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Fig. 43. Box Scale, 
Pinnaspis buxi. Beng-th 
about one tenth inch. 
of box ( Buxus ) which had just been received from Holland, and 
on sago palm in greenhouses. It is a common European insect, 
and has been occasionally reported from the eastern United States, 
but never as a bad pest. The scale is elongate-ovate, being more 
or less pointed at one end and rounded at the other, about .1 inch 
in length, and brownish to blackish brown, with a paler exuvium 
at the pointed end. 
The Camellia Scale ( Fiorinia dormice Tzrg. — Uhleria camellia 
Comst.) has been recorded but once in Illinois, and then on the 
Kentia palm, but it has been reported from other places in the 
United States, as well as from Europe, Asia, and Australia, as a 
troublesome pest to Camellia *, Cycas *, Ficus*, and fern*. The 
scale is elongate, about .1 inch in length, with a central longitudi¬ 
nal ridge, and is yellowish brown, or darker. 
Aspidiotus cyanophylli Sign, is another of the rarer scales in¬ 
festing greenhouse plants in Illinois, where it has been found only 
on Kentia belmoreana. Other food plants are Cyanophyllum *, 
Ficus*, orchid*, and Cycas*. Like most of our other greenhouse 
scales, this species has a wide distribution, having been recorded 
from South, as well as North, America, as also from Europe, 
Ceylon, and Mauritius. The scale is circular, and pale brown or 
brownish yellow, with a central, or nearly central, yellowish ex¬ 
uvium, which is usually covered with a white secretion. 
The Latania Scale (As pidiotus latania Sign.=A. cydonice Comst.) 
is a tropical species, and of no economic importance in this state. 
It has once been collected here on crape myrtle, and has been re¬ 
ported as infesting orange* and Latania * in the Southern States. 
^Reported as a food plant, but not yet found infested in Illinois. 
