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* M. pomorum, Bouche. 



(syns. Asp. concldformis, auct. Asp. pyrus-malus, Kennicott. 

 Asp. juglandis, Fitch. Asp. falciformis, Baren. Myt. pomicorticis, 

 Riley. Also a var. fiava, Targ.) 



Bouche, Ent. Zeit. Stett., 1851, XII ; Kennicott, Acad. 

 Sci. Clevel., 1854. Sign. Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 

 186S, p. 98 ; Mask. loc. cit., 1878, p. 192 ; Scale Inst, of N.Z., 

 1887, p. 51. 



Hab. In Australia (all parts) on apple, pear, plum, 

 hawthorn, etc. ; also now recorded for the first time on 

 Prunas amygdalus. Vernacularly and universally known as 

 " mussel scale." 



M. pallens, Maskell. 



var. alba, Mask. (Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1895, P- 3^8.) 

 Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1889, p. 134. 

 Hab. In N.S.Wales on Xanthorrhea sp. 



M. striata, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1894, p. 47. 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on Casuarina sp. (Sydney) 



M. spinifera, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1893, p. 69. 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on Acacia pendul a (Urana). 



Genus LEUCASPIS, Targioni-Tozzetti. 



L. cordylinidis, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1892, p. 209. 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on Curdyline sp. (Sydney). 



Genus POLIASPIS, Maskell. 



P. casuarina, Lidgett. 



Lidgt. Wombat, Vol. IV.— No. 1. 1898. p. 14. 

 Hab. In Victoria on Casuarina suberosa (Myrniong) 



P. exocarpi, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1891, p. 17; ib., 1893, p. 72; 

 ib., 1894, P- 5 2 ; ib., 1895, p. 391 ; ib., 1896, p. 307. 



Hab. In Australia on Fxccarpus cupressiformis (Victoria), 

 on Santcdum (N. Australia), on Oxylobium trilobatum (N.S.W.) 



Genus CHIONASPIS, Signoret. 



C. assimilis, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1887-88, p. 102. 

 Hab. In South Australia on Eucalyptus, sp. 



* C. brasiliensis, Signoret. 



Sign. Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1868, p. 444. 

 Mask. loc. cit., 1892, p. 210 ; ib., 1893, p. 68. Cockerell, 

 Journ. Trinidad Club, 1894, P- 3°6- 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on orchid, (Tweed River). In 

 Ceylon on fern (E. E. Green). 



