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CERONEMA, Maskell. 
Ceronema, Mask., V.Z. Trans., Vol. XXVII. p. 55 (1894). 
“Female insects, in the adult stage, covered wholly or partially by tests of 
threads more or less closely woven, neither glassy, nor cottony, nor felted, never 
forming homogeneous plates. No fringe. Form of insect Lecaniid, showing 
cleft and lobes. Male pupa covered by a glassy test of normal Lecaniid form, 
composed of plates more or less homogeneous.’. 
The above is Maskell’s diagnosis of the genus. The following species, which 
has been included in the genus provisionally—at the suggestion of Maskell 
himself—has a partial test of a structure that does not altogether agree with 
that author’s diagnosis, being of a closer and more homogenous nature. But 
the insect agrees with the characters of this more nearly than with those of any 
other Lecaniid genus. 
