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PROTOPULVINARIA, Cockerel/. 
Protopulvinaria, Ckll., Journal Trin. Nat. Club, Vol. I. p. 300 (1894). 
Differs from Lecanzum in the presence of a narrow fringe of cottony secretion 
surrounding the female after oviposition. This fringe is not of the same nature 
as the ovisac of Pu/vinaria, as it does not actually cover the eggs, which are all 
concealed beneath the body of the insect. In this respect the genus is midway 
between Lecanium and Pulvinaria. Mrs. Fernald, in her Catalogue of the 
Coccide of the World, has relegated Protopulvinaria to a subgenus of 
Pulvinaria ; but it might, with equal or more justice, be included in the genus 
Lecanium. The discovery of a second species, so manifestly congeneric with 
Cockerell’s P. pyrzformis, justifies the retention of generic rank for the name 
Protopulvinaria. 
