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area with one, two, or three pairs of lobes; median lobes with 

 inner edges straight, parallel, and close together, often cre- 

 nate and darker than the others ; additional lobes of two lobules, 

 Circumgenital glands always present. Male scale elongated, 

 carinate. 



Synoptic table of the species. > 



a'. Female scale very narrow, almost linear; rich red-brown uvariae. 



a'. Female scale elongate, broadened posteriorly, varying to almost circular. 

 6\ Caudal margin of female with second pair of lobes rudimentary (Plate 



VI, fig. 7) townsendi. 



b^. Caudal margin with second pair of lobes long and narrow (Plate VI, 

 fig. 10 ) _ aspidistra. 



HemicMonaspis uvariae Cockerell and Robinson. 



Hemichionaspis uvarise Cockerell and Robinson, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist. (1914), 33, 330. 



Female scale very narrow, almost linear, about 1.5 millimeters 

 long, rich red-brown, exuviae paler and yellower. Female great- 

 ly elongated, sides not prominently lobed, yellowish, turning 

 green when boiled in KOH ; median lobes of caudal area large and 

 dark, together forming a semicircle, margins crenate or dentate 

 with six small teeth; second lobes represented by two small 

 lobules, the first rounded and the second pointed; beyond this a 

 rudimentary prominence behind a spine; laterad of the spine a 

 large spinelike plate ; remainder of the margin divided into two 

 or three flattened lobules, beyond which is a spinelike plate 

 (Plate VI, fig. 6). Circumgenital glands with anterior and pos- 

 terior laterals each of about 8 orifices, median of 4. 



Male scale about 0.5 millimeter long, white, parallel-sided, 

 with a slight median keel, larval skin pale orange-fulvous. 



Luzon, Laguna, Los Banos {Baker), on Uvaria sp. 



Hemichionaspis townsendi Cockerell. 



Hemichionaspis townsendi Cockerell, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci. 

 (1905), 10, 135. 



Female scale pyriform, rather broad, varying to nearly circu- 

 lar, light grayish to yellowish, exuviae a little yellower. Female 

 insect rather short, four large rounded prominences on each 

 side, light j^ellowish with some blue pigment after boiling ; median 

 lobes contiguous, low and broad with four crenulations formed 

 by three notches, the first being very deep and strong; second 

 lobes rudimentary, scarcely rising above the general margin ; 

 first squames small and spinelike, the others (three single ones 

 at rather long intervals and then a pair) very large and long 

 (Plate VI, fig. 7). Circumgenital glands with median group of 



