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REPRINTS AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



I. DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE SPECIES OF INDIAN 

 ALEUEODID^.* 



By W. M. Maskell. 

 Plate No. XII. 



[Note.— The first and second insects described here have been previously 

 referred to in Indian Museum Notes, Vol. III., No. 5, p, 53. The third has been 

 found to infest rose trees in Quetta ; specimens were forwarded to the Museum by 

 the Deputy Conservator of Forests, Quetta, Baluchistan, in July 1893.— E. B.J 



(i) Aleurodes barodensiSf MaskelU 



Eggs orange-coloured, rather large, oval, pedunculated ; length 

 about Y^o i"' ^^^ ^SS^ ^"^ empty shells are found in large 

 numbers on the leaf. 



Larva dark-brown, becoming later almost black ; elongated 

 elliptical ; slightly convex ; abdominal segments fairly distinct, 

 length about -Jg- in. Margin minutely crenulated and bearing a 

 short white waxy fringe, which is frequently very fragmentary or 

 absent. Dorsum bearing, within the margin, a row of about 

 thirty-two small simple circular pores ; within these is a transverse 

 row of four on the anterior thoracic region^ another transverse row 

 of four on the anterior abdominal region, a longitudinal row of four 

 on each side of the abdomen, and oiie on each side of the vasi- 

 form orifice. Vasiform orifice subconical, the posterior extremity 

 slicrhtly produced ; operculum short, rounded, subconical ; lingula 

 cylindrical at the base, afterwards widened, finally tapering, not 

 quite reaching the edge of the orifice. 



Pupa- case very dark-brown or glossy-black, very elongated, 

 elliptical, with sides nearly straight^ the width only about one- 

 third of the length. Dorsum sometimes slightly convex, sometimes 

 flat sometimes slightly concave ; abdominal segments indistinct. 

 Vasiform orifice apparently as in the larva, but difficult to make out 

 on account of the very dark colour of the case. Margin crenulated, 

 and bearing a very elegant, long, snowy-white fringe of slender 

 waxy cylindrical tubes. There is frequently some white powdery 

 meal on the dorsum, which probably bears pores as in the larva, 



* Reprinted from the Transactions of the New Zealand Insiitute, 1895. 



