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Data. — Described from unmounted specimens (paratopes) and the 

 following mounted material: Six females and 19 larvae from 

 Phognolon annotk-um. near Ragusa. Dalmatia. Yugoslavia, O. Jaap, 

 March 25. 1914, No. 217, including holotype : 3 females and 8 larvae 

 from Pittospomm tohira. Sardinia, Chermotheea Icalica IV, No. 87: 

 3 females and 14 larvae on CoromUa valentina, Menton, France. April 

 6, 1863, U. S. N. H. : 1 female and 2 larvae from Phagnalon saxatile, 

 Algeria. A. Balachowsky. December 25, 1926, from E. E. Green: 1 

 female and 6 larvae from Salvia sp., Antioch. Syria. F. H. Boden- 

 heimer. 1933. from A. Balachowsky; 1 female and 1 larva from 

 Pittospomm. sp.. Palermo. Italy, Chermotheea Italica, received from 

 E. E. Green in 1933: 1 female and 6 larvae from Pittospomm sp., 

 Naples. Italy, and 1 female and 2 larvae from Templetonia sp., Paler- 

 mo. Italy, received from F. Silvestri in May 1934. 



Closely related to arabidis, fimbr -iafum. lawneae, nevadetise, and 

 stentae, but differing from each of these in lacking a marginal row 

 of quinquelocular pores. 



SPECIES UNKNOWN TO THE AUTHOR 



ASTEROLECAXIUM BORXMUELLERI Rtibsaamen 



Described in 1902 (82, pp. 311±-316. 336) from specimens collected 

 on Quercus persica in South Persia, in the Province of Farsistan near 

 Myan-Kotel, between Schiraz and Kaserun. 



Although the description is incomplete, the writer is of the opinion 

 that this is a valid species, and is not a synonym of uariolosum as 

 Lindinger stated in 1912 (61, p. 360). 



Asterolecanium ceriferum variety promixexs Green 



This variety, described in 1909 (42. p. 320) from specimens collected 

 on Oxytenanthera thwaitesii, Nuwara Eliya. Ceylon, is said to differ 

 from the typical form "principally in the form of the female test, 

 which, seen in profile, slopes distinctly upwards to the posterior ex- 

 tremity." The author adds, "Structure of adult female as in type : 

 the marginal paired pores slightly larger and more distinct." Unless 

 there are other differences between the two. the validity of ceriferum 

 prominens is questionable. 



Asterolecaxium CONiMBRiGENSE Coutiiiho Saraiva 



Described in 1936 (28. pp. 1-18) from specimens collected on 

 Quercus humilis and Q. Kybrida, presumably from near Coimbra, 

 Portugal. Cmitinho Saraiva -tales that this species is closely related 

 to seabrai (see discussion under stub rat on p. 231). 



Lecanium eburneum Hevd 



en 



Described in 1860 (32. p. 90) from specimens collected on IL dera 

 //'//>. Neuchatel. Switzerland. Mayr, in 1876 (71, p. 769), discussed 

 some parasites of Coccus eburneus Heyden, and Lindinger, in 1935 

 (63. p. 130). indicated that the name eburneum proposed by Heyden 

 and used by Mayr was a synonym of fimbriatum. The species is an- 



