On Insects from New Mexico. 333 XLIT. — Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station. — XI. New and little-known Insects from New Mexico. By T. D. A. COCKERELL. CoccidaB. Aspidiotus graminellus, sp. n. ? . — Scale slightly convex, about 1 millim. diam., white, with pale yellow exuvias, which are covered, and surmounted by a white boss. S . — Scale white, elongate, Diaspis-Viko, in outline, convex, shiny, not in the least keeled, with tlie wholly covered pale yellow exuvia at one end. ? . — Yellow ; after boiling in potash colourless, mouth-parts and caudal end remaining brown ; anal oriHce oval, about 21 (jb long and 36 fi from bases of median lobes ; dorsal glands comparatively tew, in four longitudinal rows on each side ; no circumgenital glands ; three pairs of lobes, the median ones largo, rounded, well apart j second and third lobes low and broad, the inner side perpendicular, the outer long and gently sloping, the apex rounded ; chitinous thick-enings at the bases of the lobes. Embryo in female about 280 jm long. Hah. On leaves of grass, producing purple blotches ; Las Vegas, N. M., Jan. 6, 1901 ; first found by Wilmatte P. Cockerell. The scale is quite after the manner of A. Gutierrezice, but the female insect is different. It differs from Gutierrez ice in the rounded, wide apart, median lobes, the much larger blunt second and third lobes, and the dorsal glands, which are few and in rows, instead of being numerous and scattered. The anal orifice in Gutierrez ice is scarcely 12 yu, long. Orihezia occidentalism Douglas. Beulah, N. M., March 1000; common on a very damp hillside. New to New Mexico. Antonina graminis, Parrott. Las Vegas, N. M. ; on grass, limestone-ledges by the Gallinas Kiver, Jan. 12, 1901 {IV. F. & T. I). A. CklL). New to New Mexico. Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. vii. 23
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