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Genus PSEUDAONIBIA Cockerell 

 Type, Aspidiotits duplex Cockerell. 

 Female scale moderately convex, subcircular, brownish black; 

 caudal margin with three or four pairs of lobes, median lobes 

 heavier, others narrower, fringed plates between the lobes; 

 with or without a tessellated patch. 



Synoptic table of the species. 



a\ Fourth lobes of caudal margin slightly developed (Plate V, fig. 8). 



obsita. 

 a'. Fourth lobes well developed (Plate V, figs. 10 and 11). 



6\ Caudal area vi^ith a reticulated patch, median lobes little darker than 



the others (Plate V, fig. 10) _ trilobitiformis. 



b-. Caudal area without a reticulated patch, median lobes darker and 

 heavier than the others (Plate V, fig. 11) circuliginis. 



Pseudaonidia obsita Cockerell and Robinson. 



Pseudaonidia obsita CocKEREix and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist. (1915), 34, 109. 



Female scale circular, about 2.5 millimeters in diameter, 

 slightly convex, appearing brownish black, but the true color 

 is brownish pink; exuviae yellowish fulvous, sublateral. Occas- 

 ionally the scales are white. Adult female somewhat oval, 

 segments distinct, abdomen with a large reticulated patch. 

 Caudal margin with three pairs of lobes and a fourth rudi- 

 mentary; median pair dark, notched on each side, slightly 

 shorter than the others; second and third pairs pale, elongate, 

 with a notch on the outer side; fourth lobes indicated by a 

 subangular projection; squames between the lobes bidentate; a 

 spine laterad of second and third lobes (Plate V, fig. 8). Cir- 

 cumgenital glands with anterior laterals of 27 to 29 orifices, 

 posterior laterals of 33. 



Male scale broad-oval, about 1.5 millimeters long, dull brownish 

 pink, with pale orange first skin at one end. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Baiios (Baker), on Ficiis caudatifolia, 



Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green). 



Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (Green) Fernax,d, Cat. Coccidae of the 



World (1903), 284; Cockerell, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. (1905), 



10, 134. 



Female scale usually semicircular, 3 to 4.5 millimeters in 



diameter, almost flat, pale reddish brown; exuviae yellow (Plate 



V, fig. 9). Female insect hard and horny with transverse 



striated lines, oblong, segments well defined ; caudal margin with 



eight obscurely tricuspid lobes, median stoutest but often not 



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