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so long as the others. Plates between the lobes deeply fringed, 

 little longer than the lobes. On dorsal surface an extensive 

 reticulated patch, spaces of irregular size and shape (Plate V, 

 fig. 10), Circumgenital glands with anterior laterals of 21 to 

 24 orifices, posterior laterals of 16 to 27. Tubular spinnerets 

 present. (From Green.) 



Luzon, Manila (Townsend), on Artocarpus. 



Pseudaonidia circuliginis (Green). 



Aspidiotus circuliginis Green, Ent. Mont. Mag. (1904), 40, 208. 

 Pseudaonidia circuliginis Cockerell and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. (1915), 34, 426. 



Female scale nearly circular, 2.75 millimeters in diameter, 

 black, exuviae yellow. Female insect also circular ; median lobes 

 of caudal margin notched on each side, heavy and dark, second 

 and third lobes transparent and elongate, similarly notched, 

 fourth lobes represented by a heavy projection of the body wall; 

 narrow bidentate plates between the lobes (Plate V, fig. 11). 

 Circumgenital glands in two confluent groups each of 30 to 

 33 orifices. A continuous thickened rim cephalad of the caudal 

 lobes. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos (Baker), on Corypha elata. 



Genus LEPIDOSAPHES Shimer 



TjHpe, Coccus ulmi Linnaeus. 

 Female scale long, narrow, and usually curved. Caudal margin 

 of female with heavy median lobes and second and third lobes 

 consisting of two lobules; circumgenital glands usually present. 

 Male scale resembles female in form and texture, not carinate. 



Synoptic table of the species. 



a*. Female scale yellowish green or greenish yellow; exuviae orange, with 



a dark red longitudinal stripe rubrovittatus. 



o'. Female scale darker, grayish brown to red-brown. 

 6\ Female scale broadened posteriorly. 

 b'. Female scale broadest across middle, often curved, uniform light 



brown _ _ „ lasianthi. 



' c'. Female without circumgenital glands. 



rf". Median lobes smaller than second pair (Plate VI, fig. 1). 



luzonica. 



cf. Median lobes larger than second pair (Plate VI, fig. 2) ixorae. 



c'. Female with circumgenital glands. 



c\ Female scale 3 to 4 millimeters long; median lobes of caudal 

 margin entire, each forming a low semicircle (Plate VI, fig. 3). 



coccnil. 



