NO. 34.] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: COCCIDAE. 



353 



P. americanae King and Cockerell. 



Can. Ent., xxix, 91, 1897. 



Female: Length 3.5mm., without wax secretion or spines, 

 reddish brown. 



Occurring in nest of the ant, Lasius americanus, in 

 Massachusetts. 



Pseudococcus Westwood. 



Dactylopius Targioni-Tozzetti. 



Mealy Bugs. 



Body oval, covered with a thick white mealy secretion, not 

 obscuring segmentation; margins bearing equidistant white 

 waxen appendages, which are longer posteriorly than laterally. 

 Forming ovisac in leaf sheaths and axils. 



Female : Antennae of eight joints ; the eighth being longer than 

 the seventh ; anal lobes small or rudimentary ; anal ring with six 

 hairs. 



Antenna 



-Leg 



Mouth parts 



Spiracles 



Spiracuiar 

 """ spines 



Anal 

 plates 



1° 



V 



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Fig. 33. Coccid structures (Coccinae and Dactylopiinae) . (1) Saissetia 

 hemisphaerica Targioni-Tozzetti, ventral view. (2) Derm pores and margin 

 of same, — greatly enlarged. (3) Pseudococcus citri Risso, — anal ring 

 (after Dietz and Morrison). Greatly enlarged. Drawing by Dr. Philip 

 Garman. 



