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are frequently covered with a flocculent secretion given off by the 

 larvae. Length, 0.80 to 1 mm.; breadth, about 0.40 mm. 



Eggs: Arranged in double rows inclosed within the second larval 

 exuvia. 



Female^ — "Adult female pale yellow, of normal form. Antennae 

 close together, on anterior margin; each antenna consisting of an 

 irregular tubercle with a single curved bristle on one side. From 

 between the antennae springs a stout spatulate process which is not 

 chitinous but of the same consistency as the surrounding parts of 

 the body. Margin of thorax and abdomen with a series of minute 

 spinneret ducts opening on to small conical tubercles. Pygidium 

 (PI. I) with a conspicuous median cleft, on the margin of wliich are 

 situated the moderately large serrate median lobes. First pair of 

 lateral lobes represented only by small serrate thickenings of the 

 margin; second lateral lobes obsolete." [Although the lateral lobes 

 are wanting in the adult, they are quite prominent on the second 

 larval exuvia and are of the normal F.fiorinise type.] ''Spines nor- 

 mal, the dorsal series rather long; one pair springing from within 

 the median cleft. Circumgenital glands in five groups; the median 

 and upper lg,teral groups together forming an almost continuous 

 arch. Median group with four or five orifices; upper laterals, 10 to 

 13; lower laterals, 15 to 18. A very few circular pores with accom- 

 panying ducts, on dorsal surface, near the margin. Length, 0.50 

 to 0.75 mm." 



DISTRIBUTION. 



The tea scale is recorded on Camellias in Alabama, District of 

 Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South 

 Carolina. It has been collected in Ceylon, Philippine Islands, and 

 India, occurring in the following localities in the latter country: 

 Kangra Valley, Assam, Bashahr State close to Kilta in the Sutlej 

 VaUey, Calcutta, and the northwestern Himalayas. 



FOOD PLANTS, 



In the United States this scale has only been collected on camellias 

 and tea, but in India it has been recorded on tea, olive {Olea glandu- 

 lijera), and citrus. In the Philippine Islands it occurs on a species 

 of Caryola, and Mr. R. S. Woglmn has collected it on Ostodes in the 

 Royal Botanical Gardens of Peradenyia, Ceylon. Although F. these 

 seems to show a preference to the tea at SummerviQe, S. C, it appears 

 to be quite a serious pest on the camellias in several of the more 

 Southern States, and is not infrequently found associated with Lepi- 

 dosaphes lasianthi Green. 



1 Owing to the accuracy of Mr. E. E. Cfieen's description of this species it has been deemed wise to give 

 It verbatim. (Indian Museum Notes, 5, No. 1, p. 3 (1900).) 



