^ : . INSECTS OF SAMOA. 



24. Aspidiotus destructor Sign. 



This is stated by Sasscer {Joum. Econ. Ent., Vol. VIII, p. 269, 1915) to have 

 been intercepted on coconuts imported from Tutuila into America. The 

 species has a wide distribution throughout the Oceanic Islands, but must be 

 very rare in Samoa, for, although efJorts were made to obtain specimens, it 

 was not represented in the collections. 



25. Aspidiotus lataniae (Sign.) Green 



Upolu, on Ptychosperma vitiensis (Lindinger, op. cit., p. 175). If Lindinger 

 based his determination on the insect described under this name by Green in his 

 Coccidae of Ceylon, I, p. 49, the record should refer to A. destructor. It may be, 

 however, the true A. lataniae, of Signoret, of which A. cydoniae Comst. may or 

 may not be a synonym. With doubt existing as to which species the authors 

 had before them, we prefer to keep the records of A. cydoniae, A. destructor 

 and A. lataniae distinct. 



26. Aspidiotus pangoensis Doane and Ferris * 



On coconut husks, Pago Pago. We have had this species also from Fiji- 

 on the same host plant. 



27. Aspidiotus maskelli Ckll. 



Intercepted on oranges imported into California from Samoa (Maskew, 

 MtUy. Bull. Calif ornian State Commiss. Hort., Vol. V, p. 75, 1916). 



28. Chrysomphalus buxtoni sp. n. Text-fig. 2. 



Puparium deep brown to black, subcircular to elliptical, flattish around the 

 marginal area gradually rising to the very low nipple-like deep black excentric 

 larval exuvium ; surface somewhat irregular and deposited in concentric layers. 

 Size 4-5 mm. by 3 mm. in elliptical specimens, 3 mm. diameter in subcircular 

 ones. 



Adult female broadly pyriform ; longish setae sparsely distributed around 

 the margin of cephalothorax and abdomen and on the dorsal surface of the 

 former ; antennae consisting of a minute tubercle with a long curved seta ; 

 no parastigmatic pores. Pygidium with 3 pairs of lobes each with a more or 



