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and third slender, transparent, contracted at the base, notched 

 on the outer edges; each lobe situated on a pointed prominence 

 of the body wall; two slightly divided plates between median 

 lobes, deeply notched plates laterad of the other lobes; a small 

 spine at base of each lobe (Plate V, fig. 5). Circumgenital 

 glands with anterior laterals of 6 to 11 orifices, posterior laterals 

 of 4 to 6 orifices. Filiform tubular spinnerets present. 



Male scale similar to female, smaller, oval, 1 millimeter long, 

 0.75 millimeter broad. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios {Baker), on Anona squamosa, 

 Aleurites moluccana, Carica papaya, Cocos nucifera, Codiaeum 

 variegatum, Dioscorea alata, Mangifera indica, Musa sapientum, 

 Psidium araca, Spondias, Tamarindus indica; Bataan, Lamao 

 {Baker), on Phoenix dactylifera; Tayabas, Lucban {Townsend) , 

 on coconut seedling. 



Aspidiotus tayabanus Cockerell. 



Aspidiotiis tayabamis CoCKERELL, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. (1905), 

 10, 133. 



Female scale flat, dark ferruginous, exuvise marked by a dot 

 and ring in gray or yellowish white, second skin orange-ferru- 

 ginous. Female reniform; median lobes of caudal margin large 

 and elongated, the inner edges almost contiguous, apex rounded, 

 outer edge with a strong notch ; second lobes similar, but smaller 

 and more pointed; spines large; beyond the second lobes are 

 two pointed projections followed by three large, broad, strap- 

 shaped plates slightly notched. Cephalad of the first and 

 second lobes are two long club-shaped glands (Plate V, fig. 

 6) . Dorsal pores small and few in number. (From the original 

 description.) 



Luzon, Tayabas, Lucban {Townsend), on Gardenia or 

 Jasminum. 



This is by no means a typical Aspidiotus. 



Aspidiotus rapax Comstock. 



Aspidiotiis rapax CoMSTOCK, Fernald, Cat. Coccidae of the World 

 (1903), 276; Cockerels and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 (1915), 34, 427. 



Female scale and adult insect indistinguishable from A. 

 cydonise. Female insect only differs from A. cydonise in the 

 absence of circumgenital glands. The thickenings of the caudal 

 margin do not take the form of definite projections (Plate V, 

 fig. 7). 



Luzon, Manila market {Baker), on oranges {Citrus auran- 

 tium) from southern California. 



