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Patria Incerta. 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) alo83 Boisd. — 9 scale white; exuviae central and yellow. Median 
lobes large; grouped glands present. Allied to nerii. On Aloe umbellata f 
Europe. (Signoret, Essai, 1869, p. 114). 
A. (Aonidiella) airantii Mask.— 9 scale light gray, but appearing orange or reddish 
from the insect showing through ; exuviae marked by a nipple-like prominence. 
9 reniform, three pairs of lobes, no groups of ventral glands. On Citrus trees 
in California, Australia, and the western Mediterranean region. On lignum- 
vitae principally, never on Citrus, in Jamaica. A variety on Podocarpus in 
Japan, collected by Mr. Takahashi at Tokio. New Zealand, Fiji Is., Sandwich 
Is., Samoa, Tonga, Now Caledonia; on cocoa-nut in Central America; on Tax us 
in Italy; on Citrus japonica at the University of Arizona, sent by Prof. Tourney. 
var. citrinm Coquill. — A yellow variety. California; Japan. According to How- 
ard, this occurs on the leaves and fruit, never on the bark. See Insect Life, 
Feb., 1891, p. 228. Howard records three parasites from v. citrinus, all different 
from the three bred from typical aurantii. 
A. {Aspidiotus s. sir. ) buddleias Sign. — $ scale circular, white ; exuviae yellow. Ventral 
grouped glands present. On lluddleia salicina, hothouses of the Luxembourg. 
Maskell reports it on Acacia in New Zealand. 
A. (Aspidiotus 8. str.?) chamaeropsis Sign. — 9 scale elongated, transparent; exuviae 
yellow and to one side. Lobes terminated by long hairs; grouped glands 
present. On Chamarops australis. (Essai, 1>69, p. 118.) 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) cyanophylh Sign. — 9 scale circular, brownish yellow; exuviae 
central, bright yellow but covered by white secretion. Median lobes large; 
plates long and branched, 4 small groups of ventral glands, 3 to 5 in a group. 
On Cyanophyllum, Paris (Signoret) ; on Ficus, U. S. (Comstock, Cornell Rep. 
1883, p. 59). On palm and Cycas in Ceylon, according to Green, but his insect 
is a different species, A. greenii, n. sp., at least so far as the form sent to me is 
concerned. 
A. ( A spidiotus s. str.) cycadcola Boisd. — 9 scale circular, white; exuviae central, yel- 
low; median lobes large; grouped glands present. $ with the thoracic baud 
large. On Cycas reroluta, Europe. (Signoret, Essai, 1869, p. 119). 
A. (Chrysomplialus) degeneratus Leon. — 9 scale greenish, convex, about 1^ mm. long. 
9 pale yellow, three pairs of lobes; serrated plates; chitiuous processes at 
base of lobes hardly longer than the lobes; four groups of ventral glands, not 
over 4 in a group. On leaves of Camellia japonica. Italy. (Riv. Pat. Veget., 
IV, 345.) 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) destructor Sign. — 9 scale circular, Hat, yellowish or whitish; 
exuviae large, central. 9 with three pairs of lobes, or even a fourth clearly dis- 
tinguishable, and scale-like divided plates; the level of the tips of the median 
lobes below or at any rate not above that of the tips of second lobes. A. fallax 
Ckll. and cocotis Newst. are the same. On palms and various other plants. 
West Indies, Demerara, Bourbon, Marquesas Islands, Laccadive Islands. 
Distinguished at once from nerii, to which it is closely allied, by the larger 
exuviae and the short median lobes not extending beyond the tips of the 
second lobes. The var. fallax, on mango in Antigua, shows the four pairs of 
lobes. (See Ent. Mo. Mag.. March, 1894, p. 57.) 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) epidondri Bouche. — Resembles nerii, but differs in the $ . On 
Epidendrum, Europe. (Signoret, Essai, 1869, p. 121.) Maskell reports it on 
Acacia in New Zealand. 
A. (Aspidiotus s.str.f) kennedyae Boisd. — Resembles nerii. On Kennedya. (Nomen 
seminudum.) 
A. (Aspidiotus s. str.) lataniae Sign. — 9 scale a little elongated, clear yellow, trans- 
lucid at center; exuvhe large. Median lobes large; four groups of ventral 
glands. On Latania. A hothouse species in Europe. Green reports it from 
Ceylon, but it is not certain that his insect is the true latania). 
