. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . nd easily overlookedamong the scale-like plates. Plates not extending beyond lobes, scale-like, not separately distinguishable, but forming a continuous fringe,which rapidly narrows beyond the fourth lobe, and ceases before thedeep notch which indicates another segment, Margin cephalad offourth lobe distinctly serrate, serrations coarse. On Camellia japonica (in greenhouses). THE COCCIDAE OP CALIFORNIA. 213 Chrysomphalus aonidum Linn. (Florida Red Scale.) Scale of Female.—Ci
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California . nd easily overlookedamong the scale-like plates. Plates not extending beyond lobes, scale-like, not separately distinguishable, but forming a continuous fringe,which rapidly narrows beyond the fourth lobe, and ceases before thedeep notch which indicates another segment, Margin cephalad offourth lobe distinctly serrate, serrations coarse. On Camellia japonica (in greenhouses). THE COCCIDAE OP CALIFORNIA. 213 Chrysomphalus aonidum Linn. (Florida Red Scale.) Scale of Female.—Circular, moderately convex, smooth; dark oliva-ceous brown or reddish brown, paler at margin. Pellicles reddishyellow, always partially obscured by a layer of secretion, which isreddish brown above the first, and pale olivaceous above the secondpellicle. In the center of circular raised disk is usually exposed, thesecretionary covering being here worn off. In young specimens thecenter is covered by a raised patch of opaque white secretion. Thefirst pellicle convex above; the second often slightly concave; the form. FIG. 29. Chrysomphalus aonidum (Florida Red Scale). On orange , female, greatly enlarged. may best be observed from the inside of the scale, where the exuviae aremore fully exposed. Ventral scale obsolete. Diameter, 1 to 2 mm. The male puparium is dark brown, with pale gray margins. Pelliclereddish fulvous. Length, .8 mm. Adult Female.—Yellow, or white mottled with yellow. Body broadlyrounded in front, tapering suddenly to a point behind. On the marginof the mesal thorax is a small thickened patch bearing a stout thorn-like spine. Pygidium with six prominent lobes subequal in size, eachnotched on the lateral edge. At a short distance beyond the lobes thelateral margin is thickened and projecting, with minute serrations andtwo deep indentations. Plates deeply fringed; two in the mesal andfirst spaces, three in the second space, and three beyond the third lobe
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