364 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Hartford, 29 March, 1905; Middlebury, 26 Nov., 1906; Greenwich, 22 

 Apr., 17 Oct., 1910; New Haven, 29 Oct., 1912; 11 Sept., 1916; Apr., 1920; 

 Stratford, 20 Aug., 1913, 29 Aug., 1919; Bridgeport, 24 Nov., 1915: 

 Bantam, 29 Nov., 1916; Norwalk, 6 Oct., 1916; Stamford, 29 Apr., 1919; 

 Wilton, 28 Oct., 1920; Saugatuck, 1 March, 1921 ; New Canaan, 23 July, 

 1921. 



C. furfura (Fitch). Aspidiotus furfurus. Aspidiotus harrisi. 

 Scurfy scale. (PL xiv, 4.) 



Rept. Ins. N. Y., iii, 352, 1856. 



Scale of female: Length 2-2.5 mm., white or light gray, broadly 

 pyriform and flat, often curved, exuviae yellowish brown. 



Female : Median lobes broadly rounded, entire, converging, 

 striate; five groups of circumgenital gland-orifices; median 7-16; 

 anterior lateral, 22-32; posterior lateral, 16-22. 



Scale of male : Length .7-1 mm. ; white, exuviae pale yellow, 

 covering about one-third ; distinctly tricarinate. 



This species winters in the form of purplish eggs under the 

 female scale. These eggs hatch the last week in May. There is 

 but one brood each year. This insect is a minor pest and is com- 

 mon on apple, pear, currant and hawthorn throughout the state. 

 The records in the office of the State Entomologist show that it 

 has been received more than one hundred times from sixty-two 

 towns, each county being represented. 



Variety fulva King was described from Massachusetts on 

 Rhamnns cathartica on account of its unusual color due to the 

 overlying epidermis. 

 C. lintneri Comstock. 



Second Rept. Dept. Ent, Cornell Univ., 103, 1883. 



Scale of female: Length 2.5-3.2 mm. ; dull, dirty white, exuviae 

 yellowish brown; broadly pyriform, flattened, thin and flexible. 



Female: Median lobes obscurely pointed and faintly serrate. 

 Five groups of circumgenital gland-orifices ; median groups n -19; 

 anterior lateral, 25-42 ; posterior lateral, 19-28. 



Scale of male: Length .8-1 mm. ; white, exuviae yellow or 

 colorless, extending about two-fifths the length, parallel-sided, 

 narrow, distinctly tricarinate. 



This species is a native of the United States and occurs on alder, 

 birch, spice bush, Cornus and Viburnum. 



Stonington, 18 May, 1907. 

 C. ortholobis Comstock. 



Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr., 317, 1881. 



Scale of female: Length 2-2.5 mm., dirty white, exuviae brown, 

 pyriform, somewhat elongated, broadest at middle. 



Female: Median lobes straight, parallel, and close together, 

 rounded apically, sometimes serrate exterio-laterally. Median 

 group of circumgenital gland-orifices, 10-25 ; anterior lateral, 

 18-35 > posterior lateral, 16-24. 



