10 The Philippine Journal of Science 1917 



Pulvinaria polygonata Cockerell. 



Pulvinaria polygonata Cockerell, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. (1905), 

 10, 131. 



Female light brown, ovisac white, broad and fluffy, irregular 

 in form; mounted female about 3 millimeters long and 2 milli- 

 meters broad; skin with irregular polygonal structures like 

 some species of Saissetia; mouth parts small; marginal spines 

 long, stout, more or less branched at the ends but not greatly 

 broadened, stigmatal spines ordinary ; anal plates together form- 

 ing almost a square. Anterior leg measured in microns : Femur 

 and trochanter, 215; tibia, 150; tarsus without claw, 75; claws 

 hooked, their digitules fully twice their length. Antennae 

 measured in microns: (1) 50, (2) 52, (3) 75, (4) 57, (5) 50, 

 (6) 30, (7) 30, (8) 50. (From the original description.) 



Luzon, Manila (Toivnsend) , on a cultivated tree. 



Pulvinaria thespesiae Green. 



Pulvinaria thespesias Green, Coccidae of Ceylon (1909), pt. 4, 259; 

 Cockerell and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1915), 34, 427. 



Female brownish yellow, when alive pale green, ovisac white, 

 broad, fluffy, but not abundant; mounted female 3.5 to 4 milli- 

 meters long ; mouth parts ordinary ; anal plates heavy, elongated, 

 triangular, six anal hairs reaching to posterior tips of plates; 

 legs slightly longer than antennae, claw denticulate. Antennae 

 8-jointed, third joint the longest, second, third, fifth, and eighth 

 subequal (Plate II, fig. 6) ; numerous truncate marginal spines 

 with three smaller and one larger alternating; stigmatic area 

 with six stout pointed spines (Plate II, fig. 7). 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Bafios {Baker), on Codiaeum vanegaUim. 



Pulvinaria psidii Maskell. 



Pulvinaria psidii Maskell, Fernald, Cat. Coccidae of the World 

 (1903), 137; Cockerell and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 (1915), 35, 427. 



Female yellow, ovisac white, fluffy, irregular in form, often 

 matted; mounted female about 2.5 to 3 millimeters long; anal 

 plates triangular, anal ring with hairs reaching to posterior 

 tips of anal plates; mouth parts ordinary; legs about twice as 

 long as antennae, femur usually broad; antennae 8-jointed, three 

 longest, two, three, five, and eight almost subequal (Plate II, 

 fig. 4) ; a few pointed marginal spines ; stigmatic area with 

 spines in threes, median stout and three times as long as the 

 other two (Plate II, fig. 5). 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios {Baker), on Antidesma hunius, 

 Eugenia jambos, Ficus, and Psidium guajava. 



