealed the fact that all the specimens on Camellia, 

 with the exception of Comstock's type of F. cameUise, which is now 

 recognized as a synonym of F. fiorinix Targ., are the tea scale of 

 Green. 



In 1897 Cockerell ^ recorded what he considered a distinct variety 

 of F. fiorinise Targ. on the underside of a leaf of Camellia japonica 

 from Baton Rouge, La., and, judging from his partial description he 

 surely had reference to F. these Green. 



A microscopic study of the material in "Coccidse Americanse" 

 (Decades i-iii, No. 6 [18981), distributed by Rolfs and Quaintance 



> Bui. Bot. Dept. Jamaica, n. s. 4, p. 149 (1897). 



