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NEW COCCIDS FROM KANSAS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Percy J. Parrott
Affiliation:
Manhattan, Kansas.

Extract

Antonina Nortoni, Parrott and Ckll.

Sac white, subglobular, cottonlike, completely enveloping female.

♀ oval, plump, cream-coloured, with slight tinge of brown on margin. Boiled in caustic potash, becomes transparent, with the exception of the antennae, the two pairs of spiracles, and ultimate segment, including anal region, which are a dark yellowish-brown. There are many single glands, especially towards and about posterior segments; they are less numerous anteriorly. On outer side of each spiracle there is a crescentic group of rather large circular glands, placed very close together. Antennae aborted, short, thick, composed of three segments measuring respectively 18–25, 13–16 and 27-28 mm. Mouth-parts large Spiracles chitinous, large and extended. Anal orifice circular, situated in a depression, surrounded by a strong chitinous ring. Anal ring with six long, stout hairs measuring from 53 to 89 mm. in length.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1899

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References

page 280 note * Insect Life, Vol. VII., 1894, p. 168.