SCALE INSECTS OF THE GENUS PARLATORIA 13 
remainder strongly fimbriate with numerous slender projections, 1 or 2 to each 
plate usually slightly stouter and somewhat more conspicuous; 3 wide plates 
between third and fourth lobes; 4 wide plates between fourth and fifth lobes. 
Paragenitals few in number, in 4 groups; anterior laterals 6, posterior laterals 
® to 7 in specimens tabulated; totals, range 22 to 24, average 23. 
The strong prosomal marginal spur, usually plainly evident, to- 
gether with the triangular sclerotized fourth lobe of the pyg oidium, 
@ives a positive basis “for the differentiation of this form from the 
others here considered. Although not distinctive, other characters 
that should be considered in conjunction are the small number of 
duct tubercles, the total per side for all segments ranging from 7 
tom the apparent lack of cicatrices and sclerotic flecks, and the 
small number of paragenitals. 
In the literature, so far as this has been examined, this insect has 
been reported on croton (Codaeum, Kuphorbiaceae) from Massa- 
chusetts and Ohio (in greenhouses); from Central America and 
Panama; from British Guiana; from Antigua, Cuba, Haiti, and 
Jamaica in the West Indies; from England (in greenhouses) ; from 
Italy; from Egypt; from India; and from the Hawaiian Islands. 
From the island of Formosa (Taiwan) Takahashi (50, p. 75, 52, p. 
103; 53, p. 4) has reported this species from Acer (Aceraceae), 
Dendrobium (Orchidaceae), Ficus (Moraceae), and Z//ictum (Mag- 
noliaceae). From an examination of specimens involved in the rec- 
ord, Brain’s report (3, p. 2/2) of the presence of Parlatoria per- 
gandiu on croton in South Africa proves to relate to crotonis rather 
than pergandi. 
Specimens in the collection that have been examined were taken 
on croton from California, the District of Columbia, [hnois, Lou- 
isiana, Massachusetts, New ‘Yor k, Ohio, all but those from Louisiana 
presumably under glass; from Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Pan- 
ama, Canal Zone, and British Guiana in continental North America 
south of the United States; from Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, 
St. Lucia, and Trinidad in the West Indies; from England; and 
from the Hawaiian Islands. There are a few coJlections reported 
as from other hosts, but they represent no localities additional to 
those already listed, and a possibility exists that error may have 
crept into the records with at least some of these collections, on which 
account they are not discussed here. 
PARLATORIA FULLERI, new name 
(Rl 3s By pl. 8B > ple 1052h) 
In August 1897 Fuller (22, p. 1344), in a paper entitled “Some 
Coccidae of Western Australia,” mentioned a “P. viridus n. sp. on 
Pittosporum, Perth,” but without description other than an indica- 
tion that it was near pittosport Maskell. ‘Two years later (23, p. 467) 
he gave the species validity through the publication of a fairly ex- 
tended description in a more detailed paper on Western Australian 
Coccidae. The insect is listed as valid under this name in various 
catalogs, including those of Fernald (19, p. 322) and Froggatt (27, 
p. 603), and by some obscure twist is held by Palmer 6, p. 142) 
to take precedence over viridis Cockerell (6, p. 27), 1896, nae to 
be a synonym of proteus Curtis. In the face of Cockerell’s belief 
