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A. (Chrysomphahts) minor Berl. — 9 scale brown, convex, very little over 1 mm. dlam. 
9 yellow, three pairs of lobes, serrated plates; a couple of long plates laterad 
of third lobe, after the manner of dictyospermi; four small groups of ventral 
glands, not over 1 to a group. On leaves of Pandanus, in hort. Italy. (Kiv. 
Pat. Veget., IV, 340.) This seems to me to be identical with A. dictyospermi 
var. jamaicensis ; if not, it is at least extremely close to it. 
A. (Aspidiotus s.str.) myrsinae Sign. — Allied to nerii. On Myrsina ret usa in the hot- 
houses of the Luxembourg. 
A. (Aspidiotits s.str.) nerii Bouche*. — 9 scale flat, whitish; exuviae exposed, central 
or nearly so, dull orange yellow. 9 with three pairs of lobes, scale-like plates ; 
lour groups of ventral glands, caudolaterals about 7, eephalolaterals about 9. 
On oleander, Melia, Yucca, and a variety of other garden plants, very widely 
distributed, bat not universal; very rare in the West Indies, only once found, 
viz: On olive in the Botanic Gardens, Grenada. Elsewhere in the neotropical 
region. Lataste found it at Santiago, Chili, while it occurs in several localities 
in Mexico. It is common enough in the United states. Berlese appears to 
have demonstrated what was before suspected, that nerii is but a variety of 
A. hedercp. 
var. limonii Sign. — 9 with the end of the abdomen more elongated, and the plates 
larger, than in the type. Pound on lemons in Europe. Also in the Sandwich 
Islands. (Essai, 1869, p. 125.) 
A. (Asjndiotus 8. str.) palmarum Bouch6. — 9 scale white, circular; exuviae reddish- 
yellow. Grouped glands present. On palms. Europe. (Nomen seminudum.) 
A. {subg. t ) pandani Sign. — 2 scale blackish-brown, center whitish. Grouped glands 
present. On Pandanus utUis. (Essai, 1869, p. 131.) 
A. (Diaspidiotus) perniciosus Comst. — United States (Ala., Ariz., Cal., Del., Fla., Ga., 
Idaho, Iud., La.. Mass., Md., X..I.. N. V., N. M., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., Va., Wash- 
ington, \Y. Va.), British Columbia, Australia, Sandwich Islands. (For full 
particulars see Bull. 3, n. s., Div. Ent. The San Jose scale; by L. <). Howard 
and C. L. Marlatt.) 
A species perhaps allied to perniciosus, but possibly new, was found by Prof. C. H. 
T. Townsend on Fraxinus at Brownsville, Texas. The scales were attacked by 
some parasite, and it proved impossible to satisfactorily describe or figure the 
species. The scale is more convex than perniciosus, the exuviae are dark; the 
median lobes are quite elongated. 
A. (Aspidiotus s.str.t) phormii de Breme. — 9scalo white, circular; exuviae central. 
On Phormium ienox in Switzerland. (Sign ore t, Essai, 1869, p. 130.) 
A. (Hemibtrlesio) rapax Comst. — 9 scale convex, gray, appearing yellowish from tho 
contained insect; exuvhe toward one side, marked by a dark brown or black 
spot. 9 xvith one pair of large lobes; branched plates; no groups of ventral 
glands. On various trees, etc. ; nearly cosmopolitan. 
A. {Chrysomphalus) sphaerioides Ckll. — 9 scale circular, rather over 1 mm. diam. ; 
moderately convex; dark reddish-brown, with the part covering the exuvhe 
indicated by a pale raised ring; when rubbed the exuviae appear shining 
black. 9 with three pairs of lobes; tive groups of ventral glands, caudolat- 
erals, 3; eephalolaterals, 4; median, 3. Said to be on New Zealand ilax. 
Louisiana. 
A. (Aspidiotus 8.str.) spinosus Comst. — 9 scale circular, very light brown or dirty 
white; exuvhe central and covered. 4 groups of ventral glands, of not over 6 
each; median lobes prominent; plates more or less notched ; spines large. On 
camellia. Washington, D. C. 
A. (Aspidiotu8 s. 8tr.) vriesciae Sign. — Allied to nerii; scale more elongated, yellowish 
gray. On Vriescia splendens. 
A. (?) osmanthi Vallot, 1829, a white scale with central exuviae, found on Oleafra- 
grans, is at beat a nomen seminudum. 
