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December 1E97.1 PSYCHE. 151
to that of femur, bristly :Jtilrsus a little less than & the length of tibia, bristly, tarsal digitules very long, slender, and knobbed ; claw medium size and slightly curved, digi- tules of claw slightly longer than clinv, and Second leg! x 100,
rather stout. See figure. Ann.! ring and lobes normal. Ovisac, about .; mm. long, a fluffy mass of cottony becretion in which the female often entirely buries herself. Eggs pale yellowish brown.
Male unknown.
Habitat, Andover, Mass., Oct. 20, 1896, in the nest of Lasins claviger Rog.
Coll. Geo.
B. King; collected again by Mr. King at
Methuen, Mass., Oct. 3, 1897, in nests of Lasius mnericanns Em., " completely con- cealed in ii round ball of cottony down, attached to roots of grass entering the ants' nest. under a stone" (King).
A sinking characteiistic of this species is that the antennae and femora hear numerous long, slender hairs and that the body also bears numerous long, slender hairs. The
relative lengths of the segments of the anten- nae are much more constant than is usual in ants' nest coccids.
THE LARVAE OF TWO SATURNIAKS.
BY HARRISON B. UYAK, WASHlSGTOX, D. C.
He~~zilez~cc; nemoegevi Hy. Edw. - Al-
most indisting~1ish:tble from the eastern H, maia except that the head is black. Upper row of spines (i) nith short shaft on joints 5-12, an unpnirecl dorsal spine on jointii 12 and 13 ; none on the anal plate; four rows of spines on joints 3 to 6 and 11, three on the other segments. Secondary hairs abun- dant, fine, white. Black, head shining;
body thickly covered with small yellow dots, approximate, subconfluent, centered by the secondaiy hairs. An indicated subdorsal, lateral and broader stigmatal yellow hands, showing as dots in the incisures which are mostly otherwise free from the yellow dots. Spines black, the basal ones on each shaft yellowish. Leg plate black; venter ft little reddish.
The yellow dots are less confluent than in (I blown example, Los Angeles Co., Cal.
bred by Koebele.
Coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.)
Agapemn galbinn\ Clemens. - Bgg.
El-
liptical, Battened above and below, ti little concave ; white, shagieenecl, covered all over with a brown gum, which causes the eggs to adhere to the twig and is applied irregularly, forming darker brown spots and streaks.
Size, 2.6 X 1.9 X 1.6 mm. Hatch by a hole in one end; laid in an irregular mass on a twig. (11. K. Morrison, Ariz., May sth, 1883; Coll. U. S. M.)
Stage I. Head rounded. black with white
setae; width I mm. Body black, without
secondary hairs, but with four rows on
thorax, three elsewhere of'low, scarcely pio- duced warts, each bearing several pale hairs mixed with some dark ones. Hairs stiff,
somewhat curved. Waits all paired, no
single doisnl one, the pair on the anal plate small and rudimentary. Tubercles of equal size, those on joints 4, 5, and 12 scarcely perceptibly larger; anal plate shining: skin H. inaici, being especially sparse in the in- " faintly transversely wrinkled; no markings; cisures, and the stigmatal band is reduced claspers of abdominal feet pale, but leg-plates and obsolete centrally on the segments. dark, shining. Length ;; mm.



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152 PSYCHE. [December 1897.
Lafg'e larva. Head 2.6 mm., rounded,
black, with many coarse white setae both primary and secondary; small, not as high is joint 2. Body cylindrical, uniform, feet normal. On thorax four tubercles, on abdo- men three on ciicli side of each segment, two onlyon the ninth abdominal, one on the tenth (anal plate), all paired, no median ones. Tubercle i on joints 4, 5, and 12 slightly prominent, the others rounded and about as long as wide, the lower row flat, indicated only by the hairs. They hear few stiff white hairs with black annulus. Skin rather
thickly covered with white secondary hnirs, less coarse than the primary ones, directed obliquely backward. Color black, a dorsal hand of yellow dots eacli centered by a sec- ondary hair, absent in the incisures; a white subdorsal line (below i) broken into dashes; a wavy substigmata1 white line; warts dxrk red. Many of the secondary haira arise from faiut whitish dots; leg plates reddish hlack. Pupa. Head piece with a. central ridge;
antenna cases large, strongly segmented; abdomen with three moveable incisurcs,
square, subfurcate at tip with two remote clusters of spines. Whole surface coarsely shagreened, the posterior dorsal edges of the abdominal segments also pitted. Color
bronzy brown, the incisures blackish. Length 23 mm., width 9 mm.
(Arizona, Koebcle collector, coll. U. S. N. M.)
A NEW LECANIUM ON SIAGNOLIA
FROM FLORIDA.
I. DESCRIPTIVE; BY T. D. A. COCKERELL,
N. M. AGR. EXP. STA,
Leraniufn titi'gidum, n. sp. -9 scale 5& rnm. long, 44 wide, 3s high.
Dark reddish-
brown, very bhiny, swollen into irregular pustule-like prominences, with large puncti- form depressions between.
9. Boiled in caustic soda, turns the liquid dark sepia, and gives a slight musky odor. Dermis chitinous, orange-brown, not reticu- lated, presenting numerous small gland spots. Marginal spines excessively minute. Mouth parts very small, rosLral loop very short Antennae very small, short and vcr? stout, bristly at tip, segmentation obscure. Legs. very small and stout. Coxa. considerably broader than long; femur very broad, and not much longer than broad; tibia and tarsus also extremely broad; tibia a little longer than tarsus, and aboutone fourth longer than broad. Claw short and stout, much curved. Digitules comparatively short, filiform. The embryonic larva is remarkable for the large mm-ginal spines, about 17 on each side. Hah. - On twigs of Magnolia &i'ncei,
April 22, 1897, at Lake City, Florida.
Quaintance No. 24). This species is unus- ually inturcsting, being intermediate between the subgenus Euleranium of the iiorth,
and the peculiar L. finrvicorue of Florida, which itself exhibits characters transitional to the southwestei-n subgenus Tuomeydlci. The depressions of L. tzqidum correspond to the pits ofå´pu~vf'cowe
I,. mugno/i~~ztna Ckll., found by MI-.
Ehrhorn on Mugnolia at S:in Jose, Cctlif., is quite different, being 8 mm. long, 4& wide, and 24 high, with 8-jointed antennae, formulii 3 (451) (28) 67 varying to 3 (41) 52 (86) 7. 11. BIOLOGICAL; BY A, L. (VfAISTAKCE
FLA. AGR. EXP. STA.
Lecaniwn ti~~,gidztm is quite common on
both Magnolia glauca and M gra-ndiflora
at Lake City, The young appear during
April in considerable numbers. These crawl out on the new wood and leaves of infested branches, frequently almost covering them. Proportionately few of these reach maturity, however, as they are attacked by a ni.n-nber of parasites. The life cycle appears to be about one year.




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