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10 MISC. PUBLICATION 34, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
PARLATORIA CINEREA Hadden 
(BYS2 Be Eee cpleet Ody) 
Originally described in a paper by }*cane and Hadden (16, p. 299), 
in subsequent hterature this insect ws credited to these two authors 
until Lindinger (55, p. 151) stated that the species properly should 
be credited to Cockerell and Hadden. An examination of the or 1g- 
nal paper shows, however, that the species must be credited to Miss 
Hadden alone, since the introduction (76, p. 296) states that “Miss 
Hadden * * * should be credited with the new species of 
Parlatoria.” 
Although it has been mentioned in hterature under this name only 
a few times, the species is already much involved in synonymy, 
and present evidence indicates that it is not only very widely dis- 
tributed but is of definite actual or potential economic importance. 
Since 1899 specimens of this insect have stood in the national col- 
lection of Coccidae under the manuscript name braz/iensis, the first 
specimens having come from material from Brazil intercepted at the 
port of Hamburg, Germany. Subsequently the species has been en- 
countered many ‘times from Brazil on citrus fruits reaching ports 
in the United States, and it was finally, in 1934, described from 
Citrus from that country by Costa Lima (Gu p. 134) as Parlatoria 
fluggeae variety brasiliensis. His description and accompanying 1l- 
lustration are so good as to leave no doubt regarding the identity 
of the species. 
For many years the Bureau of Entomology when identifying this 
species used the name Parlatoria braziliensis ms. or brasiliensis ms., 
and this designation appeared at least twice in literature, Reinking 
and Groff (47, p. 426) reporting the insect as abundant on pomelo 
in Siam in 1921 and Woodworth (56, p. 52) listing it in 1922 from the 
Philippine Islands on @7frus, in neither case with sufficient descrip- 
tive information to fix the name. 
Another name for this Insect was proposed in 1932 when Kuwana 
32, p. 15) described, in Japanese, the species pseudopyri on Jasmi- 
num from China. Here again the information supplied is sufficient 
to permit definite placing of this name as a synonym of cinerea. 
Tn 1936 Lindinger (35, p. 151) placed cinerea as a synonym of Par- 
latoria oleae C olvée, an unfortunate action in view of the economic 
importance of both insects, normal specimens of which can _ be 
differentiated readily. 
Adult female—Eyespot normally present, but very obscure and easily over- 
looked, only slightly differentiated from adjacent derm. Not located on every 
specimen examined, and perhaps actually wanting on some. Each anterior 
spiracle with a number of disk pores adjacent, range from 5 to 11 in material 
eXamined; no dermal pocket observed between posterior spiracle and margin, 
but a straggling row of small tubular ducts in this area. Duct tubercles vary- 
ing considerably in shape and size, from relatively short, broad, rounded conical! 
to high, narrow, rounded conical, the short form most frequent; not numerous, 
prespiracular 1 to 4, anterior spiracular 3 to 4, intermediate 2 to 4, posterior 
spiracular 1 to 4, first abdominal 1. Submarginal dorsal tubular macroducts 
intermediate in number, extending from apex of pygidium onto second ab- 
dominal segment: numbers for each side of body ranging from 37 to 50. Inter- 
mediate tubular macroducts present, characteristically, on each half of body, 
with a row of 3 or 4 inside paragenitals close to anal opening, and an elongate 
cluster of 838 to 9 above or ,just outside paragenitals and still within 
