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Data. — Redescribed from unmounted material, 2 mounted females, 

 and 12 mounted larvae on Bambusa sp., Algeria, loaned by M. Beier, 

 presumably type material; a mass of unmounted material, approxi- 

 mately 100 mounted females, several mounted second-stage specimens, 

 and several mounted larvae, on Bambusa argentea, B. balcooa, B. 

 spinosa, B. vulgaris, B. vulgaris var. aurea-striata, and unknown 

 genera of Bambuseae; from Illinois (in greenhouses), Florida, Ber- 

 muda, Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Culebra Island, Montserrat, St. 

 Kitts, Canal Zone, Trinidad, British Guiana; Kauai and Honolulu, 

 Hawaii ; Luzon, Philippine Islands ; Kwangsi, China ; Lahore, India ; 

 Peradeniya, Ceylon ; and Brisbane, Australia. 



Asterolecanium miliaris variety robustum Green 



(Fig. 41, H; pi. 5, F) 



Described in 1908 (Ifl, p. 19) on bamboo from Pusa, India. The 

 form erroneously treated by Green in 1909 (1$, p. 339) under the name 

 Asterolecanium miliaris longum is identical with miliaris robustum 

 i (see discussion on p. 122). 



The marginal quinquelocular pores furnish an adequate basis for 

 distinguishing miliaris miliaris and miliaris robustum. In the typical 

 form these pores start between the antenna and anterior spiracular 

 pore band and end approximately halfway between the posterior 

 spiracular pore band and the last marginal 8-shaped pore. In 

 miliaris robusUim, however, the quinquelocular pores are either absent 

 or occur in a group of 2 to 15 (usually less than 6) where each spiracu- 

 lar pore band meets the body margin. Other characters, including 

 the shape of the specimens and the distance between the marginal 

 8-shaped pores mentioned by Green (lil, p. 19; 1$, P- 339), have not 

 been found sufficiently constant for differentiating the two varieties. 



Data. — Redescribed from unmounted material, three mounted fe- 

 males, and four mounted larvae on Bambusa oliveriana, Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, E. E. Green, December 1898; unmounted material and three 

 mounted females on Bambusa sp., Pusa, India, April 1906, from E. E. 

 Green, type ; a mass of unmounted material, hundreds of mounted fe- 

 males, many mounted second-stage specimens, and many mounted 

 larvae, on Bambusa arundinacea, B. nana, B. pallescens, B. spinosa, 

 B. tulda, B. vulgaris, B. vulgaris var. aureo-variegata and var. vul- 

 garis, and Bambusa sp., Dendrocalamus strictus and D. thouarsii, 

 O an/ tenant her a abyssinica, Phyllostachys sp., and unknown genera of 

 Bambuseae, from Malanje, Angola; Amani, Tanganyika; Mauritius; 

 Assam, Bangalore, and Lahore, India; Ceylon; Moulmein, Lower 

 Burma; Kwangsi and Kwangtung, China; Nisui, Taiwan (Formosa) ; 

 Philippine Islands; Tongatabu, Tonga Islands; Fiji Islands; Bahia 

 and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; British Guiana ; near Caracas, Venezuela ; 

 Trinidad ; Canal Zone ; West Indies ; Florida ; and Bermuda. 



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Asterolecanium mimicum, new species 



(Fig. 41, I-N; fig. 42, A; pi. 7, 8) 



Habit. — Living on stems, and on the lower surface of leaves. 



Test of female. — Elongate, 1 mm. long, 0.3-0.4 wide, posterior end narrowed; 

 strongly convex dorsally, sloping sharply from median line to margin; flat 

 ventrally; greenish yellow, transparent, thin, smooth, shiny; marginal filaments 



