HEMIPTERA. 



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this country; and Figure 211, the hemispherical scale, 

 Lecaniitm heinisphcericuin (hem-i-sphaer^i-cum), which occurs 

 in conservatories everywhere, and in the open air in Cali- 

 fornia. 



The Armored-scales Sub-family DiaspincE (Di-as-pi'nse). — 

 The great majority of the common scale insects of this 



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Fig. 2TI. — Lecaniuin hemisphcericuin ; 3^, insect enlarged. (From the Author''s Report 



for 1880.) 



country differ from the forms described above in that the 

 body of the insect, except for a very short period after 

 birth, is covered with a scale composed in part of an excre- 

 tion of the insect and partly of molted skins. Thus in the 

 Lecaniums the scale-like object is the body of the insect; 

 but in the case of the Oyster-shell Bark-louse, the Pernicious 



