THE EUROPEAN ELM SCALE IN THE WEST. - 
LARV. 
Figst Srace (Pu. I, B). 
Color bright yellow soon after hatching. Length 0.45 millimeter; width 
0.19 millimeter. Of an elongate oval form, rounded anteriorly and tapering 
posteriorly to a pair of pointed processes, each bearing one long and several 
short sete. Anal ring, occurring between these processes or lobes, with six 
setz or hairs. Legs rather stout, with short tibize. Usual two pairs of thoracic 
spiracles present. A single row of blunt spines on the lateral margin of larva 
and a double row extending down the back, some reduced to rudiments. Also 
winter on corky elm 
(Doten. ) 
Fic. 3.—Females of the European elm scale: 1, Dead females in 
(natural size) ; 2, living females in summer (enlarged about 4 diameters). 
six extra spines on head and a number of very small spines on dorsum. An- 
tenn (Pl. III, A) rather stout and 6-segmented, sixth segment longest, fourth 
and fifth subequal and shortest, each segment bearing several hairs. 
SEconD Stace (Pt. I, C). 
Full-grown second-stage larva reddish brown in color. (In life of a gray 
appearance, due to the protruding wax.) 3ody oval in outline, rounded ante- 
riorly and rather pointed posteriorly, about 1.1 millimeters long and 0.6 milli 
meter wide. Eyes situated near margin of body behind antennz. Legs rather 
long and slender. Two pairs of thoracic spiracles present. Anal ring com- 
pound, bearing six sete and situated between two prominent pointed anal 
lobes, each bearing a long slender spine on its tip, also several shorter spines 
on lobes. Entire dorsum covered with stout blunt spines and arranged more 
or less in two rows on each abdominal segment. Few small spines on venter. 
