Archive image from page 97 of A descriptive catalogue of the. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia descriptivecatal02frog Year: 1915 92 SCIENCE BULLETIN. No. ly. Genus XXXV. Erinm, Crawford. Maskell and Crawford. Trativ. S. Zcaloinl vul. xxiv, ]>. 34. l«itl. Cockerell, Aitiericcni vol. xxxi, |i. .3!)0. ISDT. ('ockoTfdl. ('(nifiilirui Kiifoii/iilm/ist, vol. xxxi, p. 278. 180!). The specips upon which this genii's is founded was oiiguially collected br Mr. Crawford, of Adelaide, 8out]i Australia, who gave it the MS. name of En'tmi (/
Archive image from page 97 of A descriptive catalogue of the. A descriptive catalogue of the scale insects ('Coccidae') of Australia descriptivecatal02frog Year: 1915 92 SCIENCE BULLETIN. No. ly. Genus XXXV. Erinm, Crawford. Maskell and Crawford. Trativ. S. Zcaloinl vul. xxiv, ]>. 34. l«itl. Cockerell, Aitiericcni vol. xxxi, |i. .3!)0. ISDT. ('ockoTfdl. ('(nifiilirui Kiifoii/iilm/ist, vol. xxxi, p. 278. 180!). The specips upon which this genii's is founded was oiiguially collected br Mr. Crawford, of Adelaide, 8out]i Australia, who gave it the MS. name of En'tmi (/fobosiim. but did not describe it. Maskell, thougli somewhat doul)tful of its affinities, droi)ped Crawford's new genus and })laced it in the genus DadylopiKs. Cockerell, studying the species, took it as the type of Crawford's discarded genus, and included a munber of Mexican species. According to Newstead's description of Dactj/lopius hihermcus {Britisl Coccuke, vol. ii, |). 172), a rare species found upon grass, it probably comes into tliis In general fonu and structure the adult female is closely allied to that of the genus Dactylo'pius. the differences being that the joints of the antennae are more regular in form, with the last joint often distinctly rounded and of a uniforni shape. The legs are short and thickset. In most sjjecies the anal lobes are very small with a iuiinl)er of sjines of a lance-headed form. The whole of the epidermis covered with circular orifices, many short rod-like processes, and short s])ines or hairs. The adult female is com])letely enveloped in a mass of fine felted woolly filaments or mealy secretion, forming a c()m])lete sac protecting the female and larva-. En'iihi lievellcp, (Fig. 67.) ('lustering over the foliage of the desert cyjn-ess {FirneUa ) collected at Wagga-Dubbo. and other localities in the western parts of New South Wales, jirobalily ranging over a large area with its food-plant. this si)ecies was determined
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