482 Insect Pests. 



A^ewsteacl (1) records findiiis it in Delainere Forest on bireli^ and 

 in Chesliire it has been ibund ou willow. Xewstead also records it 



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-\\III'rK on AMH")[,LY A'INE Si.ALK. 



{J'lilciiiaria rilii.) 



from Chicliester, Doncaster and near Maidstone, from Stonehouse, 



Devon, and records it as lieing common on peach in a few localities 



in Cheshire. 



Douglas has found it on birch at Lewisham and records it from 



Hereford on \ines. Specimens ha\'e been sent me from several 



localities in ^Middlesex and Surre}- and 

 two from Kent, all on vines and peaches 

 under glass. Fernald (2) records it from 

 the United States. 



The young female resembles the 

 reach Scale (LccuniKin jicrsicrr), later it 

 liecomes transversely wrinkled with a 

 deep cleft at one end with a median pale 

 oclireous or deep brownish-red line and 

 tlie edge of the scale turned upwards, and 

 a dense pad of ^vhite wool appears foreiug 

 one end of the insect away from the sur- 

 face of the iilant, and the female becomes 

 mure wrinkled and often, I find, of a 



leaden-grey colour. It is figured natural size. 



The larva' liave two anal seta' wliieh are about half the length of 

 the bodv. 



(lii'eatly L'liliir,! 



