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Psyche 8:350, 1897.

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PA- Yc'flx. [April 1@9.
? scab. 3 mm. long, 2 broadl 14 lo 2
high, ve1-y convex, very shiny, wrinkled ; light yellowish-brown or ochreo~~s, paler at the sides than dorsally. Thk is a vsy much pafer axle tIian~&h~i, and when boiled in caustic potash it becomesvery pale and trans- parent, while.fei!cAe~i remains dark brown. Atzi'e?d~~ne. Six-segmented, the scgments measuring a8 follo~vs in (I.) 34-51. (2.) 28-31, (3.) 42-45. (4.1 34. (5.) 23-31. 6) 34-42. Mi-. King reports a 7-segmented an- tenna, with the last LhiLce segments measur- ing respectivel~ 12, 16 and p. This agrees well enougl~ with ji'etcAcri, which r find always to have 7 segments, the last three 14-20, I+-17 and 39-42 p. There is also this in common with jcfche~z, that the second segment is shorter than the first or third. Legs. The diffe~qent legs me similar in
type, buk the tibiae and tarsi are variable. Fow legs measured gave as follo~vs- (p)
(4 6.1 (3-1 (4.)
Coxa. . . . . .
87.
85. 87. 85.
Femur+ trwhanter. , .
186.
116, 116, ~18.
Tibia. . . . . .
TIO.
76. 82. b8.
Tarsus-bclaw. . . .
65.
76, go. 79.
The first is an anterior leg. Thcse dimen- sions are very different from those of L. YefcAcyi, as will he seen by coinpnring the statistics given below.
A&emae. (p.) Segments. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6, 7. Mass. spu, 36. 3+ 45. 42. 20. 17. 42,
Canadian spn.
42, 31. 46. 37. 34. x4. 39.
Lep. (P.) Coxan Fe1n11r + Tibia. Tanus + troch, claw.
Mass.,spn. 113.
127. 8p 8.5.
Canadian; front leg.
56.
107. w. 8s.
" middle leg,
121.
~44. 96. 93.
'' hind kg.
qo.
141, 93. go.
r' hind kg. IZI.
130. 93. q5.
The front legs of jefcke~i appear thu~ to differ appreciably from the other four as regards the coxa find femur. Both coxa and femur of the middle and hind legs are notice- ably longer than in $alZk%w.
Lecaaitm pczZZidiov was fonnd hy Mr. King at Nethuen, Mass., Nov. 15, 1&3s1 on small twigs of Chum~wcj@at*is f&yoides (L). The leaves and s~nall limbs were thickly covered at that date with young larvae. The species belongs, of course, to Enlecanium.
TWO XEIV COCCIDS FROM
BERMUDA.
IN Januwy of this year, the writes in his search for coccids infesting green-ho~lse plants, observed a potted plant in one of the conservatories visited, trim~ned qnite close to its roots, and the remaining stunlps \+-ell covered with a small clear white scale. The plant in question wns recognized at once to be C'cm rcvoZt&~. Upon enquiry it was
learned that thic plant was imported from Bermuda last year. Some of the old stems with the cowids weye taken for stidy. One of the species proved to be A.v$idiofzt.q kede- 7we Vallot., a very coinmon species thro~igh the United States, and the other cowid was new to the writer, who sent a momt and
some of the scales to Prof. Cockerell for determination. He identifies it as AuZma.+ 9;s elegmas Leon, Described as lZozua?-dia elegous, and only known hitherto from
Pwiici It~dy, on Cycm ~evohtn. The 8
and 8 scale are ~~nknown. The species
differs from typical Adacaspis by lacking the circ~imgenitd glands. The occurrence of this species is of much interest nnd the coccids of Bermuda are almost unknown.
There are only txo other species known to the writer recorded from those isla~~cts,



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