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Fig. 15. Asterochiton pittospori n. sp. Adult female: 
a , Antenna; b, wings. Adult male: c, Vasiform orifice 
and claspers; d, penis, lateral view. 
Aleurodes simplex Mask., 1890: 175-6, pi. 13, 
fig. 27; 1896: 441-2. 
Aleyrodes simplex Mask. Cockerell, 1902: 281; 
Kirkaldy, 1907: 69; Quaintance, 1908: 7. 
Dialeurodoides simplex (Mask.) Quaintance and 
Baker, 1914: 99- 
Asterochiton simplex (Mask.) Quaintance and 
Baker, 1915: xi. 
larva: Unknown. 
PUPAL CASE: (Fig. 16). Length 1.2 mm., 
width 0.90 mm. Colour white. Shape ellip- 
tical, flat. With a narrow fringe of white wax. 
Margin (Fig. lid) regularly crenulate, about 
12 crenulations per 0.10 mm. Thoracic tracheal 
folds present but faint. Tracheal pore (Fig. 
lib) invaginated with three or four irregular 
teeth at bottom. Abdominal tracheal fold, 
pore and comb (Fig. lie) similar to thoracic. 
Submarginal area not differentiated. Pos- 
terior marginal setae present. Four pairs of 
setae on cephalothorax. One pair of setae on 
each of first, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh 
abdominal segments. A pair of minute setae 
on 8th. Caudal setae same size as other ab- 
dominal setae. Vasiform orifice (Fig. lid) 
subtriangular, 0.021 mm. long, 0.019 mm. 
wide, floor reticulate. Operculum subtrian- 
gular 0.015 mm. wide, 0.009 mm. long, not 
filling half orifice. Lingula finger-like, rounded 
apically, slightly constricted basally. Caudal 
furrow absent. 
adult: Female, antennae (Fig. 18^) segment 
1, 0.02 mm. long; 2, 0.06 mm.; 3, 0.165 mm.; 
4, 0.03 mm.; remainder missing. Wings, 
Fig. 16. Asterochiton simplex Mask. Pupal case, dorsal. 
