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A. (Chry8omphalu8) perseae Comst. — 9 scale circular, flat; exuviae nearly central and 
covered; outer part of scale dark reddish-brown, that covering exuviae from 
dark gray to black; diaui. of scale from 11 to 2 mm. Has a general resem- 
blance to A. ficus. 9 with 4 groups of ventral glands. On Per sea carolinensis, 
Florida. Mexico, on cocoanut palm. 
A. (Xeroj>hi1asj)is) prosopidis Ckll. — 9 scale about I mm. diam., slightly convex, cir- 
cular to very broad pyriforni. pitch-black, with large uncovered exuvia>, which 
may be slightly greenish or brownish. 9 with four small lobes, no groups of 
ventral glands; a cephalic protuberance after the manner of personatus. 
Near Phcenix, Ariz., on I'rosojiis. 
A. (Chrysomphalus) smilacis Comst. — 9 scale circular; exuviae central; color brown to 
very dark gray: exuviae marked by a white dot and ring. No grouped glands; 
:; pairs of lobes, median smallest, second and third pairs notched. On Smilax 
at Woods Holl, Mass. 
A. Chrysomphalus) tenebricosus Comst. — 9 scale very dark gray; the protuberance 
indicating the position of the exuviae marked by ;i white dot and concentric 
ring, but smooth and black in rubbed specimens. The scale is very convex, 
diam. 11 mm. $ scale oval. On deer rubrum : Washington, 1). C. 
A. (Diaspidiotus) townsendi Ckll. — 9 scale 1A mm. diam., circular or slightly oval, 
quite Hat, thin, grayish-white; 
exuviae covered, pale orange. 9 
orange ; 2 pairs of rounded lobes, 
(bur groups of ventral glands, 
i ephalolaterals 1 to 8, caudolat- 
erals 5. On leaves of some tree. 
Coahnila, Mexico. (Bull. 4, 
Tech. Ser., Div. Knt., p. 32.) 
A. (Hemiberlesia) ulmi Johns. — 9 scale 
quite convex, whitish, exuviae 
orange-yellow. 9 lemon-yellow, 
only one pair of lobes, no groups 
of ventral glands. On trunk of 
(Intus americana at Urbana, 111. 
Although Johnson found no ventral grouped glands, he alludes to eggs. 
( Diaspidiotus) uvae Comst. — 9 scale flat, nearly circular, light yellow-brown; exu- 
viae bright yellow, covered with a white secretion. $ scale elongated. 9 with 
second and third pairs of lobes obsolete; grouped glands present. On grape- 
vines, Indiana, etc.: on hickory in Florida. 
A. meuaketli, CM|. 
(su^tj. "moraa.^tUo/3 
Fio. li.—Aspidiottu mask-ill! (original). 
Sandwich Islands. 
(Morganella, n. subg.) maskelli Ckll. n. sp. (Fig. 14.) — 9 scale 1 mm. diam., tolerably 
convex, circular to broad oval, pitch-black; exuviae concolorous, very incon- 
spicuous, placed toward the side. 9 with no groups of ventral glands. Differs 
from ./. longi8pinus by the contiguous lobes, the tirst pair of spines short, three 
following pairs very long, and thirteen strongly serrated and divided plates 
on each side of the lobes. It is evidently what Maskell recorded as A. loiuji- 
spina in Trans. N. /. Inst., xxvii, 38. Div. Knt. (><)*(>, "on Ohia tree, from W. 
S. Wait, Kailua, N. Kona. Hawaii, 23 Dec, 18!)3." The subg. Morganella (after 
the describer of one of the species) will be known by the closely adjacent or 
contiguous median lobes, which are long aud slender, the absence of other 
lobes, the anal oritice at base of lobes, and especially the very long spines. 
