50 THE WOMBAT. 



Sub-family HEMICOCCIN.E. 



Genus KERMES, Auctorum. 

 K. acacle, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1893, p. 83. 

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

 I have given a good deal of consideration as to the 

 advisability of retaining the old genera Aster olecanium and 

 Lecaniodiasj)is, and I have resolved to follow Professor T. D. A. 

 Cockerell and place them in the sub-family, Asterolecaniin^e, 

 chiefly on account of priority. Prosopophora, Douglas, now 

 takes rank as a sub-genus. This is a reversion of Maskell's 

 system of classification, who repeatedly dilated upon the 

 necessity (based upon clearness and common-sense) of placing 

 Prosopophora and Planchonia in the sub-family Coccin^e, and 

 it is just doubtful as to whether the considerations advanced 

 by that great Coccid authority are not sufficient to warrant 

 future students adhering to his nomenclature. Certainly I 

 agree with Maskell as to the misleading and indeed confusing 

 name of Aster olecanium 



Sub-family ASTEROLECANIIN^. 



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 Genus LECANIODIASPIS, Targioni-Tozzetti. 



Sub-genus Prosopophora, Douglas. 



P. acaci/E, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1892, p. 225. 

 Hub. In S. Australia on Acacia calamifolia. 



P. atherosperm.e, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1895, P- 39^- 



Hab. In Victoria on Athei'osperma moschata (sassafras), 

 (Black Spur, Fernshaw) 



P. eucalypti, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N Z. Inst., 1892, p. 226. 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on Eucalyptus sp. (Whitton) 



Genus ASTEROLECANIUM, (Planchonia) Targioni. 



A. bryoides, var. stellata, Maskell. 



Mask. Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1896, p. 316. 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on Exocarpus cupressiformis (Cumber- 

 land). Perhaps a distinct species. 



:; ' A. fimbkiatum, Boyer de Fonscolombe. 



Boyer de Fons. Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1834, 

 p. 209 ; Sign. Ann. de la Soc. Ent. de France, 1868, p. 283 ; 

 Mask. loc. cit, 1853, P- ^5 > ^■■> ^94, P- 61. 



Hab. In N.S.Wales on Leptospermum Jlavescens. Exo- 

 genetic. 



