Insects injurious to fruits . 26 402 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. Fig. 413. No. 257.—The Barnacle cirripediformis Coiiistock. TliL color of this scale varies from grayish to light brown, divided by lines into regularsegments, as siiown at a inFig. 413, where one of thesescales is represented magni-fied. The enclosed insect issubglobular in form, and ofa dark reddish-brown color. The eggs are light reddishbrown, and rather long andslender; the larva is darkbrown, and very slender inform. It is at first activefor a brief period, then settlesin one spot, where it becomesstat
Insects injurious to fruits . 26 402 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. Fig. 413. No. 257.—The Barnacle cirripediformis Coiiistock. TliL color of this scale varies from grayish to light brown, divided by lines into regularsegments, as siiown at a inFig. 413, where one of thesescales is represented magni-fied. The enclosed insect issubglobular in form, and ofa dark reddish-brown color. The eggs are light reddishbrown, and rather long andslender; the larva is darkbrown, and very slender inform. It is at first activefor a brief period, then settlesin one spot, where it becomesstationary, and soon secretesover its body tufts of cottonyfilaments, which are finallycondensed to a waxy con-sistence, for nil ng part of thescale with w^hich the insect iscovered. This scale is found in sev-eral localities in Florida onboth orange and quince trees ;it is also found on a native plant, a species of No. 258.—The Florida Ceroplastes. Ceroplasles Floridensis scale is at first white; afterwards it becomes pink-ish, growing redder or brownish in the middle, dull whitetowards the edges, some specimens being irregularly mottledwith brownish and yellowish white, the top ornamented with INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ORANGE. 403 Fig. 414. lines and clots, as shown at b in Fig. 414. The eggs, whichoften number a hundred under a single scale, vary in color from yellow to lightreddish brown, andare nearly oval inform. The younglouse is of a simi-lar color, very ac-tive, and when firsthatched appears asshown in Fig. 415,where it is muchenlarged. It crawlsabout briskly forhalf an hour ormore, then settles Fig. 415.
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