8 MISC. PUBLICATION 344, U. 8. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
(4, p. 299) also seems to have overlooked previously suggested 
synonymy of Maskell’s variety with blanchardi, since he lists it as 
valid among the coccids that have been reported from the date palm. 
Adult female.—Eyespot present, a prominent, well-sclerotized, rounded disk. 
Anterior spiracle with pores adjacent, the number ranging from 1 to 8, usually 
2 or 3; posterior spiracles without derm pocket adjacent, between spiracle and 
body margin. Duct tubercles wholly lacking. Submarginal dorsal macroducts 
comparatively few in number, relatively inconspicuous, 7 to 9 noted in specimens 
examined. Intermediate dorsal macroducts wholly lacking, but with a few 
widely scattered microducts in this area, extending anteriorly from 1 or 2 
above each anterior lateral paragenital cluster. No cicatrices observed on 
dorsum of abdomen. A single sclerotized oval fleck dorsally anterior to each 
fourth lobe; no others observed. Three pairs of lobes plainly developed, char- 
acteristically entire, or at most slightly notched or serrate, spatulate, usually 
with internal extension, appearing plainly longer than wide; location of fourth 
lobes marked by a slight, apically roughened, not or very slightly sclerotized 
protrusion of the margin. Plates short and stubby; anterior plates suggesting 
gland spines, those posterior to fourth lobes plainly though not conspicuously 
dentate, those between the third and fourth lobes the broadest, none very 
wide as in some other species. Paragenitals in 4 groups, no median anterior 
present; range in number of anterior laterals in specimens tabulated 1 to 14, 
average 8; range of posterior laterals 0 to 10, average 6. | 
The combination of characters that appears to distinguish this 
species includes complete absence of prosomal or other duct tubercles, 
relatively very large eyespot, characteristically entire, short spatulate 
first to third lobes, and small number of submarginal dorsal ducts. 
Specimens of this insect on date palm (Palmae) have been ex- 
amined from the following localities: Algeria, Arabia, Arizona, Aus- 
traha, California, Egypt, India, Iraq, Palestine, Sudan, Tripoh, 
Tunis, and Turkey. 
PARLATORIA CAMELLIAE Comstock | 
CPis2, A. pls tC sap. LO ©) | 
Comstock in 1883 (7/3, p. 114) first differentiated this insect from 
the other species of Parlatoria then known, but considered that it 
should stand only as a variety of pergandiz. For many years there- 
after no new records for the occurrence of this insect appeared in 
the literature, the second such report apparently bemg that made by 
King (29, p. 62) in 1902, when he announced the discovery of the 
species in the Harvard Botanical Garden. In 1912 (54, p. 739) for the 
first time the insect was reported from Japan at quarantine on 
Camellia and Acer. 
Adult female—kHyespot plainly present but not conspicuous, irregularly cir- 
cular to oval, more or less protruding to hemispherical or even more elongate, 
but never approximating the shape of a short, stout spine or spur. Anterior 
spiracles with 2 to 4 pores adjacent; posterior spiracles with a relatively dis- 
tinct, although not large or conspicuous, derm pocket about one-third of dis- 
tance between spiracle and margin. Duct tubercles fairly numerous and 
rather strongly conical but with apex rounded, with more or less spreading of 
the sclerotic area around the base of each; numbers on each side as follows: 
Prespiracular 2 to 4, anterior spiracular 2 to 5, intermediate 4 to 6, posterior 
spiracular 4 to 6, first abdominal 3 to 7, totals 15 to 28. Submarginal dorsal 
ducts few, 20 to 28 on each side of body, extending onto second abdominal seg- 
ment. No dorsal intermediate macroducts near middle of body; instead on each 
side with 2 to 4 intermediate microducts above the anterior lateral paragenitals 
and 5 to 12 microducts on preceding segment, at edge of sclerotized dorsal area 
of pygidium: rarely with a submedian microduct in line with the intrapygidial 
row, 1 or 2 opposite prepygidial’ row and with from 1 to 4 intermediate micro- 
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